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Durable Goods Orders Rose 4.8 Percent in October

U.S. durable goods orders rebounded strongly in October, surging past expectations amid increased demand for aircraft and other transportation machinery. The Commerce Department said orders for items meant to last three years increased $11bn, or 4.8 percent, to $239.4bn last month, following a downwardly revised 0.4 percent drop in September. Economists had predicted a 1.7 percent gain.

Study: Third Party Logistics Will Be Worth $925Bn by 2020

The global third party logistics (3PL) market is expected to be worth $925.31bn by 2020 and will be partially driven by the outsourcing of secondary business activities, according to a new report.

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'First of Its Kind' Supply Chain Course to Tackle Skills Gap

A "degree apprenticeship" qualification for supply chain professionals that combines university study alongside paid work claims to be the first of its kind in England. The course seeks to address the growing skills gap in the UK supply chain sector and will incorporate supply chain management, procurement, risk management and more.

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Amcor Uses RFID Pill Dispenser to Monitor Drug Compliance

Amcor Rigid Plastics, a division of Australia-based packaging company Amcor, has announced the release of an RFID-integrated pill-dispensing solution. The battery-powered system, known as the S.M.R.T bottle (the initials stand for separate, monitor, release and track), has a clock-calendar function that registers and stores the time, date and number of each dose taken. Smartphones equipped with near field communication (NFC) functionality can then read, display and transmit the information

Automated Material Handling Is Growing 8 Percent Annually

Automated material handling market is growing with a CAGR of around 8 percent - attributed to increasing demand for the automated solution from various applications like manufacturing, automotive and electrical, according to a new report by Occams Business Research & Consulting.

U.S. Extends ZTE Reprieve on Exports Curbs Until Feb. 27

Chinese telecoms equipment group ZTE Corp said it has won a further reprieve to Feb. 27 on export restrictions that were imposed on the company by the U.S. government. In March, the U.S. Commerce Department hit ZTE with some of the toughest-ever U.S. export restrictions for allegedly breaking sanctions against Iran but has since issued temporary reprieves on the curbs.

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Wal-Mart Tackles Food Safety With Trial of Blockchain

If you shop at Wal-Mart, you might be buying packaged produce unlike any ever sold in a U.S. store. The sliced apples or cut broccoli - the merchant won't say what's involved exactly - are being used to test blockchain, a new database technology. If successful, the trial could change how Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which serves some 260 million customers a week, monitors food and takes action when something goes wrong. That could spur big leaps in food safety, cut costs and save lives.

Software Giant Is Launching 3D Print Manufacturing Labs

SAP says it's establishing a global network of 3D printing co-innovation labs to educate and enable customers, employees and partners on the adoption of additive manufacturing as an integral part of the manufacturing production line.

Apple Wants OLED in iPhones, But Suppliers Say They Aren't Ready Yet

Apple has big plans to outfit its next iPhone with vibrant, energy-sipping organic LED displays, seeking to entice consumers with new technology that's already been embraced by other high-end smartphone makers. The trouble is that the four main suppliers for such components say they won't have enough production capacity to make screens for all new iPhones next year, with constraints continuing into 2018, presenting a potential challenge for the Cupertino, Calif.-based company.

Tire Industry Works Toward Global RFID Tagging Standards

A tire-industry working group led by Chinese rubber manufacturing equipment company Mesnac is striving to standardize the way in which the industry uses radio frequency identification tags. This includes how those tags are attached in tires, as well as how they are tested and encoded with data.

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Will Robots Put an End to Holiday Hiring in the Warehouse?

For retailers and distribution centers, the traditional method for coping with the chaos of the Christmas buying season has been to throw more bodies at the problem. But what if robots could do a better job of handling the surge of activity?

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3D Printing May Be Changing Auto Manufacturing

The movie "Back to the Future" showed us cars hovering in air in an idea of what 2015 would look like. Now in 2016, we see our cars still bound to the earth. However, when the movie was made, in 1985, most of the materials in modern vehicles didn't exist.

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