2016 Breaks Records for North American Robot Orders & Shipments
Orders surged 61 percent in assembly applications while food & consumer goods orders increased 32 percent
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Barcoding, Inc. Releases Enterprise Mobility Services to Enhance Customer Satisfaction
BALTIMORE – Barcoding, Inc., the leader in supply chain efficiency, accuracy, and connectivity, announces the release of its new Enterprise Mobility Services. Barcoding’s new business service areas will enhance customer satisfaction and provide peace of mind during OS migrations, platform upgrades and enterprise deployments. Barcoding’s Enterprise Mobility Services will aim to proactively monitor solutions to…
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The Future of Global Supply Chains and the Trump Effect
While the mantra of the high-tech industry is constant change, the types of changes our industry has been facing just this month are far outside the norm. The burning business and industry questions are not about volatile market cycles but what happens when ideology meets manufacturing reality along the global supply chain. There are, to…
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North American PCB Sales Enjoyed Solid Growth in December
IPC Releases PCB Industry Results for December 2016
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The Industrial Internet Consortium Publishes the Industrial Internet Reference Architecture, Version 1.8
NEEDHAM, MA – The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), the global, member-driven organization that promotes the accelerated growth of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), announced the publication of version 1.8 of the Industrial Internet Reference Architecture (IIRA). This new version builds on version 1.7, originally published on June 17, 2015 , by incorporating rapidly emerging new…
DetailsHow Industry 4.0 & IIoT Impact Supply Chain Management: Hype vs. Reality
When people think of Industry 4.0 or the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), they may think of robots whizzing around factory floors assembling products at super human speed. While automation is the most visible aspect of Industry 4.0 and IIoT, these initiatives are also beginning to make a significant impact on supply chain management and…
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For a Sustainable Supply Chain: Trust but Verify
“Trust, but verify” is derived from a Russian proverb. Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan famously applied this term with regards to nuclear disarmament. As with any negotiation, achieving a sustainable supply chain is possible with the right balance of “trust and verify”. However, market forces and leverage alone, do not bring about trust. Shared values…
DetailsRisking Everything: The Mess of the Global Supply Chain
As supply chain managers, we often focus on the ‘law of unintended consequences.’ Anyone watching the political landscape lately can project that the coming month and years will be likely rife with such consequences in trade, manufacturing, and the global electronics supply chain. You know what an unintended consequence is: those times when taking action…
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MRAM Gains More Steam
Fremont, Calif.-based Spin Transfer Technologies Inc. (STT) announced this week that it has delivered samples of its spin transfer torque MRAM to unidentified customers in North America and Asia. The delivery of samples by a chip vendor to potential customers is a rather standard procedure in the semiconductor industry, and STT last year announced publicly…
Details4 Ways Distributors Can Leverage Sales Automation to Eliminate B2B Ecommerce Pitfalls
Ecommerce is now a standard element of almost every business’ sales strategy. Today, companies, both business to business (B2B) and business to consumer (B2C), are expected to have an online shopping feature on their sites to increase their market reach. Yet, although ecommerce is now practically a compulsory investment, a 2016 Modern Distribution Management (MDM)…
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