August, 2020

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Leo learns from the community

Canadian Metalworking Magazine

Leo. We’re designing systems to protect against machine learning bias. In the wake of recent acts of extreme brutality and injustice and mass protests, we’re examining our role in perpetuating systems of inequality. We are responsible for our impact as a tech company, as a news reader, and, acutely, as a developer of machine learning algorithms for Leo, your AI research assistant.

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Supply Chain Resilience Report 2020 released

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

According to the Supply Chain Resilience Report 2020 from 3D Hubs, cybersecurity issues have affected less than 10% of firms over the past 10 years, compared with 60% that have suffered directly as a result of COVID-19 disruption.

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Insider Threats Increasing for Manufacturers

Manufacturers Alliance

The Ponemon “2020 Cost of Insider Threats: Global Report” finds that the average insider threat costs a manufacturing company $10.25 million per year. Part of the cost comes from the challenge in containment. The average insider threat incident takes 77 days to contain. With changing operations and many corporate employees working from the home office due to the COVID pandemic, threats continue to grow for manufacturers.

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Robotics in Manufacturing

Trimantec

Are you looking to enhance your existing line processes through robotic integration? If you are unsure where to begin your journey, start by reading here. Robots are changing the manufacturing industry and will continue to do so throughout the coming years. Many business owners are adopting automation processes within their production lines for numerous reasons. .

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Modernizing MES: A Guide for Complex Manufacturers Adapting to Industry 4.0

As engineers push the boundaries of innovation with groundbreaking hardware products, their success depends largely on the speed and efficiency of production. The challenge? Manual processes and disparate systems lead to multiple versions of documents, incomplete records, and duplicated work, creating a chaotic system of records that is difficult to manage.

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Reimaging robotics in a connected world

Universal Robots

The world is increasingly connected. Nearly 60% of the entire world population and more than 90% of the developed world is online.

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Manufacturing in a COVID-19 world

Martin Davis

A webinar for the JDI Roundtable on Manufacturing in conjunction with UNB. On May 11, the JDI Roundtable on Manufacturing Competitiveness hosted a webinar exploring how manufacturers can adapt their operations for a COVID-19 world and how they can prepare for changes that may come after the pandemic. Click the link below to see more … Continue reading Manufacturing in a COVID-19 world.

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Yamato turns to Doddle to create new nationwide PUDO network

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Japan-based carrier – Yamato Holdings Co., Ltd. (‘Yamato’) – has partnered with UK-based international ecommerce solutions provider, Doddle, to create a proprietary nationwide PUDO network, underpinned by Doddle’s software platform.

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Leo understands genes

Canadian Metalworking Magazine

Research genes and learn more about the latest breakthroughs more efficiently. Drug development is a highly competitive space and the information about gene innovations is scattered across multiples sources, which makes the gene scouting process time consuming and tedious. We are excited to announce that you can now prioritize genes with Leo, your AI research assistant.

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Leo understands diseases and conditions

Canadian Metalworking Magazine

Research diseases and learn about the latest breakthroughs more efficiently. The biopharma space has become more and more competitive and it is now extremely tedious to scan through hundreds of articles every day to track down all the latest scientific and technological breakthroughs about a specific disease or condition you are interested about. We’re excited to announce that you can now prioritize diseases and conditions with Leo, your AI research assistant.

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Leo understands biopharma companies

Canadian Metalworking Magazine

New Feature. Track your competitors efficiently. The biopharma space has become more and more competitive. It’s tedious to scan through hundreds of articles every day to track your competitors or find potential partnerships. We are excited to announce that you can now prioritize biopharma companies with Leo, your AI research assistant. TRY FEEDLY FOR BIOPHARMA.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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The Internet of Robotic Things: How IoT and robotics are evolving to benefit the supply chain

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

The Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) is a rapidly evolving technology. In just a few decades, industrial robots have become commonplace in factory settings across the world, and they only continue to gain popularity for their productivity and profitability.

