August, 2019

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Digital deliveries

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

By Mattan David, Supply Chain and IoT Director, Polymer Logistics. Sensor-equipped pallets and roll cages can provide highly accurate location, temperature and humidity data, meaning that products reach retailers at the right time and in perfect condition. Polymer Logistics explains how these Internet of Things-enabled technologies are creating the smarter supply chains of tomorrow.

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How to Choose the Best Robotic Gripper for your work?

Universal Robots

Robotic gripper technology empowers robot arms to interact with objects, as well as the environment around them. Depending on the type of gripper you choose to deploy, you’ll enjoy the benefits of extreme precision and delicate handling of complex and/or fragile objects.

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Meet the New Feedly Dark Theme and Navigation Bar

Canadian Metalworking Magazine

We’re excited to launch a new version of the Feedly Web UI that improves the navigation and adds support for a cool dark theme. Here’s a quick demo of the new Feedly dark theme and left navigation bar updates: More visible Add Content (+). The profile and add content are now more visible in a left band. Team users will also be able to more easily add new teammates and share feeds and boards.

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Trimantec is ISO 9001:2015 QMS Certified

Trimantec

Winston-Salem, N.C., August 27, 2019—Trimantec, a specialist in providing manufacturing solutions, announces they are ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System (QMS) certified. Trimantec’s Engineered Solutions and Electromechanical Manufacturing groups underwent the validation process and were awarded the ISO 9001:2015 QMS certification based on the following scope: design, manufacturing, fabrication, and assembly of electromechanical and machined components.

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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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move the part not the tool

Universal Robots

In many process applications such as gluing, deburring, sewing, etc. It is often easier to pick up the part with the robot and move it at a constant speed around a fixed tool such as a deburring tool, polishing wheel, etc. Picking up a sanding belt at the end of a robot and moving it around isn't very convenient after all.

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When Inspection is Mission-Critical, Get a Cobot

Universal Robots

When operators look at thousands of parts a day, they sometimes become “snow-blind” to defects. But that never happens to robots.” Operations manager at Zippertubing in Arizona, USA, Tim Mead, describes in an interview with The New York Times how his UR5 cobot now tends the snap-set machines that add thermal wrap around hoses.

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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machinery Systems maximises product uptime with Syncron

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Syncron has announced that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machinery Systems, Ltd. (MHI MS) has selected Syncron Inventory to optimise service parts inventory management for its industrial printing and paper converting machinery.

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How can food stockpiling be managed amid a no-deal Brexit?

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Following news that Domino’s Pizza Group has spent £7m stockpiling ingredients in preparation of a no-deal Brexit, companies across the supply chain are facing the challenge of finding additional storage and cooling solutions to cope with demand.

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TU Berlin and 4flow develop multiscale data structures and algorithms for supply chain planning

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

How can very large networks be designed more intelligently and efficiently? 4flow, a provider of supply chain consulting, software, and 4PL services, collaborated with the Combinatorial Optimization & Graph Algorithms Group (COGA) at the Technical University of Berlin in Germany in order to answer this question.

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QAD DynaSys recognised as a challenger in Gartner 2019 Magic Quadrant for Sales and Operations Planning Systems of Differentiation

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

QAD DynaSys, provider of demand and supply chain planning solutions, has announced that Gartner, Inc. has named QAD DynaSys a Challenger in Gartner’s May 2019 Magic Quadrant for Sales and Operations Planning Systems of Differentiation. QAD DynaSys is a division of QAD Inc.

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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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Supply chain impact: Trumps tariff warning rocks global markets

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

By Slimane Allab, EMEA General Manager and SVP, LLamasoft. The ongoing US/China trade war affects businesses’ supply chains in a variety of ways and not just in terms of increased taxes and tariffs.