January, 2017

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How cobots are changing quality assurance in manufacturing

Universal Robots

If a product made it through your quality assurance processes with a defect and landed in the hands of your customer, how would you feel? If this happened to hundreds or thousands of products over time what would this cost your business? Time, product returns, stress, loss of customers, and possibly reduced profitability.

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Safety Light Curtains: One Way to Safeguard Your Machines

Trimantec

Safety light curtains (also known as light guards or light screens) are optical sensing devices. They offer flexibility, quick and frequent access to machinery , and better visibility. Also, they’re easier and more cost-efficient to maintain than mechanical barriers. If you’re shopping for a quality safety system, we’re here to answer some of your burning questions. .

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Optimising the flow - Supply Chain Management Special Technology Report

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Manufacturing & Logistics IT spoke to a number of key spokespeople from the vendor and analyst communities about recent developments in the world of supply chain management-related solutions – including those involving mobility, Cloud/SaaS and Big Data.

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Solving complex problems with innovative concepts and robotic solutions

Universal Robots

The best automation solutions are smart, simple, innovative, and fully leverage technology to create significant business efficiencies and provide great benefits to employees and customers. Today, UR cobots are being used to solve business problems with creative concepts and innovative solutions that can be integrated into.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Finding common ground in a world of numerous environments – Compliance for Robotic Companies

Universal Robots

Compared to traditional industrial sectors, robotics is a relatively young field with only about 40 years of deployment history in workplace environments. Technology within this field however is advancing incredibly fast and thus, compliance needs to be adaptable to keep pace with these rapid changes. Another challenge is how.

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Sage unveils Sage 50c – Microsoft Office 365 integration helps enable more freedom, control and automation for Business Builders

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Sage launched Sage 50c – what the company describes as the next step in its continuing mission to help Small & Medium Businesses access the best technology and innovation.

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BT deploys digital store pilot solution for Thomas Pink

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

BT has announced that shirtmaker and luxury clothing retailer Thomas Pink has deployed the Acuitas Digital Internet of Things (IoT) platform, which helps retailers to digitise the physical store, at its Wall Street New York City store.

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2nd BME Global Pharma Supply Chain Congress 2017 in Frankfurt/Main

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

The 2nd BME Global Pharma Supply Chain Congress of the Association for Supply Chain Management, Procurement and Logistics (BME) at the Marriott Hotel in Frankfurt takes place from 20 to 23 March 2017. Motto of this international event is "Embracing a new supply chain culture to drive the patient-centric agenda".

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Maplin expands iForce partnership to include returns processing

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Maplin, the consumer technology specialist, has further strengthened its strategic partnership with iForce by adding the iForce Revive service proposition to the national multi-channel fulfilment solution it has provided since 2014.

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George East set a new benchmark for all future improvement projects with Slimstock

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

The business behind some of Britain's leading kitchenware brands including Tala and ChefAid, has established a new benchmark by which all future supply chain projects will be judged.

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The Future of Manufacturing: Behind-the-Scene Insights from the IMTS Conference

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AIMMS mentioned in record number of Gartner Reports in 2016

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

AIMMS, the vendor of Prescriptive Analytics and Modelling software, was mentioned in a record number of Gartner reports in 2016.

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Optimising goods-in efficiencies

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

By David Stain, senior vertical marketing manager EMEA manufacturing, field mobility & healthcare, Zebra Technologies.