June, 2017

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Bridging the complexity gap

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

By Stephen Hardy, Managing Director, FPX Ltd. The business-to-business (B2B) sales ecosystem is an inherently complex space which presents challenges to manufacturers. Regardless of what you sell, how you sell it, and who you're selling to, there are numerous obstacles to ensuring the right product gets to the right customer at the right price via the customer's preferred channel.

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Pioneering Universal Robots+ Ecosystem Earns Praise from Industry Experts and Developers

Universal Robots

Universal Robots+ is a unique online platform that is making UR robots even easier to implement, with exciting new opportunities for developers and more powerful capabilities for end-users and distributors. UR+ consists of two critical elements: online Showroom and Support & Marketing Platform. Aggressive growth of the UR+.

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The Cloud offers distributors a silver lining for managing product information

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

By Colin Wells, Pimberly. Consumers have more choice and make greater demands than ever before. More products, more channels through which to buy them, more ways to take delivery. But as distributors, more choice means more complexity and more data to manage.

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France should look to robotics

Universal Robots

An initiative dedicated to speed up the adoption of industrial robots in France is Innorobo, an exhibition that took place at the Docks of Paris, May 16-18. During these three days, industry professionals and people with an interest in robotics were able to meet and exchange knowledge around the latest innovations and products.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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KLM to optimise flight simulator capacity with Quintiq

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Quintiq, a Dassault Systèmes brand and supply chain planning and optimisation (SCP&O) solutions provider, has announced its partnership extension with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) to optimize the airline's flight simulator capacity.

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DynaSys Best Practices Webinars

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

DynaSys Webinars with the Experts Manufacturers of consumer goods deliver the right product, in good quantity, at the right cost, in the right place, at the right time.

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Supply chain solution provider FuturMaster appoints new sales execs in Europe

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

FuturMaster, the supply chain solution provider that helps a number of major food, retail and manufacturing companies with demand forecasting and streamlining production and supply, continues its international expansion with the opening of a new Northern Europe operation, located in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

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Aviall signs multi-year consumables and expendables parts supply chain programme agreement with Etihad Airways Engineering

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Boeing has announced, through its subsidiary Aviall, a multi-year consumables and expendables aircraft parts supply chain programme agreement with Etihad Airways Engineering.

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Ideal Shopping Direct deploys Route Genie to drive growth and boost customer experience

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Ideal Shopping Direct, the multi-channel home shopping retailer, has signed a five-year contract to deploy Route Genie, the advanced carrier management software, to help facilitate the next stage of its growth across the UK and overseas.

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'Building the Store of the Future' – exclusive free report written by Store X Summit

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Traditional bricks and mortar retailers are under siege as consumers warmly embrace the Internet shopping experience. Learn more here.

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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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SafetyChain Software to participate in Food Safety Supply Chain Conference in Rockville, MD

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

SafetyChain Software, the developer of real-time food safety & quality management solutions that help companies reduce risk, control costs, and ensure compliance, is participating the Food Safety Supply Chain Conference, taking place June 5-6 in Rockville, MD at US Pharmacopeial Convention.

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Connectedness and the supply chain at the heart of business success

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

As businesses increasingly look to establish a foothold in the European market, the ability to have fast, efficient and reliable access to Europe's more than 500 million consumers is seen as critical to a business's commercial success.

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From Sales & Operations Planning to Integrated Business Leadership

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

By Richard Watkins, managing director, Delos Partnership. I was talking to a planning manager from a company the other day, who said to me "We have an SOP process, but I have read all these articles about Integrated Business Planning, and was wondering what the difference was, and should we be doing something different?

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Cobots from Universal Robots solve complex task for Bayer, winning Grants4Tech robotics challenge

Universal Robots

Pharmaceutical multinational Bayer was looking for solutions to automate a highly complex process currently performed entirely by hand: quality control of powder samples taken from sealed bags inside specific containers, an operation carried out hundreds of times a day in Bayer plants. The German company launched a worldwide.

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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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DynaSys Best Practices Webinars

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

DynaSys Webinars with the Experts Manufacturers of consumer goods deliver the right product, in good quantity, at the right cost, in the right place, at the right time.

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'Building the Store of the Future' – exclusive free report written by Store X Summit

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Traditional bricks and mortar retailers are under siege as consumers warmly embrace the Internet shopping experience. Learn more here.

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Support for domestic supply chains critical to manufacturing post-Brexit

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

A key part of the government's industrial strategy should be a fund to support UK manufacturing supply chains to offset the impact of any new trade barriers that arise from leaving the single market, a new Civitas report argues.