The personal computer industry is in crisis, and computer manufacturing has declined over the past five years, as the domestic market has become saturated. High import competitions and advances in substitute technology have caused fierce price competition in the industry. This, in addition to decreasing input costs has hindered the industry’s revenue growth over the […]
Private planes and jets used to be for billionaires and celebrities, imagining that the skies were filled with Louis Vuitton trunks and plenty of businessmen setting their own agendas or reviewing their appointments. However, in the last few years things have changed and a whole new market has opened up, where tech is leading the […]
Frugal innovation for the medically undeserved Frugal engineering drives new products for the unique needs of a target consumer base in lesser developed economies. In the history of medical innovation, advances in technology have been inextricably linked to increases in cost. However, we are at a unique moment in which the insular world of medicine […]
Artical By: Suwan Juntiwasarakij, Ph.D. (Senior Editor) The Last Transport Model that Man Has Ever Made Also known as Transportation-as-a-Service (TaaS), Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) is model of transportation which is shift from personally owned modes of transportation and toward mobility solutions that are consumed as a service. This service paradigm shift is made possible by combining […]
Driven by emerging economies, humanity has encountered the unprecedented urban growth as people are more than ever living in megacities worldwide. Estimated by the World Health Organization, all the major cities around the globe are being added with approximately one million on top of the populations they have already had, and nearly two-third of the […]
Advancing Digital Technology in Supply Chain: The Equation of Increasing Profitability. The customer just placed the online order and received a delivery confirmation. Within the next 24 hours, the product will reach the door. Everyone wants the fastest speed. Today, we need to look at the advances in digital supply chains. Both in B2C and […]
Logistics 4.0 and Supply Chain Management 4.0 or smart supply chain management concern the various aspects of end-to-end logistics and supply chain management in the context of Industry 4.0, the Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, emerging technologies, advanced data analytics and (semi-)autonomous decisions enabled by AI. How Industry 4.0 is about more than just the […]
In the age when every manufacturer is looking for a way to optimize their manufacturing process, even logistic system cannot avoid such trend. It is undeniable: to err is human. Works done by humans cannot avoid mistakes and there are also a shortage of human labor and other problems which take place in many parts […]
Two of the world’s most influential research and advisory firms predict major acceleration in artificial intelligence (AI) use as more businesses look to make the digital transformation leap. Forrester projects AI investment tripled in 2017, and Gartner expects AI to be pervasive in almost every new software product and service by 2020. With its cognitive interfaces, in-depth […]
Let’s start with the contradicting terms of automation and flexibility. As a warehouse management professional you would often equal automation with a complex MHE system (Materials Handling Enterprise Systems) including conveyors, sorters, high-bay storage cranes etc. Most of us looking for such solutions think of it as a black box, a closed system supplied by […]
