Manufacturing & Logistics IT
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
By Michele Dupré, group vice president of retail, hospitality and distribution for Verizon. While summer may still be top of mind for consumers, the retail industry is laser-focused on preparing for the 2016 Christmas season.
Universal Robots
DECEMBER 20, 2016
Robots aren’t just for big manufacturers anymore. And they’re not just for companies with deep technical staff or deep pockets. Today’s cobots are attracting interest from all sizes of companies, all over the world—many with no automation experience at all. The business drivers for cobots are compelling as highlighted in.
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Manufacturers Alliance
NOVEMBER 2, 2016
While the events most often planned for are site- or natural disaster–related, businesses should also include workplace violence, terrorism, and cyberattacks in their business preparedness efforts. This is especially true given the nature of black swan events as those that (1) take place outside of regular expectations, (2) carry an extreme impact, and (3) seem obvious, explainable, and predictable in hindsight.
NIST Manufacturing
FEBRUARY 19, 2016
GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The U.S.
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.
Manufacturing & Logistics IT
OCTOBER 20, 2016
Rising customer demands, increasing complexities and an ever-growing army of competitors – no industry is safe from the challenges of modern business. A new guide from Zebra Technologies outlines how, with the right technologies and the right approach, you can overcome the hurdles and build a factory of the future.
Manufacturing & Logistics IT
NOVEMBER 24, 2016
Energy firm Drax, which supplies up to approximately eight per cent of the UK's electricity needs, is enhancing its business processes following the successful implementation of a new Advanced Planning Scheduling (APS) system.
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Manufacturing & Logistics IT
NOVEMBER 2, 2016
NeoGrid, a global technology provider of end-to-end supply chain management solutions, is the Senior Supporter Partner of the Argyle Executive Forum's 2016 Leadership in Supply Chain Management & Procurement Forum on Nov. 16, 2016 at The Fitzpatrick Grand Central in New York City.
Manufacturing & Logistics IT
OCTOBER 20, 2016
Hundreds of S.O.L.D. - Supply chain, Operations, Logistics, Delivery - professionals from across the ecommerce and 3PL sector came together last week for the second eDelivery Conference (EDC 2016) at London's Hammersmith Novotel.
Manufacturing & Logistics IT
OCTOBER 13, 2016
Integrated Applications has acquired the exclusive UK intellectual property (IP) rights to Variatec's VariAdd Project solution for project and service driven companies using SAP Business One.
Manufacturing & Logistics IT
OCTOBER 13, 2016
In today's omni-channel world retailers are creating new, innovative and quick ways to get orders to their customers – and same day delivery has become another strategy that takes modern day logistics to a whole new level. How can retailers keep on top of the multiple channels that make up their logistics infrastructure in real time, confidently meet delivery promises and ensure these innovative services are delivering incremental value?
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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.
Manufacturing & Logistics IT
OCTOBER 20, 2016
Infor, provider of business applications specialised by industry and built for the Cloud, has deployed WMS from the Infor SCE suite at another warehouse of LADA Image, the official distributor of spare parts for LADA automobiles.
Manufacturing & Logistics IT
OCTOBER 20, 2016
Smartbox Group, a global leader of the experience gift concept with shares in Europe, has selected RELEX Solutions' supply chain software to implement optimised supply chain processes for its rapidly growing global operation.
Manufacturing & Logistics IT
OCTOBER 5, 2016
By Kevin O'Marah, Chief Content Officer, SCM World. Increasing the number of women in leadership positions in public companies improves profitability. Men and women work in different ways, bringing different strengths to the table, so it makes sense that gender diversity means better business decisions. So, why is the supply chain profession still struggling to attract, retain and recognise female talent?
Manufacturing & Logistics IT
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
Gartner, Inc., revealed its 2016 ranking of the top 15 supply chain organisations based in Europe at its annual Supply Chain Executive Conference, held from 19-20 September in London.
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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.
Manufacturing & Logistics IT
SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
Manhattan Associates, Inc. has announced a powerful line-up of keynote speakers for its Exchange EMEA conference to take place October 5-6 at Hotel du Collectionneur in Paris, France.
Manufacturing & Logistics IT
AUGUST 31, 2016
Today, no business operates alone. In order to be successful globally, every business has to rely on an ecosystem of partners – suppliers, factories, logistics providers, financial institutions and others to efficiently serve customers and to find new ways to deliver value. The supply chain has transformed into a supply network – from linear to multidimensional.
