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Tevva Thought Leadership: We Need to be Bolder on Zero Emission Truck (ZET) Adoption

i4.0 today

The imperative of transitioning to zero-emission road freight cannot be overstated, given its crucial role in addressing climate change and enhancing public health. This would align the commercial freight sector with the effective phasing out of fossil-fuel passenger cars by the same deadline.

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Decoding Reshoring: Motivations, Challenges and Technological Influences

Mold Making Technology

Most companies make sourcing decisions based solely on price, often resulting in a 20 to 30% miscalculation of actual offshoring costs. Using this information, companies can better evaluate sourcing, identify alternatives and even make a case when selling against offshore competitors. (2) being sourced here. Probably not true.

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MoldMaking Conference Session Spotlight: HOT TOPICS

Mold Making Technology

Insight will be gleaned from the moldmaker and molder, and also from Sloan Valve's Senior Manager, charged with sourcing new products. supplier to bring tooling back stateside.

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Supply Chain Security | Addressing Your Supply Chain Management Issues Post Recovery

Donlouco

Manufacturers and OEMs continue to address their current supply chain management systems to overcome the issues presented in the movement of goods as a result of Covid-19. However, there are many components and parts that cannot be sourced or produced locally in the short or medium term as some of these supply chains are long and complex.

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Markforged tips ‘just in place’ to replace ‘just in time’ in Australian manufacturing

Manufacturer's Monthly

Elving pointed out that an estimated 40 per cent of all components used by Australian manufacturers are sourced from China, with a large percentage of the balance coming from other offshore sources. This could substantially reduce the carbon footprint of the freight sector.

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Markforged tips ‘just in place’ to replace ‘just in time’ in Australian manufacturing

AU Manufacturing

Mr Elving pointed out that an estimated 40% of all components used by Australian manufacturers are sourced from China, with a large percentage of the balance coming from other offshore sources. . This could substantially reduce the carbon footprint of the freight sector. .

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Seeing Through the Fog: SWIR and Event-Based Vision for Autonomous Vehicles, Discussed by IDTechEx

i4.0 today

Ever-increasing levels of vehicle autonomy are poised to revolutionize both personal and freight transport, reducing time spent sitting in traffic and ushering in new transportation modes such as robotaxis. At present InGaAs is used to image in the SWIR region, but its high price leaves room for emerging technologies.

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