Sat.Sep 16, 2017 - Fri.Sep 22, 2017

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E-Commerce Growth Drives Collaborative Innovation in Automated Bin-Picking and Packaging

Universal Robots

Online sales show no sign of slowing and the growth is driving demand for fulfillment operations to pack and ship all those ordered goods. The work is repetitive, however, and requires high accuracy to reduce costly errors or returns. That means that jobs in picking and packaging items for shipping aren’t particularly desirable.

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IPCortex launch of CRM Connect delivers new contextual communications opportunity to the channel

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

British communications software developer IPCortex has unveiled CRM Connect, a product designed to boost customer engagement with contextual communications.

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Robots, Cobots and Human labor

Universal Robots

Robots have long been romanticized in art and popular culture. From HALL 9000 and the Terminator series where they are seen as a menace to humanity, from Star Wars or WALL-E where they are benevolent and even heroic, robots can be portrayed both positively and negatively. Today, robots populate real factories, warehouses.

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Digital Supply Chain Conference 2018

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Adapting to a Digital World - Agile, Collaborative and Innovative Supply Chain Management

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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.