Universal Robots
DECEMBER 14, 2016
What if we could always get in touch with our UR robots, anywhere, anytime - from any device? That was the question Airgate, a Danish developer of customized IoT solutions, often encountered when talking to distributors and end-users of UR robots. Airgate had developed a GSM modem solution, ARCS basic, that provides.
Universal Robots
NOVEMBER 11, 2016
Collaborative robots have become the buzzword in industrial automation. At Universal Robots, we define ‘collaborative‘ by ease-of-use, ease of integration, and affordability, and safe. In this blog, we focus on how the safety aspect is defined by the current safety standard. In February, Universal Robots welcomed the new.
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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.
Universal Robots
NOVEMBER 4, 2016
Technology has always been a crucial driver of change in human history; the invention of the wheel, the steam engine, or the internet. Robotics and automation technologies will definitely be seen as a game-changer, even if the extent of change brought about is still to come. While robots have been used in industrial processes.
Universal Robots
OCTOBER 27, 2016
SICK is one of the world’s leading sensor manufacturers providing sensors and application solutions that create the perfect basis for controlling processes securely, safely, and efficiently. SICK’s commitment to intelligence, independence, innovation, leadership, people, and safety aligns with Universal Robots’ goals and vision.
Universal Robots
OCTOBER 14, 2016
From November 16-18, Las Vegas will be all about metalworking and fabricating. Well, maybe Las Vegas will still also be about gambling. But there is more than just slot machines in town: To discover innovative automation solutions in the metalworking industry, you will find no better place during this period than FABTECH 2016.
Universal Robots
SEPTEMBER 22, 2016
Finding the right name for your new company can be a hard job; there are innumerable possibilities. When we decided to go with Universal Robots, we had two reasons: First, it was inspired by a timeless classic of Science Fiction from 1920 - the Czech stage play “Rossum’s Universal Robots” by Karel Capek. This play originated.
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.
Universal Robots
SEPTEMBER 9, 2016
Collaborative robots (cobots) are being adopted at unprecedented rates, due in large part to their user-friendly design. This positive user experience is no fluke. It comes as a result of in-depth research and design and ongoing testing to explore how the robots are actually being used and how they can be continuously improved.
Universal Robots
AUGUST 29, 2016
French television viewers of the Rio Olympics were treated to robot enhanced camera work with Universal Robots’ partner Augmented Robotics, AR+. The company, located in Laval, France, joined a UR10 robot arm with its proprietary software for an operator-free camera solution where the camera can be mounted to either a gantry.
Universal Robots
AUGUST 12, 2016
The Danish industrial world can move a great deal of production to Denmark from abroad, and do it profitably, by utilizing robots. It requires that the Danish workforce is trained to recognize and use the full capabilities of modern automation technology. Too few employees have the skills and experience to accelerate this.
Universal Robots
AUGUST 5, 2016
Just a little more than one month has passed since we launched the +YOU Developer Program. For us, lively exchange with the developer community is essential; the collaborative robot arm is not a complete solution without developers providing custom-fit products, whether it be the end effectors, software, or accessories.
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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.
Universal Robots
JULY 8, 2016
What if you could pay for automation the same as you do for a temporary employee? What if you only had to pay for the actual hours worked and with no upfront costs? In our hyper-competitive world, every manufacturer would like to increase production and quality while improving efficiency. Automation can do all of these things.
Universal Robots
JUNE 27, 2016
The big news is out: Universal Robots+ has been launched successfully at the German trade show AUTOMATICA. Universal Robots+ is a new environment creating Win-Win-Win situations benefitting all parties involved. This new ecosystem includes a showroom for developers to display their robotic components: vision systems.
Universal Robots
JUNE 17, 2016
We hear the benefits automation brings to business but what about the employees who work hand-in-hand with these new technologies? Education, flexibility, safety, and improved work culture are just a few examples shared by members of the global workforce who work together with collaborative robots (cobots) on a daily basis.
Universal Robots
JUNE 10, 2016
In less than two weeks, the leading trade show for automation and mechatronics will open its gates in Munich, Germany, on June 21, 2016. Of course, every trade show is special, but this year’s AUTOMATICA is of particular relevance for us since we will bring in a new era of cobots: What does Universal Robots have in stock?
Speaker: Kristin Hess - Senior Product Marketing Manager, Drift; Will Lyon - Head of Vertical Marketing, 6sense
The past three years have forced nearly every industry to rethink their prospect and customer engagement strategy. But while we’ve all been thrust into digital transformation, we haven’t all made the transition efficiently. Now that we know digital selling is the new norm, how can we ensure our website is doing as much of the leg work as possible for us - even in the midst of economic challenges?
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