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Automotive Supply Chain Disruptions Are Up 30 Percent, Report Shows
The global automotive industry saw a “significant rise” in supply chain disruptions in 2017 compared to the previous year, a report has said.
U.S. Farmers, Agribusiness Feel Lingering Strain From Cold, Wet Spring
U.S. agribusinesses are facing lingering inventory snafus and economic pain over farm chemicals and fertilizer, as a cold, wet spring that slowed crop plantings continues to cause ripple effects across the agricultural sector.
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With Robots in Control, Chemical Makers Fight for Their Formulas
Four decades ago as a young engineer working for Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., Patrick Thomas helped install one of the sector’s first digital computer systems: a mahogany-encased machine now on display in a science museum.
What Americans Say About Online Shopping Reveals A Lot About Amazon
On a cold December night last year, a meeting was called in the lobby of my apartment building. Concerned residents gathered to discuss a matter of great import: what to do about the swarms of packages jamming the lobby closet and overflowing into the entryway.
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Inside Tesla’s Model 3 Factory
On the Model 3 body line on a Tuesday afternoon in early June, everything is still. Tesla Inc. is just coming off a week of downtime during which workers added a new production line, improved ventilation after a fire in the paint shop, and overhauled machines across the factory. But even after the changes, there are kinks to work out.
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Home Depot Sets $1.2Bn Supply-Chain Overhaul
Home Depot Inc. plans to spend $1.2bn over the next five years to speed up delivery of goods to homes and job sites as the rise of online shopping resets consumer expectations.
Unethically Mined Cobalt Haunts Companies’ Supply Chains
Cobalt, a chemical element crucial for making lithium-ion batteries, continues to be mined using child labor in the Democratic Republic of Congo. With the DRC producing two-thirds of the world’s cobalt and demand expected to increase, companies are struggling to clean up their supply chains, CNN reported.
Opinion: When Factories Have a Choice Between Robots and People, It's Best to Start With People
It’s lazy to think that a manufacturing process is better just because it’s automated. While the effort going on right now at the Tesla factory in Fremont is anything but lazy, it brings into the spotlight one of the core problems with the simplistic “automation for automation’s sake” strategy: processes that aren’t stable to begin with cannot be made stable with robots.
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Happy Anniversary, Amazon-Whole Foods. What’s Changed?
One year ago this week, Amazon.com Inc. loudly declared its intention to become a grocery industry heavyweight by announcing its agreement to buy Whole Foods Market.
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Portrait of a Steel Town: Where Others Fear a Trade War, Coatesville Sees Hope
Three years into the Iraq war, facing a spike in casualties from roadside bombings, the Pentagon turned to a steel mill in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, to supply emergency armor for combat vehicles.
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Top 10 Forklift Manufacturers of 2018
Forklift sales are up and continuing to rise. In the North American market, 2017 sales were up 9.5 percent over 2016, reaching a new benchmark of 253,146 units sold.
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