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Ottawa is increasing its ‘friendshoring’ focus to improve supply chains: analysts

Canadian Manufacturing

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen coined the term “friendshoring” a year ago, saying allies should rely on each other to make supply chains more resilient, and defang hostile actors from taxing or withholding goods. He said that question is coming up for electronics and will likely affect pharmaceuticals, too.

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Mushiny Intelligent 3D Sorter receives RBR50 award for logistics innovation

Robotics Business Review

3D Sorter pioneers efficiency, flexibility Mushiny has publicly shown that its Intelligent 3D Sorter can overcome sorting challenges beyond the capabilities of traditional methods, including handling spikes in business, sorting soft goods, documentation, fragile items such as books, and traceable pharmaceuticals and food.

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Is your business ready to comply with the European Union’s digital product passport legislation?

Manufacturer's Monthly

As a result, we should see an elevated level of transparency and sustainability throughout supply chains. Though your team and supply chain partners make every effort to maintain the proper temperature, humidity and more in every production, storage and transport environment, how do you know for sure there hasn’t been a deviation?

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What is High-Tech Manufacturing?

ATS

Contamination must be excluded, and documentation and record-keeping are often mandatory. Pharmaceuticals : Product, much of which is made in high volumes, must be extremely consistent and free from contamination. A high-tech factory challenges the maintenance function. This blog answers the question, “What is high-tech manufacturing?”

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Food & Beverage Condition Monitoring & Predictive Maintenance

ATS

This mandates documentation along with equipment cleanliness. Using predictive maintenance to improve food & beverage supply chain For food and beverage manufacturers , the opportunity to anticipate potential points of failure goes beyond the production machinery.

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How automation storage and retrieval systems will shape the future of distribution operations

Control Engineering

Next, inventory security is critical, especially in industries like pharmaceuticals — robotic technologies, including AS/RS, solve these challenges. Networking safety devices via EtherCAT helps us establish a central command center, streamlines documentation and allows customers to reconfigure or expand systems with ease.

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Automation mergers, acquisitions, capital markets analysis: May 2023

Control Engineering

5/17/23 SWAPP, a Houston- and Tel Aviv-based automation software provider for architectural construction documents, raised $11.5 the leader in supply chain efficiency, accuracy, and connectivity, acquired Procensis, Inc., Learn more. million in Series A funding. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.