December, 2019

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Leo and Topics

Canadian Metalworking Magazine

Leo lets you track specific topics, companies, and keywords in your feeds. Broad business and tech publications produce hundreds of articles per week. Not all those articles are relevant to the topics, companies, or products you care about. Manually filtering out the noise can be overwhelming and time-consuming. Relevance is a problem we are very passionate about.

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Simplify Robot Programming with G-code

Universal Robots

Many of our customers have expressed a strong interest in using our cobots to automate process applications, such as dispensing, gluing, deburring, polishing, sewing, etc. You spoke, and we listened. We first added the Remote TCP (tool center point) feature in Polyscope 5.4, which enables our robots to move at a constant speed.

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South African ICT Company Connor Data Breach Exposes User Activity and Personal Identifiable Information Data– Including Browsing History of Pornography

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Led by cybersecurity analysts Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, vpnMentor`s research team discovered a data breach in a database belonging to South Africa ICT company, Conor. The breached database contained daily logs of user activity by customers of ISPs using web filtering software built by Conor.

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Leo and Summarization

Canadian Metalworking Magazine

Reading through a large number of articles every day can be time-consuming, especially if those articles are long. Helping you save time is a problem we are very passionate about, so we are excited to release today a new Leo skill called Summarization. We have taught Leo to read and summarize the articles in your feeds so that you can more efficiently scan through articles and determine which ones are relevant.

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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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Feedly AI and Summarization

Canadian Metalworking Magazine

Ask Leo to read the articles in your feeds and highlight crucial sentences Reading through a large number of articles every day can be time-consuming, especially if those articles are long. Helping you save time is a problem we are very passionate about, so we are excited to release today a new Feedly AI feature called Summarization. We have taught Feedly AI to read and summarize the articles in your feeds so that you can more efficiently scan through articles and determine which ones are releva

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Feedly AI and Topics

Canadian Metalworking Magazine

Feedly aI lets you track specific topics, companies, and keywords in your feeds Broad business and tech publications produce hundreds of articles per week. Not all those articles are relevant to the topics, companies, or products you care about. Manually filtering out the noise can be overwhelming and time-consuming. Relevance is a problem we are very passionate about.

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The 3 Biggest Business Challenges of Digital Transformation

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

By Jamie Hinton, CEO at Razor Ltd The world has gone digital, there’s no denying this. Everyone has a smartphone these days, and they use them for everything, from making decisions to finding brands to buy from or learn more about a product or service.

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The future of supply chain and logistics: Descartes presents advice to industry professionals

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

On 7th November 2019 Descartes Systems UK welcomed over 100 logistics professionals to its UK Customer and Partner event.

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Experts create clean cold research hub to meet global challenge

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Led by UK Universities, multi-disciplinary researchers from around the globe are joining forces in an innovative new research centre aimed at speeding up the use of radical new cooling solution to help small-holder farmers, medicine suppliers and others make the most of clean and sustainable chilled distribution systems.

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How is the B2B buying process evolving?

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

By Michiel Schipperus, CEO at Sana Commerce The way B2B buyers conduct business has changed significantly over the last five years. Advances in ERP technology and supply chain management software have enabled manufacturers to underpin process innovation with real-time insights, driving improvements in supplier management and buying efficiencies.

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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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What to watch out for in e-commerce in 2020: Key trends for the next 12 months according to Arno Ham, CTO at Sana Commerce

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

The B2B e-commerce sector is forecast to hit a whopping £5.2 billion by 2020, reports find. This ever-changing market has led many businesses to trade in their traditional ways of operating in exchange for innovative online methods in order to maintain their competitive edge.

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Nearly four-fifths of commerce leaders excited and ‘ready’ for the future of commerce

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Amidst an uncertain and challenging landscape, commerce chiefs across the board are presenting a positive front; nearly four-fifths (79%) of digital commerce leaders feel ready to take advantage of the opportunities digital commerce has to offer, according to a study from Wunderman Thompson Commerce.

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Retailers are raising the bar with sustainability efforts, but is it enough?

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

By Helen Willmott, Product Manager - Compliance, EMEA, Adjuno. Sustainability is an important issue for all retailers and many are making great strides in minimising waste, reducing the use of plastic and improving their packaging to make it more environmentally friendly.

