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With Future of Lithium-Ion Battery Market Secure, Manufacturers Focus on Cutting Costs

The global market for lithium-ion batteries for vehicles is expected to grow from $7.8bn in 2015 to $30.6bn in 2024, according to a report from Navigant Research.

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Robots as Co-workers? Not on Your Life.

In June this year a robot crushed a man to death in a Volkswagen factory in Germany. The 22-year-old maintenance worker became trapped between a large robotic arm and a metal plate, in an area usually off-bounds to humans.

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More and More Manufacturers Discover Mexico

Due to rising wages and growing logistics costs in China, a growing number of U.S.-based manufacturers are turning to Mexico for production.

Walmart Teams With Group Dedicated to Promoting Reshoring of U.S. Manufacturers

The Reshoring Initiative recently announced a program in partnership with Walmart to help companies manufacture more consumer products in the United States.

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Moving From a Supply Chain to a Supply Web

It's time to stop thinking of your supply chain as an endless stream of entities, all nicely linked together; it is much more complex than that.

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Are You Doing Everything to Make Your Customer's Online Experience a Positive One?

It's no secret that competition in online retail sales is a cutthroat business.

U.S. Companies Still Tempted to Shift Domiciles Abroad to Take Advantage of Lower Corporate Taxes

When President Barack Obama said last September that he would get tough on companies that avoid tax through "inversions" - merging with or buying foreign firms so as to shift their domicile abroad - some wondered if this would end a wave of corporate emigration.

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Bracing for Supply Chain Sticker Shock

For most of the past three decades, private equity firms and other investors have relied on two simple questions to assess the supply chains of the companies in which they've invested: Are our companies leveraging low-cost country supply sources and are they keeping supply chain costs in check? Deeper inquiries have always seemed unnecessary, so private equity firms and investors have focused on other aspects of the businesses they own to drive value.

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DuPont Reportedly Scores Highest Among Chemical Companies Striving to Lower Carbon Footprint

DuPont leads the chemical industry in preparing for a low-carbon economy, according to CDP's latest quarterly sector research report.

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Is China's Economy Taking a Dive?

What's going on behind the veil of secrecy that masks China's economy?

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Closing Gap Between Bricks-and-Mortar Stores, Online Shopping

Consumers don't see "channels." They are time-starved and information-rich, and use technology that they carry around in their pockets and purses to find the best solutions to their lifestyle needs.

The Number of Employees, Including C-suite Execs, Working From Home Is Rising

Diebold CEO Andy Mattes can't just stroll down the hall at his company's headquarters in Canton, Ohio, to confer with his top executives over coffee. That's because many don't work there. His chief strategist works and lives 2,100 miles away in San Jose; his chief marketing officer is in Boston.

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How a Leading U.S. Floral Distribution Company Reduced Warehouse Labor Costs by 45% with RFID

Recycled Tagging Fasteners: Small Changes Make a Big Impact

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Enhancing High-Value Electronics Shipment Security with Tive's Real-Time Tracking

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