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How the Bakken Oil Boom Impacts U.S. Supply Chains

CH Robinson Transportfolio

For those of us in neighboring states, North Dakota is the source of a clichéd “giant sucking sound,” the likes of which this generation has never experienced. A neighbor of mine’s relative was recruited to the Bakken to help develop manufactured home communities. Here is a short video of one such oil train in St.

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Podcast: Roberto Reichard on Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Capital Projects

Requis

I’m an engineer by training. I had the opportunity to work in Turkey, Egypt and in Venezuela. The pressure to be more sustainable also comes from outside sources like governments, banks and customers. During that whole life cycle, 40% of the carbon is the material extraction and manufacturing phases.

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Why Is It So Hard to Find Good Help These Days?

Material Handling & Logistics

Jim Shephard, president, Shephard’s Industrial Training Systems. ? The latest smart manufacturing concept that we developed and demonstrated is the robot-on-a-cart concept for autonomous assembly or conveyer tending. Tan Miller, director of the Global Supply Chain Management Program, Rider University. ? I asked in all innocence.