Most recent articles

Vertical Lift Storage: When the Component Comes to the Operator

Vertical Lift Storage: When the Component Comes to the Operator

Navigation of the warehouse operator using light indication. World’s gone mad, what was enough yesterday, is not enough today. Production batches are getting smaller and the profitability limits of yesterday are being reconsidered today.

How Does the EDI Communication in the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Car Plant Look Like?

How Does the EDI Communication in the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Car Plant Look Like?

The seventh largest carmaker in the world, FCA – Fiat Chrysler Automobiles in the USA, supports the process of electronic communication with suppliers using so called feedback messages.

Integration of Systems with MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

Integration of Systems with MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

Integration of systems in a company is important not only for the elimination of errors or current data availability in separate systems.

Interview with Tomáš Pivovarník, Amphenol‑Tuchel Electronics

Interview with Tomáš Pivovarník, Amphenol‑Tuchel Electronics

The SappyMES implementation project upon agreed time and financial conditions. Czech branch of the German Amphenol-Tuchel Electronics GmbH company, manufacturing connectors and electrical cable bundles not only for OEMs, implemented the SappyMES system for the production data collection.

The Data War Has Been Declared, Production Including

The Data War Has Been Declared, Production Including

The avalanche of terms from the world includes Industry 4.0, Advanced manufacturing, Smart factory, Internet of Things. Each of them has a slightly different meaning but we can find common base too. Let us analyse them from the production data point of view.

Optimizing Loading and Unloading with YMS

Optimizing Loading and Unloading with YMS

The ever growing variety and number of products means a growing number of suppliers and customers for production companies. As a result the number of trucks to be loaded and unloaded everyday is growing too.

Boom of Augmented Reality?

Boom of Augmented Reality?

Similarly to every new technology, the augmented reality is connected with numerous myths and unanswered questions. It might be surprising but answers to many of them have been known since a long time already. 

Planning of SMT Lines and Consequent Processes in Electronics

Planning of SMT Lines and Consequent Processes in Electronics

Practically all companies fabricating electronics use the SMT (Surface Mount Technology). In most of them, however, the production process is not finished by automatic installation.

Industry 4.0, Time for a Change – and the Czech Republic Is Sleeping

Industry 4.0, Time for a Change – and the Czech Republic Is Sleeping

Whether we call the Industry 4.0 a revolution or evolution, obviously it is an unrepeatable opportunity for small and large (states and companies) to change their conditions of existence. However, if the one having the reins in the hands does not awake, how the commons might master the issue.

Who Will Win the IoT Global Network Race?

Who Will Win the IoT Global Network Race?

The starting shot was heard. The race has been started, regarding who would build the global communication standard for the Internet of Things (IoT).

The TAL Conference Has Attracted Well‑Known Experts

The TAL Conference Has Attracted Well‑Known Experts

The Trends in Automotive Logistics conference (TAL) took place on June 9th, 2016. This annual and eagerly awaited action took place in an interesting and attractive environment again – the 28th floor of the Prague highest building, in Pankrác.

Magna: Transfer of Production Planning Experience from the Czech Plant to Germany

Magna: Transfer of Production Planning Experience from the Czech Plant to Germany

Magna is a leader in the automotive industry for the production and supply of components. Every year it places in the higher ranks of the top 100 global automotive industry suppliers.

Make It Digital! Your Reward Will Be Flexibility and Speed

Make It Digital! Your Reward Will Be Flexibility and Speed

One of leaders in the industrial automation market, the American company Rockwell Automation claims that thanks to principles of so called Smart Manufacturing, the price of a personal computer will drop to USD 300, and of a car to USD 3,000. 

Is It Possible to Have a Stable, yet Agile It Infrastructure? Bimodal Architecture Is the Answer

Is It Possible to Have a Stable, yet Agile It Infrastructure? Bimodal Architecture Is the Answer

Digital world of nowadays brings increasingly pressing and more often demands placed on enterprise IT departments.

EDI without EDI in Days of Industrial Revolution 4.0

EDI without EDI in Days of Industrial Revolution 4.0

With each new project and customer, always the same questions come to play even today. What new requirements for the data exchange will the client have for me?

loading