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Leveraging Analytics to Better Manage Industrial Assets

Analyst Insight: The connected nature of today's business environment is driving exponential growth in data, which is subsequently driving improvements in advanced analytic capabilities and the opportunity to leverage advanced analytics in manufacturing processes. For industrial manufacturing firms, capturing real-time data relative to asset performance and condition enables predictive maintenance and helps to realize productivity improvements and cost savings by reducing unscheduled downtime and optimizing asset performance. - John Santagate, Research Manager, IDC

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E-Commerce Growth Notwithstanding, Retailers Expand Their Brick-and-Mortar Presence Worldwide

Retailers are expanding their networks of stores internationally this year despite the presumed headwind of online shopping, with a greater percentage eyeing growth in the Americas than last year, according to a survey of more than 150 major, international brands released by CBRE Group, Inc.

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Schneider Electric Charts an End-to-End Supply Chain Roadmap

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Trinity Rail: Building a Sense-and-Respond Supply Chain

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Anritsu Forges a Proactive Supply Chain

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Industry's Use of Robots Is Increasing. What Does That Mean for Your Job?

If a robot takes your job, don't say the government didn't warn you.

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Software and Uncoupled Pod System Helps Increase Accuracy and Efficiency

Challenge: A third party logistics company, distributing medical devices was looking to increase inventory accuracy as well as throughput of order picking during their peak hours. However, any solution that is presented must be able to accommodate more than one person as a picker.

Network Design and Flow Mapping Case Study

Challenge: GEODIS' target was to bring savings to an industrial company located in Brazil that produces construction and high-performance materials. The customer has 5 different lines of business each working with multiple carriers and sites (21 plants and 19 distributions centers) to carry 176,000 tons a year for a total cost spend of $10 million. The mission was to bring savings by advising optimizations on 500 transportation network roads.

Mid-Sized Industrial U.S. Manufacturers Confident About 2016

Optimism among mid-sized manufacturing companies in the U.S. outpaces their enthusiasm for the economy as a whole, according to the 8th Annual CFO Survey from Prime Advantage.

Manufacturing Actually Accounts for Third of U.S. GDP, Not One Tenth, Research Suggests

Two measures commonly used by the government to measure manufacturing's overall impact on society are badly underestimating the impact of that critical sector. One is the proportion of gross domestic product for which manufacturing accounts. The other is the "multiplier effect," which measures the impact on other industries from an increase in economic activity by a specific industry.

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Corning Awards Life Sciences Business to Kuehne & Nagel

Corning Incorporated has appointed Kuehne & Nagel to manage the distribution requirements for its Corning Life Sciences business in the Asia-Pacific market.

Database Created on Toxicity of 10,000 Chemicals Used in Europe

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have created a safety database on 10,000 chemicals registered in Europe for predicting the toxicity of many of the 90,000 or more other substances in consumer products.

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