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Find the content you need with Biopharma Search Mode

Canadian Metalworking Magazine

Save time and find the biopharma content you need. The amount of information published every day in the biopharma space is overwhelming and hard to skim through. Today we’re excited to announce the launch of Biopharma Search Mode , a tool that allows you to save time in your research flow. You can drill down into the specific content you want, beyond your existing feeds and sources.

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Feedly AI learns from the community

Canadian Metalworking Magazine

Leo We’re designing systems to protect against machine learning bias In the wake of recent acts of extreme brutality and injustice and mass protests, we’re examining our role in perpetuating systems of inequality. We are responsible for our impact as a tech company, as a news reader, and, acutely, as a developer of machine learning algorithms for Feedly AI.

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Containerised data centres: an evolution that deserves your attention

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Chris Wellfair, projects director at Secure I.T. Environments talks about how data centres are evolving with a new form factor perfect for the manufacturing and logistics sector.

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Mastering Digital Transformation: Your Guide to a Successful MES Implementation

70% of digital transformation projects fail (BCG, 2020). In an industry where most large software implementations falter, we recognize the importance of planning, optimization, and execution. With over 25 years of industry experience and countless successful implementations, MASS Group is opening the vault of tips and tricks to provide a complimentary step-by-step guide in implementing a Work-In-Progress (WIP) tracking software.

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Optimising e-commerce business for the new normal

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

The global COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly disrupted the retail sector significantly. With many stores forced to close their doors over lockdown, there has been a sudden and rapid rise in online shopping.

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Co-op automates supplier onboarding with adaptive supply chain technology from OpenText

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

OpenText has announced that Co-op Group, the UK-based grocery retailer, has automated supplier on-boarding for some of its suppliers with OpenText Trading Grid.

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Brits invest in high quality desk equipment as they gear up for permanent remote working

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

The impact of the lockdown on the livelihoods of Brits continues to be felt across the board, with many setting up a permanent office at home as they prepare to work remotely for longer, according to new data from commerce experience firm Bloomreach.

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Renovotec expands to meet growing demand for its managed print service

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Renovotec, the UK-based rugged hardware, software and services provider for supply chain companies, is expanding to meet escalating demand for its ‘Renovotec Managed Print’ service by opening a 50% larger service centre in Wellingborough, Northants. Renovotec Managed Print is the only service of its kind in the supply chain manufacturing and logistics industries says Renovotec.

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Future Focus: Constructing Unshakeable Stability in Your Manufacturing Supply Chain

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

We’ve all heard the buzzwords to describe new supply chain trends: resiliency, sustainability, AI, machine learning. But what do these really mean today? Over the past few years, manufacturing has had to adapt to and overcome a wide variety of supply chain trends and disruptions to stay as stable as possible. Stability has become key in this post-COVID world, and will remain key moving forward.

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Labelmaster survey examines impact of COVID-19 on hazmat supply chain

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Labelmaster, the provider of products, services and technology for the safe and compliant transport of dangerous goods (DG) and hazardous materials (hazmat), has announced the results of its fifth annual 2020 Global Dangerous Goods Confidence Outlook.

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How COVID-19 has impacted global supply chains

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

The impact of COVID-19 has been swift and devastating to those directly affected. Not just from a health perspective but also for businesses who had to promptly close their doors as the country went into lockdown, particularly those in hospitality and retail.

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Taking control of the B2B supply chain

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

More and more links in the value chain — especially retailers and wholesalers — are being forced to reposition themselves under pressure from both existing, yet evolving competitors and fast paced challenger brands with innovative approaches to technology and disruptive business models. B2B supply chain approaches now play an important role in future success.

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DSP acquires Explorer UK to create new managed services and database technology services group

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Enterprise IT managed services organisation DSP and Explorer UK, an Oracle consultancy, development and support provider, have been brought together to form one of the largest independent Oracle partners in the UK.

