Material Handling and Automation

Executives in the manufacturing sector across North America recognize that investing in material handling technologies and solutions is the quickest and most direct route to cutting costs and improving profitability.   However, the problem is, they lack an understanding of the technologies available to help them accomplish this.

Reference Articles

The Publication COVER: Next Generation Manufacturing 1

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Industry Analysts

Going digital
Although slow to take off amongst some manufacturing sectors, digital manufacturing’s potential is finally being realized on a much greater scale. The result is that manufacturing processes can be greatly speeded up, costs saved and lengthy installation of unnecessary equipment avoided. Dick Slansky, Senior Analyst for PLM and Discrete Manufacturing at ARC Advisory Group, highlights some of the benefits.
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Picture perfect
Since the 1960s product design technologies have excelled ensuring that the design process is a more exact, quicker and sophisticated process.
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Enabling innovation through PLM
By Peter Bilello
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Model perfect
Since the late 1980s, rapid prototyping techniques have developed into an integral component of the design process.
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Why IP is the currency of tomorrow
Over half of all companies surveyed in a new study by PricewaterhouseCoopers don’t extract the full value from their intellectual property (IP).
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Integrating PLM Processes
Aberdeen Group Perspective
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Demand-Driven Manufacturing
AMR Research
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