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IBM Investing $730 million to Expand Semiconductor Plant in Canada
IBM announces a $730 million investment in its Bromont, Quebec semiconductor facility, aiming to boost its packaging and testing capabilities.
Indiana Tests Futuristic Highway that Can Charge EVs While Driving
Purdue University and the Indiana DOT are developing a highway that wirelessly charges electric vehicles, aiming to reduce range anxiety and costs.
Week in Review: Baltimore Bridge Price Tag, FTC Fines Williams-Sonoma, and More
Take one last look at last week's top stories including robots helping humans in the warehouse, Peleton vs. Flexport, and delivery discontent.
Robots are Enhancing Human Workers, Not Replacing Them
The future is here - and autonomous robots are taking on all the strenuous tasks so humans can focus on the more analytical ones.

Technology Resources

Boosting Productivity: The Benefits of Automation and AI for Consumer Products Companies
Utilizing technology to solve supply chain problems or seize new business opportunities for consumer products companies.
Unlocking Efficiency: Blue Yonder’s Real-Time Warehouse Management Solution
To maintain a competitive edge in an ever-evolving environment, manufacturers, retailers, distributors and third-party logistics providers need to...


Technology News

Lemonade and the Supply Chain
How can supply chain management be so easy and yet so difficult? Increasing complexity and competition in markets that already operate on low margins make success in the supply chain more important than ever.

Truck Platooning: Driving the Future of Transportation
Truck Platooning is the future of transportation in which trucks drive cooperatively at less than 1 second apart made possible by automated driving technology.

Facebook Internet Drone ‘Aquila’ Ready for Testing
Facebook shows-off the enormous solar-powered plane that may someday beam Internet to isolated communities.

Drones For Good
“Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design.” - Dieter Rams.

Balancing Priorities in the Supply Chain
This paper demonstrates how Data Discovery software helps generate insight and provides decision-makers with increased visibility to help identify risks and opportunities.

How Raytheon Uses Data Visualization, Predictive Analytics, and Big Data as a Competitive Advantage
David Wilkins, Raytheon’s head of contracts and supply chain, explains how new technologies have provided the ability to look across all of their supplier programs and significantly reduce costs while at the same time making their supply chains better, faster, and smoother.

Starbucks: A Technology Company That Sells Coffee
Is there anything Starbucks can’t do? Its COO, Kevin Johnson, tells Jim Cramer how they are firing on all cylinders following their strongest quarter ever in history, and how technology has become as important as selling coffee.

Effective Strategies for Mitigating the Risks of Counterfeit Parts
Counterfeit parts will remain a thorny challenge for the electronics supply chain. However, a disciplined, structured approach can help your company mitigate the risk of counterfeits.

Future of Transportation & Autonomous Flying Cars
Terrafugia premiers the new Outer Mold Line for the TF-X™, the four-seat, vertical takeoff and landing hybrid electric aircraft that will make flying easier and safer than ever before.

Kewill Cloud Products and Services Transitioning to Amazon Web Services Platform
Kewill is working with Amazon to offer Kewill Cloud products and services on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud platform.

Sony Creates Drone Company to Find More Enterprise Customers for Its Image Sensors
Despite the company finding trouble in selling some aspects of its hardware like its TVs, the Japanese company has announced it is to get into the drones business with a new partnership between it and a company called ZMP.

Swiss Post, Swiss WorldCargo and Matternet Start Logistics Drone Tests
The three companies are investigating specific uses of drone technology and examining the cost-effectiveness of these business ideas for the commercial use of logistics drones.

Resnick Distributors Reduces Labor Costs by 30 Percent
Lucas Systems, Inc., announced the results of a recent project at Resnick Distributors, a leading regional distributor serving convenience stores and other retailers in the mid-Atlantic region.

10 Best Practices for Thriving in the API World
The acronym API stands for “Application Programming Interface.” It might not mean anything to most individuals, but for organizations that want to use the cloud, mobile, big data, and the Internet of Things to introduce new business models and product offerings, it means everything.

Forget About Cloud Infrastructure, It’s Now About Apps & API’s, Says Amazon’s CTO
At the Amazon Web Services Summit (AWS) in New York City yesterday, Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, spent two hours explaining why the cloud changes the game for application developers.

3 Ways Technology Is Transforming The Supply Chain
Because of close integration, technology in and around the supply chain is now a vital part of what makes life possible, and it's only going to get more integrated as time goes on.

Enter the Smart (Internet of Things) Warehouse
Warehouses, a key link in the supply chain, need to embrace Internet of Everything to reduce equipment damage and create an error-free process.

Supply Chain Intelligence: Descriptive, Prescriptive, and Predictive Optimization
The goal of any analytics solution is to provide the organization with actionable insights for smarter decisions and better business outcomes, however, different types of analytics provide different types of insights.

Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire OpenDNS
Acquisition to accelerate Cisco's cloud delivered security portfolio as cyber attacks increase in number and sophistication - OpenDNS provides advanced threat protection for any device, anywhere, anytime.

2015 is Getting an Extra Second and that Could Be Problematic for The Internet
Today, June 30th 2015, at precisely 23:59:59, the world’s atomic clocks will pause for a single second, or, to be more precise, they’ll change to the uncharted time of 23:59:60 - before ticking over to the more worldly hour of 00:00:00 on the morning of July 1st, 2015.


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