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A Low-Risk, Incremental Approach to Smart Manufacturing for Small & Medium Manufacturers

This guidebook discusses how small/medium manufacturers have implemented Smart Manufacturing initiatives and realized benefits such as increased productivity as well as higher levels of coordination and speed within the enterprise and supply chain.

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Retailers must prioritise secure and diverse payments for eCommerce success, says Kooomo

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

As the impact of COVID-19 continues to drive consumers and merchants online, there is a growing need for retailers to focus on securing and diversifying the existing digital payment methods of their online stores to ensure the checkout process is as safe and frictionless as possible.

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Xerox Adaptive CMYK+ Kit for Xerox Versant expands colour palette to more than a million

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Xerox has announced the Xerox Adaptive CMYK+ Kit for Xerox Versant, claimed to be the print market’s first adaptive technology kit that adds seven specialty colours to an existing production press, enabling instant digital print enhancements.

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Fujifilm selects Kinaxis RapidResponse for agility in its medical system supply chain

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Kinaxis Inc., the authority in driving agility for fast, confident decision-making in an unpredictable world, has announced that the medical systems division of FujifilmCorporation has selected Kinaxis RapidResponse to gain supply chain visibility across its global supply chain. Fujifilm has leveraged its advanced imaging and information technology to become a global presence for innovation in other industries including healthcare.

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Wipro and Uniper collaborate to implement a blockchain-based small-scale liquefied natural gas (ssLNG) trading/fulfilment platform

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Wipro Ltd, the global information technology, consulting, and business process services company, has announced the successful implementation of a blockchain-based small-scale liquefied natural gas (ssLNG) trading/fulfilment platform for Uniper Global Commodities SE and its 100% LNG-for-trucks subsidiary Liqvis GmbH. Uniper SE is an international energy company headquartered in Germany.

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Best Practices to Boost Marketing Efficiency while Decreasing Cost Per Sale

Speaker: Kristin Hess - Senior Product Marketing Manager, Drift; Will Lyon - Head of Vertical Marketing, 6sense

The past three years have forced nearly every industry to rethink their prospect and customer engagement strategy. But while we’ve all been thrust into digital transformation, we haven’t all made the transition efficiently. Now that we know digital selling is the new norm, how can we ensure our website is doing as much of the leg work as possible for us - even in the midst of economic challenges?

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94% of UK shoppers will walk from brands if they don’t agree with their response to COVID-19, Braze survey reveals

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Almost all (94%) UK shoppers warn they’d switch from a brand or company if they didn’t agree with their response to employees or customers during the pandemic, new research from customer engagement platform Braze reveals.

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The importance of upgrading inventory management practices to deal with supply chain challenges in 2020 and beyond

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Ecommerce businesses have had a tough time of late; firstly, there was the threat of a hard Brexit, and more recently the overwhelming impact of the coronavirus has been felt by all. Unfortunately, the future looks set to remain uncertain as Brexit looms, Covid-19 continues to cause disruption and global geopolitical and environmental threats remain.

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SEMI partners with GlobalFoundries to offer apprenticeship programme aimed at building the electronics talent pipeline

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

SEMI, the industry association serving the global electronics design and manufacturing supply chain, has launched a new collaborative apprenticeship programme to make it easier for companies to offer training and for more workers to pursue careers in electronics.

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Adaptation, Business Continuity & Cobots: Packaging and Palletizing

Universal Robots

This is the third in a series of blog posts exploring the many ways in which cobots support adaptation and business continuity in uncertain times. Each post focuses on a popular application for cobots --from Quality Inspection to Welding-- and shows how cobots enable flexible automation deployments for companies of all sizes.

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5 Ways New Manufacturing Companies Are Accelerating Innovation

Next-gen manufacturers are redesigning factories to enable agility at every stage of production. From more timely communication between engineers and technicians to technologies that empower real-time collaboration, they’re getting ahead by making iterations and improvements during a build, across the production line at scale. This level of flexibility means they can develop more quickly than their legacy counterparts.