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Industrial Processes & Wireless Communications – Part II: Manufacturing Logistics

Cisco Manufacturing

This use-case consists of some form of inbound transportation, such as a heavy goods vehicle, container ship or freight train, which delivers a pallet of goods. Traffic Types : Mostly non-critical telemetry and high-definition video, apart from critical telemetry from production logistics. Determinism : None. Synchronicity : None.

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Current challenges in the manufacturing industry and the impact on your financial reports

Manufacturer's Monthly

Significant increase in freights and transport. Increases in costs, such as labour, freight, energy and raw material and electronics, can result in the cost initially recognised a s being g reater than its net realisable value. This may result in consumers severely cutting back on expenditure and could lead to a recession.

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

Donlouco

And then cost is most definitely a consideration also. Supplier lead-in times dramatically increased, and freight costs became significantly more expensive. During the height of the pandemic, the cost of air freight increased significantly due to global demand for PPE. In short, yes.

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Next steps for digital transformation for manufacturers

Control Engineering

Now in nearly every automation domain, experts from all major manufacturers, academia and standardization bodies are working on definitions of specific submodels to open standardized ways to access properties, descriptions, documentations or live data from any asset – in a completely manufacturer-independent way.

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The journey in becoming a wet wipe expert

Manufacturer's Monthly

Sardigno recognised the potential benefits of having an additional plant to reduce freight costs and carbon emissions associated with transporting products across the country. “It took time to refine because we’ve implemented automated equipment, which requires training and expertise within our team.”

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Teamsters union serves strike notice to CPKC; CN Rail issues lockout notice

Canadian Manufacturing

“Unless there is an immediate and definite resolution to the labour conflict, CN will have no choice but to continue the phased and progressive shutdown of its network which would culminate in a lockout,” the company said in a release. The company says no meaningful progress has occurred despite weekend labour negotiations.

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Digital dash: How electronic management tools are helping revolutionise the transport workplace

SMMT

For example, Dunstable-based Falcon Freight has seen an improvement in planning times after introducing transport management system (TMS) Mandata Go last year. It is definitely saving us time across the board.”