The Changing Face of Supply Chains
About twenty years ago American manufacturers began changing the face of the supply chain when they began “offshoring” — moving production to cheaper sources in foreign nations, expanding [...]
About twenty years ago American manufacturers began changing the face of the supply chain when they began “offshoring” — moving production to cheaper sources in foreign nations, expanding [...]
In our prior post, we pointed out that China is on the verge of becoming the world leader in the production, sale and implementation of robots, with a stated [...]
Industrial automation continues to progress, and nowhere is that happening at a faster clip now than in China. Robots are making rapid headway in many plants around the world. [...]
As most of us have noticed by now, the pace of technology – long proceeding at a snail’s pace as generation after generation lived more or less as [...]
In our prior post (“The Evolving Promise of Unbreakable Computer Security”) we suggested that the evolution of quantum computing would make it possible to create virtually unbreakable computer [...]
The idea of “quantum computing” has been around for a while, but lately, some very blue-chip sorts of companies have begun investing in it seriously. Names like HP, [...]
A bit off topic today, but we think those who work for a living and hope one day not to have to, may find this of interest in [...]
We see clients wrestle every day with a number of common complaints, obstacles and productivity-wasters when they talk to us about upgrading their business management systems. These issues [...]
APICS (The American Production and Inventory Control Society, “the premier professional association for supply chain management”) provides a wealth of information both practical and theoretical about how companies [...]