Category: Financial

Packaging is one of the most reputable robotic applications in food production. The unchanging nature of products in the packaging step makes it easier to automate these tasks compared to prior tasks in the production line.

Packaging challenges facing manufacturers today call for multifaceted solutions. Increasingly manufacturing tasks in FMCG (fast-moving consumer goods) are driven by customer demands for aspects such as faster dispatch times and more customization.

Robotic technology has evolved to meet these demands with more and more complex uses. When they were first built, mechanical robots were mainly used for more straightforward errands like lifting massive loads.

Today, they can be used as packaging robots for palletizing, de-panning, de-nesting, and warehousing. But, first, let’s look at why robots are used for packaging applications as well as the packaging tasks they are expected to implement.

The Reasons Why Robots Are Used for Packaging Applications Include:

Greater Overall Flexibility… Read more

Unless you’ve been on a deserted island for the past few years, you know just how crucial it is for businesses to build an online presence. And, your competitors know it, too. Building a site from the ground up can be time-consuming and challenging, and that’s why many business owners hire agencies to do all the hard work for them.

If you’re on a shoestring budget, you may think professional web design is out of reach. However, site builders are simple to use, don’t require coding experience, and won’t blow your budget. In this guide, we’ll review some of the biggest benefits of site building tools.

Intelligent Design

A primary advantage of Website Builders is that no experience is required to use them successfully. Site builders come with numerous themes and templates you can use to create a business website, and they make it easy to build responsive, multi-page sites … Read more

The value that women bring in any industry is praiseworthy. A mortgage is also one such industry where the value women bring to the table is appreciated by lenders, brokerages, and clients. Their exemplary leadership skills, financial acumen, and empathetic approach have brought a drastic transformation in the mortgage industry and encouraged other women to pursue a career in it. One such empowering woman is Veronica Love, the Senior Vice President of TMG The Mortgage Group. Veronica is truly one of the most passionate and giving members within the Canadian mortgage brokering and real estate landscapes. Throughout the past 16 years, she has held various progressive roles within mortgage brokering and real estate industries where she continues to leave a positive impression for her industry efforts as well as selfless community service and monetary donation/volunteer work.

Debbie and Grant Thomas founded TMG The Mortgage Group 31 years ago. The … Read more

A 12-year-old boy from London has made about £290,000 during the school holidays, after creating a series of pixelated artworks called Weird Whales and selling non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

With NFTs, artwork can be “tokenised” to create a digital certificate of ownership that can be bought and sold.

They do not generally give the buyer the actual artwork or its copyright.

Benyamin Ahmed is keeping his earnings in the form of Ethereum – the crypto-currency in which they were sold.

This means they could go up or down in value and there is no back-up from the authorities if the digital wallet in which he is holding them is hacked or compromised.

He has never had a traditional bank account.

Extremely proud

Benyamin’s classmates are as yet unaware of his new-found crypto-wealth, although he has made YouTube videos about his hobby, which he enjoys alongside swimming, badminton and taekwondo.

“My advice … Read more

The UK has lost 83% of its main department stores in the five years since the collapse of the BHS chain.

The figure highlights the extent of the upheaval in the High Street as the Covid pandemic sped up changes in shopping habits.

The data, compiled by commercial property information firm CoStar Group, also reveals that more than two-thirds of these shops remain unoccupied.

Some 237 big stores have yet to be taken over by a new business.

“The data undoubtedly highlights the acceleration of change in the retail sector in recent years, which the pandemic has only exacerbated,” said CoStar Group’s head of analytics, Mark Stansfield.

CoStar tracked the UK’s largest chains, from BHS and Beales to Debenhams and House of Fraser, from 2016 to the present day.

Five years ago, they had 467 stores between them. Now, however, only 79 are left.

CoStar Group also examined what had … Read more