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Saving the world from plastic waste comes one step closer

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Finnish startup Sulapac raised an exceptional €15 million to engine its scale-up and internationalisation. The funding enables further development and broadening of its recipe portfolio. The investors include the world’s leading luxury house Chanel and international media houses, all with valuable expertise to accelerate Sulapac’s expansion.

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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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FHL Cloud Solutions follows 30 per cent year-on-year growth in last five years with investment in new UK & international service facility

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Cheshire-based consultancy builds 32,000 sq. ft. consultancy hub to capitalise on mid-market companies’ plans for digital transformation.The new facility will help meet growing demand from mid-market UK companies for FHL’s expert consultancy and integration services as they increasingly look to digitally transform many of their core business and finance and reporting processes.

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How UK businesses can get to grips with rising supply chain risk

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

By Alex Saric, smart procurement expert, Ivalua. UK businesses have never been more dependent on their suppliers to help them deliver goods and services to their customers. Be it retail, manufacturing or financial services, suppliers have a vital role to play when it comes to innovation and meeting customer expectations. However, as supply chains become increasingly global, businesses are potentially exposing themselves to more risk than ever before.

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Festive season blind spot

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

By: Robert Byrne, VP Supply Chain Solutions at E2open. The festive season is the season for stuffing. Turkeys with delicious fillings, socks above the fireplace with presents and warehouses with enough stock to meet customer demand during this peak shopping time.

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UK retailers to regain £7.23 million each year by going cashless

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Analysing the annual revenue of the UK retailers with the fastest profit growth reveals a total potential recovery of £7.232 million each year as a result of refusing cash payments.

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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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ThoughtWorks finds retail sector most vulnerable to tech threats post Brexit

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Retail is the sector where UK businesses are most likely to feel exposed to a series of threats to business growth in 2020.

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Paragon launches on the Geotab marketplace to give fleet managers increased visibility and control of routing process

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Paragon Software Systems has launched its route optimisation software on the Geotab Marketplace.

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QAD DynaSys Announces the Release of DSCP 2019

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

The latest demand and supply chain planning software features a new intuitive web planning experience, collaborative planning process controls and is powered by artificial intelligence and advanced supply chain analytics

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LLamasoft opens new EMEA headquarters to support continued growth

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

LLamasoft, the provider of AI-enabled enterprise supply chain design and decision-making solutions, has announced that the official opening of its new EMEA headquarters in Birmingham took place on Tuesday 26th November. Guest of Honour, Lord Digby Jones, a non-aligned Peer in the UK House of Lords, international businessman, media commentator, TV presenter, author and public speaker addressed the attendees.

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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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Acne Studios chooses payments company Adyen to deliver a first-class experience for shoppers globally

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

The Stockholm-based luxury fashion house Acne Studios has chosen payments tech company Adyen to deliver a first-class shopping experience for customers in APAC, North America and Europe – including its stores in the UK.

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Supply Chain Event - From Demand Planning to S&OP to IBP: Lessons from the front line

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

This Supply Chain Event is a free educational morning dedicated to leading manufacturers who want to review best practices and lessons from the front line to implementing S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning) and IBP (Integrated Business Planning).

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parcelLab wins innovation award at global supply chain summit

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Munich and London-based post-purchase e-commerce communication specialist parcelLab was recently presented with the Smart Solution Award at annual international supply chain summit Exchainge 2019.

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TrueCommerce integrated EDI for NetSuite ERP helps Pearhead do business in every direction and achieve 91% Amazon ASN on-time score

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Founded in 1999, Pearhead is a global lifestyle and gift brand with over 800 products in the baby, pet and wedding categories. Its products are currently sold in over 1,000 stores in 13 countries, as well as through online marketplaces and its own branded web store.

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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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Uncertainty continues to impact supply chain risk, finds Dun & Bradstreet and Cranfield University

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

The ongoing uncertainty around Brexit is encouraging many manufacturers and retailers to consider other supplier locations in low cost, higher risk countries to avoid possible trade barriers. The latest analysis in the Global Supply Chain Risk Report, produced quarterly by Cranfield University and Dun & Bradstreet, found marked increases in Supplier Criticality (up 2%) and Global Sourcing Risk (up 4.8%) in Q3 2019.