November, 2020

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Seven Keys to Logistics Success for Direct-to-Consumer Manufacturers

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

By Dipti Gupta,Logistyx Technologies. In recent years, manufacturers have been profoundly impacted by increased customer demand for delivery speed and precision, increased competition, and the growth of ecommerce platforms. Many have begun to explore a direct-to-consumer sales approach to better navigate an increasingly complex environment.

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From Technology Pioneer to Customer Advocate: A discussion with UR President Jürgen von Hollen

Universal Robots

With nearly 50,000 cobots sold worldwide, Universal Robots is a very different company today than the innovative upstart that pioneered a new approach to automation 15 years ago.

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Solid State Relays: 3 Reasons to Make the Switch

Trimantec

Table of Contents: What is a Relay? What is an Electromechanical Relay. What is a Solid State Relay? Electromechanical Relays vs Solid State Relay? Types of Solid State Relays. What is a Relay? Relays were first used in long-distance telegraph circuits as amplifiers back in the 1800s. They repeated the signal coming in on one circuit and re-transmitted it on another circuit.

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WHAT IS PLC PROGRAMMING?

CadCam Guru

The PLC programming means designing and implementing control sequence depending on need of application. A PLC program consists of a set of instructions , which represents the logic. This logic is to be implemented for specific industrial real time applications. A PLC programming software allows entry and development of user application code. It can be downloaded to the PLC hardware.

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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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EMC: The Future of Manufacturing

Martin Davis

What is the future of Manufacturing? Is it all about advanced manufacturing, digitisation, technology and automation? Many would argue that it is encapsulated in the fourth industrial revolution as defined by Industry 4.0, which describes how industry should be evolving to deliver improved productivity, capability and performance. If you are thinking that Industry 4.0 is … Continue reading EMC: The Future of Manufacturing.

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Cobot Applications

Universal Robots

Industrial robot applications have seen massive growth over the last decade, as a variety of industries have realized the potential of industrial robots and, more importantly, collaborative robot (or ‘cobots.’). The vast majority of cobot implementations are found in manufacturing and industrial environments, but cobots have the flexibility to be used in a wide variety of sectors from agriculture and medical to pharma.

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Technology and Automation

Universal Robots

Since the introduction of robots on the GM line in the early 1960s, the world has seen a revolution in automated manufacturing. While the entire industrial robot sector has seen growth over that time, the most exciting and fastest growing segment belongs to collaborative robots (or ‘cobots’). Cobots are growing in popularity due to their flexibility, safety, small footprint, rapid ROI, low TCO and user-friendliness.

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SPONSORED AUTOMATION PROJECTS

CadCam Guru

Why Projects are important in Engineering? As an engineer for first 3 years we learn basics Of design & technology. In the Projects we are supposed to use all our knowledge and technical skills. In leading global Universities the final year engineering project is combined with industry internship. Industry standard B.E. Project with Internship can open doors to Good Jobs or P.G. in Technical field.

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6 Examples of Industrial Robots in the Automotive Industry

Universal Robots

The automotive industry has been using industrial robots for more than half a century, since General Motors first adopted the UNIMATE in the early 1960s. Over the intervening period, the number of robots used in the automation sector has seen massive growth. The technology has improved too with more low cost, flexible, collaborative systems supplementing and replacing cumbersome and inflexible traditional robots.

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Renovotec launches seasonal campaign with mobile device rental and purchase discounts

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Renovotec, the UK-based rugged hardware, software and services provider for supply chain companies is launching a seasonal November 2020 to end February 2021 campaign featuring rental and purchase discounts on leading handheld and vehicle-mounted mobile warehouse devices, as well as a special offer on Renovotec’s remote network monitoring service.

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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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Campaign launches to encourage more women into supply chain and logistics roles

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Recruitment platform, Monster, is appealing for more women to consider roles in the logistics, transportation and supply chain industry following a surge in the number of job vacancies available in the sector.

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Teradyne drives supply chain innovation and growth with Kinaxis

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Kinaxis Inc., the authority in driving agility for fast, confident decision-making in an unpredictable world, is celebrating 25 years of working with Teradyne, an industrial automation solution provider, to enable end-to-end supply chain visibility, drive integration and collaboration across internal departments and external suppliers and accelerate strategic initiatives like M&A.

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Brits slash Christmas shopping budgets by 6%

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

The global pandemic has impacted nearly every aspect of our lives this year, including Britons' Christmas shopping budgets, according to research by the Fashion Retail Academy.

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Hope for the high-street: over 60% of online shoppers will return

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Recent research conducted by YouGov on behalf of Manhattan Associates (supply chain and omnichannel commerce experts), shows that the fate of the Great British high street is not as bleak as some might have thought.

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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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Tis the season for a customer database health check

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

By Barley Laing, UK Managing Director at Melissa. With the festive ads of big retailers hitting our screens and Black Friday not far away, the busiest trading period of the year is getting into full swing.

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Ivanti Wavelink enhances printer management capabilities for the supply chain

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Ivanti Wavelink, the supply chain business unit of Ivanti, has announced Ivanti Wavelink Avalanche now offers several new management and discovery capabilities for Zebra’s ruggedised thermal and barcode printers for the supply chain.

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BICS and Gurtam partner to drive IoT asset monitoring and fleet management in 200+ countries worldwide

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

International communications enabler BICS has entered into a partnership with telematics software provider Gurtam to provide IoT asset monitoring and fleet management on a global scale.

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PCS Software acquires transportation management system, UltraShipTMS

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

PCS Software (PCS), the transportation management platform provider for the inland trucking industry, has acquired UltraShipTMS.

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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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What is a Wire Harness? | Wire Harness Assemblies 101

Trimantec

Table of Contents: What is a Wire Harness. Wire Harness Assembly. Wire Harness Design and Pre-Production. Wire Harness Manufacturing/Assembly Process. Why Are Wire Harnesses Assembled Manually and Post Production Wire Testing. . . What is a Wire Harness? A wire harness, often referred to as a cable harness or wiring assembly, is a systematic and integrated arrangement of cables within an insulated material.

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