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Supply Chain Management
Is Continuous Optimization of an Asset Possible?
Learn why detection of sub-optimality is required not only to avoid unexpected failures, but also to achieve superior performance, and how continuous asset optimization can be achieved.
IIoT
Insights on Industry’s Digital Transformation Leaders
ARC Advisory Group highlights the focus and strategies of 25 industrial companies successfully making the digital transformation.
Supply Chain Management
The Evolving Smart Manufacturing Supply Chain
See how manufacturers who adopt Smart Manufacturing methods also gain a strategic competitive advantage in the marketplace.
Sponsored
Error Detection Automation Simplified: Introducing the In-Sight 2800
See how easily the Cognex In-Sight 2800 can automate error detection. Powered by deep learning, it can solve a wide range of inspection applications quickly and easily — no programming experience required.
Supply Chain Management
Supply Chain Headaches Reveal Golden Opportunities in the Industrial and Utility Worlds
While current supply chain disruptions may be frustrating in the short term, they could offer an opportunity to accelerate innovation.
Supply Chain Management
The Automation, Supply Chain, Reshoring Connection
Supply chain disruptions over the past two years put a spotlight on the need to reshore critical manufacturing operations and the role automation will play in making this happen.
Take Five
ERP’s Growing Importance to Production Operations
How manufacturers are leveraging the connection between ERP and plant floor systems to improve production operations.
Sponsored
LOGO! 8.3 Logic Modules
LOGO! module now performs functions previously reserved for larger controllers. Users are no longer limited by the storage volume of the SD card but can now send it to the cloud.
Supply Chain Management
CPGs to Spend $23.8 Billion on Digital Transformation by 2030
As the sharing of information along the supply chain becomes more critical, CPGs are increasingly creating digital threads to inform their production plans with relevant data.
Workforce
Autonomous Mobile Robots and Wearables Come Together to Boost Warehouse Productivity
A new partnership between inVia Robotics and Rufus Labs aims to combine mobile robots, wearables, and intelligent analytics to improve human-machine collaboration and maximize labor efficiency.
IIoT
Mars Partners with Microsoft for its Global Digital Transformation
The plan includes a “cloud-first” strategy, leveraging AI, IoT, and digital twins across its businesses, focusing on intelligent supply chains, and delivering hyper-relevant consumer experiences.
Supply Chain Management
Analytics Software Predicts Product Quality
Through its integration with SAP’s S/4HANA and Digital Manufacturing Cloud, Software AG’s TrendMiner software now enables manufacturers to offer supply chain partners greater visibility into quality metrics.
Supply Chain Management
Securing Cannabis Across the Supply Chain
Applied DNA Sciences and and TruTrace Technologies team up to tag, test, and track cannabis products from seed to sale.
Supply Chain Management
Simulating Supply Chains to Conquer Complexity
The Industrial Internet Consortium’s Supply Network Dynamic Simulation Test Drive has been developed to help companies grapple with the challenges of their global supply networks.
Supply Chain Management
Blockchain for Label Printers?
Honeywell and iTrace Technologies integrate blockchain technology into industrial printers to track inventory across the supply chain.
Supply Chain Management
Making the Shift to Industrial Product-as-a-Service Work
As the demand grows, learn why companies are now shifting from selling a product as a one-time item to offering customers a Product-as-a-Service route.
Supply Chain Management
Automation and the Supply Chain
Connecting supply chain and production operations often stops at the ERP system. But given the disruptions caused by politics and pandemics, successful supply chain operations will likely require a closer connection to plant floor automation systems.
Supply Chain Management
What Affect Does Automation Have on Supply Chain Management?
Learn about the connections between supply chain operations and automation technologies, ranging from analytics and MES to HMI and SCADA software.
Analytics
Paying for Performance
The new automation model focuses on services that reduce a manufacturer’s financial risks by shifting the responsibility of asset acquisition on to the OEM or technology supplier via performance-based service level agreements or cloud-based subscription.
Supply Chain Management
Software Helps Consumer Goods Manufacturer Thrive Amid Pandemic Uncertainty
Skin Actives proves that digitizing production operations doesn’t necessarily require big ticket software technologies. Modern Material Requirements Planning software can address every step in the production process, from order processing to fulfillment.
Supply Chain Management
Strengthening OEM Supply Chains for Challenging Times
Global supply chains are being impacted by COVID-19. In order to more effectively recover from the issues caused by the global pandemic and sustain success in the future, strengthening the resilience and agility of the supply chains is a must.
Supply Chain Management
Operations & Supply Chains After COVID-19
How supply chain operations and processes will need to change to have the best chance of success after the coronavirus, and where system integrators can play a role in the transition.
Supply Chain Management
Why Conveyance Technologies Remain an Industry Lynchpin
Conveyor technology is no longer just about moving goods and components back and forth. Automation advances are transforming it into a core aspect of production strategy.
