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Best Logistics and Supply Chain Conferences to Attend in 2024

Logistics Viewpoints

I have my own favorite events, each for its specific qualities. It’s a “who’s who” in warehouse automation, software, and robotics. Meanwhile, technology providers’ user events are mostly packed into the spring, so plan accordingly. Some have great content for learning, while others bring superior networking opportunities.

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Warehousing News Roundup: April 1, 2019

Stord

A terminal operator at the Port of Oakland is implementing hybrid yard cranes to improve air quality, per a recent press release. This transition will cost $6 million to complete ($5 million of which comes from a grant by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District) and will cut 45 tons of pollutants per year. Thoughts or comments?

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Smart Glasses in the Warehouse with Paul Travers

The Logistics of Logistics

Paul Travers and Joe Lynch discuss smart glasses in the warehouse. Founded in 1997, Vuzix is a public company (NASDAQ: VUZI) with offices in Rochester, NY; Oxford, UK; Munich, Germany; and Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan.

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A Conversation with Don Teng

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Headquartered in Kyoto, Japan, OMRON Corporation is a multi-billion-dollar, diversified company with business units producing industrial automation products, device & module solutions, healthcare, and social system solutions. For example, forklift drivers, pickers, packers, quality inspectors and so forth, etc.

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Hitendra Chaturvedi’s Reality Check

Resilinc

China ranks number one as the country from which companies are reshoring, followed by Mexico, Canada, India, and Japan. are: Germany, China, Japan, Canada, and Korea. Some of us are old enough to remember when “Quality” was a new thing and taught as a separate course in colleges and universities. That’s good news.

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DesignFuture Japan and Locus Robotics to deploy autonomous mobile robots in Japan.

Locus Robotics

Collaboration in the “Material Bank® Japan” sample marketplace for order fulfillment of interior design and construction materials. The two companies will introduce 25 Locus AMRs, the first in Japan, to the Material Bank® Japan HUB (Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture) to realize an ESG-friendly and high productivity logistics scheme.

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The secret to distance selling success

DELMIA Quintiq

E-commerce experts point to the fact that German consumers are very conscious about quality and price, especially when it comes to buying fresh produce. Central warehousing concepts are doomed to fail. While Germans spent on average €12.40 Switzerland is also way ahead at €87 per person.