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6 Manufacturing Trends You Need to Know

Arena Solutions

The global manufacturing sector has seen an upswing, a technological renaissance of sorts. Since the start of 2012, more people graduating from college and universities are entering the engineering/manufacturing fields. The manufacturing sector has been severely impacted by this trend because production jobs are highly technical.

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Digital Inventory Management Key Battleground in Transformation of Brick-and-Mortar Retail

GlobalTranz

As e-commerce growth accelerates, shippers are working overtime to manage available inventory. It catalyzed brick-and-mortar retailers to offer online shopping opportunities, which require much more than manual inventory management practices. WHITE PAPER] The Top Supply Chain Trends that Will Impact Supply Chain Management in 2018.

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Megatrends Reshaping Supply Chain Management

Logistics Viewpoints

End users – supply chain practitioners working for manufacturers, distributors, or retailers – can attend for free. Manufacturing automation – including 3D printing (also called additive manufacturing) – is making it easier to create many, many more product variants. billion in 2018.

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Supply Chain Predictions for 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

A look at the supply chain trends and technology that will come into play in 2018. These standards define how IoT devices will communicate, and how data will be collected, processed, handled, stored, and summarized. These concerns will extend into 2018, as companies work on a regulatory standard – though nothing has emerged yet.

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Manufacturing Gains From Machine Learning

IQMS

Improving semiconductor manufacturing yields up to 30%, reducing scrap rates, and optimizing fab operations is achievable with machine learning. Manufacturers care most about finding new ways to grow, excel at product quality while still being able to take on short lead-time production runs from customers.

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Real-Time Monitoring Fuels IoT Growth In Manufacturing

IQMS

72% of manufacturers say real-time monitoring is essential for streamlining and making inventory reconciliation more efficient. 72% of manufacturers say real-time monitoring is essential for streamlining and making inventory reconciliation more efficient.

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Digital Twins and Phygital Fitness

Enterra Insights

This technology took a step further in 2002 when Michael Grieves publicly introduced the concept and model of the digital twin at a Society of Manufacturing Engineers conference in Troy, Michigan. ” In today’s digital environment, finding the right data to drive a digital twin is not as difficult as one might think.