Schneider Electric to buy PTC, Rakuten Drive hit by unauthorized access, variable hardcover binding reaches 1,800 cycles an hour — and 8 more | BPJ News
What do a major manufacturing acquisition, new logistics hubs and variable finishing equipment mean for printers’ capital spending, maintenance, packaging and production work?
Three stories converge in this edition: software, maintenance and variable finishing. In logistics, the next signal is whether orders for packaging and promotional materials will break down into store-level and regional units.
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A major industrial software acquisition, the consolidation of web press maintenance and a new finishing system that can change specifications for every book have arrived at the same time.
The question in logistics is whether distributed hubs will shift packaging and promotional-material orders to store-level and regional batches.
Unauthorized cloud access also forces companies entrusted with customer artwork to review their administrative privileges.…
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