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UNEX Manufacturing, Inc., the provider of order picking solutions, has introduced the UNEX Configurator, a design tool that generates a 3D image and bill of materials for users' custom carton flow solutions.

Manufacturing & Logistics IT spoke to a number of experts from the vendor and analyst communities about recent trends and ongoing areas of development within the world of Transportation Management Systems.

The March 2018 edition of Manufacturing & Logistics IT features a Special Technology Report on Transportation Management.

For this report, we spoke with experts from the vendor and analyst communities about recent trends and ongoing areas of development within the world of Transportation Management – including those concerning integration, Cloud/SaaS and legislation.

The announcement of a Brexit transitional period ending in December 2020 will be a welcome relief for manufacturing and retail businesses exporting and importing from the EU, according to the Freight Transport Association (FTA), the only organisation which represents all of logistics in the UK.

Big Data is an increasingly coined term used to reference the vast, varied and often complex sources of information now available to businesses. Through the sophisticated algorithms built into modern Big Data Analytics tools, valuable business insight can be derived through harvesting better structured, relevant data from manifold unstructured sources.

Manufacturing & Logistics IT spoke with a number of experts from the vendor and analyst communities about recent developments within the Big Data Analytics arena.

Renovotec, the UK independent rugged hardware, software and services provider for warehousing and distribution, manufacturing and retail companies, has acquired rugged hardware maintenance company, Datatrade. The acquisition was made by Renovotec Investments.

XPO Logistics, provider of transport and logistics solutions, has been awarded a Certificate of Merit by Nissan Motor Manufacturing UK (NMUK) at its annual Operational Awards for the fourth consecutive year.

Softbox Systems, provider of cold chain packaging for the pharmaceutical industry, has opened a new manufacturing site in The Netherlands, in partnership with Kingspan Unidek.

Manufacturing & Logistics IT spoke with a number of experts from the vendor and analyst communities about recent developments within the Warehouse Management System and Voice-directed picking space – including those concerning SaaS/Cloud and Big Data.

Family owned lifting equipment manufacturer Penny Hydraulics Ltd opened a new £2M manufacturing facility in Clowne, Derbyshire on Thursday 5th October. British banker and former chairman of Barclays bank, Sir David Walker opened the new plant following completion of the 18-month project.