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Create a Supply Chain that will Bend, not Break

Fabricating & Metal Work

Sometimes the supply chain feels like continuous chaos — that there is nothing to do but shrug your shoulders and wait for things to change. Consider that metalworking manufacturing operations are speeding up processes by adding the latest machinery, robotics and automation into processes — only to run into supply chain constraints.

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Embrace Disruption: The Supply Chain

Fabricating & Metal Work

COVER STORY Metalworkers can build supply chains that can bend without breaking thanks to innovative strategies, processes and products. In response, metalworkers continue to invest in automation, robotics and machinery to speed up their processes, manufacturing highly precise and accurate components and parts.

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How data discovery enables manufacturers to identify trends that can help in fine-tuning their operations

AU Manufacturing

As the digitisation of the manufacturing sector becomes more prevalent, we are seeing big data collected from machines, robotics, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) sensors and other connected equipment in the factory. These large data sets are then analysed to uncover hidden insights and trends.

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Should you be looking for AI in an ERP?

AU Manufacturing

Robotics, computers, voice recognition software, virtual assistants, music composition, and chatbots, most recently including the infamous ChatGDP. On the brink of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, we can acknowledge that supply chains are more efficient and informed than ever before. The question now is which one?

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Moldmaking Operation Visibility is Enhanced Through Smart Factory Solution

Mold Making Technology

For today’s competitive mold builders, evolving shop floor technology is swiftly becoming a necessity to compete amidst workforce limitations, supply chain disruptions and a global marketplace.

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The time is now for system integrators, manufacturers

Control Engineering

soil and companies motivated to invest in technology and production resources working to address resource and capacity constraints. An SI may be operations, enterprise or supply-chain centric. Market characteristics SIs come in all different shapes and sizes. Jose Rivera is CEO of the CSIA.

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Canadian manufacturing industry’s global competitiveness at stake, says CME

Automation Mag

The CME survey also reveals that one out of four companies is not currently using any of the nine digital transformation software solutions available on the market, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. including cloud computing, robotics and cybersecurity.