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The Future of Smart Supply Chain with Industry 4.0

ATS

Smart procurement and warehousing: Sensor technology and data analytics can work hand-in-hand with AI and machine learning processes to enable smart procurement and warehousing — the practice of monitoring and analyzing inventory, ordering, fulfillment, and vendors in real-time and making decisions based on current scenarios and information.

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ProMat 2023: Intralogistics, software and motion in focus

Control Engineering

Warehousing, distribution center insights A material handling focus can help manufacturers, distribution centers and warehouses, as Siemens explained at ProMat 2023. Closed-loop digitalization uses data from the real world to create accurate simulations and find and resolve any bottlenecks in design.

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How to overcome obstacles to industrial data analytics

Control Engineering

Laurie Cavanaugh, director of business development, E Tech Group , and Matt Ruth, president of Avanceon , explain data analytic bottlenecks and how to overcome them in this partial transcript from the April 21, 2022, RCEP PDH webcast (archived for 1 year), “ Just enough industrial data analysis? The final barrier is data warehousing.

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Syncron Applauded by Frost & Sullivan for Enabling Pricing Intelligence and Visibility for OEMs, Dealers, and Distributor Supply Chains With Its SaaS Solutions

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

The Service Go-to-Market price solution provides an automated part pricing system that maximizes revenue for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), Tier I suppliers, warehousing, and retailers.

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Reducing Prep Work With Precision Blanks

Modern Machine Shop

Keeping the workpieces in a production line as similar as possible is vital, as variances in dimensions can lead to machining errors or automation failures. But squaring blanks can also be a bottleneck that demands valuable machining time and slows down throughput. Heavily automated machine cells can see especially good results. .

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Supply Chain Chaos: How Companies Are Responding and Adapting to the New Reality

21st Century Tech

But when we ordered a sofa trundle bed we ran up against a supply chain bottleneck. Recently, the CBS news program, 60 Minutes , ran a piece describing the very problem with global supply chain bottlenecks in the port of Los Angeles that likely had befouled our sofabed purchase. We repainted. No problem. We then ordered it.

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Back In Action: An MCMT Special

Dinesh Mishra

Ltd: The CHIRON Group is the proprietor of the CHIRON, STAMA, and FACTORY5 brands for new machines, as well as the automation brand GREIDENWEIS, CMS for refurbishment, and HSTEC for motor spindles and fixtures. At present we see good demand in the fields of automation, 5-axis machines and Industry 4.0 technologies.