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Type: Blog
Section: Factory > Supply Chain Management
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Agile in a System Integrator World
From project development to general productivity, having an agile system in a systems integrator world is extremely beneficial. Jeff Miller lays out how your company can benefit from an Agile project delivery methodology.
Networks
Bumble Bee Uses Blockchain to Track Tuna
As the first food company to use the SAP Cloud Platform with blockchain-as-a-service, Bumble Bee can provide visibility throughout the supply chain by following the fish from the ocean to your table.
Supply Chain Management
Walmart Gets Bold About Blockchain
The retailer is mandating some suppliers onboard to IBM’s Food Trust platform as the need for fast and transparent traceability across the supply chain increases.
Data
The Physical Supply Chain Goes Digital
As manufacturers adopt new machine technology to produce “batch of one,” Cloudleaf gives the supply chain a digital makeover, as well.
IIoT
Is Blockchain a One-Trick Pony?
Despite an array of applications for blockchain, the technology is fighting some headwinds from knowledgeable naysayers. Is it just an overhyped tool for cryptocurrencies, or does it hold critical answers for industry’s supply chain and cybersecurity issues?
Supply Chain Management
Blockchain Meets the Manufacturing Supply Chain
Despite early confusion about the technology, suppliers are developing network frameworks and apps that will make blockchain an essential part of food and pharma industries.
Supply Chain Management
Stop Counterfeiting Straight From the Farm
TruTag’s optical microtag authentication technology will soon be utilized to protect China’s livestock in the supply chain, beginning with pigs.
Supply Chain Management
Is Blockchain Coming to Manufacturing?
Wipro launches a number of blockchain-based offerings, four of which are directed at manufacturing to improve process efficiencies and reduce costs.
Supply Chain Management
Serialization Lessons from a CMO
PACK EXPO East: Patheon, which has invested a lot of time and energy designing and building out serialization on pharmaceutical packaging lines, has learned a lot from the experience. Here’s what you need to know.
Supply Chain Management
Could Blockchain Solve Pharma’s DSCSA Challenges?
The industry is asking how to share serialization information between supply chain partners. Blockchain’s distributed record-keeping technology could be the answer.
Control
IT and Operations Disparities
Responses to a recent Automation World reader survey indicate marked differences between IT and operations personnel around cybersecurity, safety, supply chain and remote access/mobility technologies.
Control
3 Industrial Apps for 2016
If 2015 was a year of study and analysis, then 2016 should be a year of testing and implementation. The exercise to define objectives is done, now begins the daily activity and effort to realize them.
Software
Paralysis By Analysis
Having a specific, goal-oriented strategy in place is critical to breaking the paralysis-by-analysis stranglehold on your company’s automation technology mindset.
Supply Chain Management
Automakers Need Visible, Flexible Manufacturing to Compete
In-car technologies, vehicle customization, and the arrival of electric and autonomous vehicles all add to the complexity of automotive manufacturing. Improving the visibility and flexibility of the manufacturing and supply chain network will help.
Networks
Connecting Expertise Along the Supply Chain
A combination of video, audio and data can be used to connect remote experts in the manufacturing supply chain to avert or solve production bottlenecks and train workers.
Software
Siemens Aligns Around Industry 4.0
The keynote address at Siemens 2014 Automation Summit highlighted how the digitized vision of manufacturing, as prescribed by Industry 4.0, will play out in Siemens’ plans for the future.
Control
Improving Food Safety with Integrated Systems
The Food Safety Modernization Act mandates the need for timely, accurate tracking information. Integrating systems takes the guesswork out of tracing products from front to back and beyond.
Supply Chain Management
Look to the U.S. for Low-Cost Manufacturing?
A new study indicates that China’s currency fluctuations and shipping costs are leading some companies to look more closely at the U.S. and/or Mexico for low-cost manufacturing operations.
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