The Exchange; Waco, Texas Size: 650,000 square feet Products: General merchandise SKUs: 18,000 Throughput: Ships 25,000 cases per day Shifts: 2 shifts a day/5 days per week Employees: 400 A new conveyor and sortation system ...
The Archos GamePad is a tablet designed specifically for playing games—one of several others coming out some time this year, including the Wikipad, NVidia's Project Shield, and the Razer Edge Pro. The GamePad combines the features of ...
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Watch our automotive experts chat about new road test results and answer reader questions in the third episode of "Talking Cars with Consumer Reports." This podcast was recorded at our Connecticut Auto Test Center, within our always-busy ...
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Most shoppers approach buying a used car with trepidation. Sure, used cars cost less than new ones, but they carry risks--namely, inconvenient break downs and out-of-pocket repairs after the warranty has expired. However, used cars have a ...
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The base Exchange store is both a perk and tradition of military life. Every day, millions of active duty and retired service personnel and their families shop at the Exchange for everything from candy bars to lawn mowers. Merchandise is ...
A bathroom speaks as much about a home, as a home does for itself. That is why spending time designing and decorating your bathroom is well worth all the effort you put in. No one likes cramped, unclean, and mismatched spaces, and you need ...
Petroglyph today announced that its Free-to-Play Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) game, Battle for Graxia, has launched with new features that include a new Replay Mode which allows players to play back recorded matches. Also included ...
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In the last two years, there has been a lot of buzz around a new generation of warehouse control systems (WCS). These solutions are taking on the order fulfillment tasks once assigned to a warehouse management system (WMS), especially in ...
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A carpenter can only do so much with a broken hammer. Then again, if he has an endless supply of hammers, or a dedicated hammer repairman nearby, he might not be too bothered to care for them. Lift trucks, as critical to a distribution ...
Ten years ago, most cell phones had single-color displays, and they were primarily used to make phone calls. Now glance at the phone in your pocket, think about its capabilities beyond dialing a number, and you will have some sense of the ...
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In March this year, Japan's industrial production increased 0.2 percent over the previous month, showing a month-on-month increase for the fourth consecutive month. Japan's industrial output showed a decrease of 7.3 percent from March in ...
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When it comes to designing - or perhaps redesigning if you are opting for a renovation project - the interior of a room, many people overlook the finer details, which more often than not can be the make-or-break elements which tie together ...
For the Cologne-based enterprise Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum, one of the major high-tech sources for vacuum pumps and systems, the planning company Dr. Sch?nheit + Partner; also based in Cologne, engineered the construction of a new, modern ...
Iron Man 3 movie star Robert Downey Jr has praised the LEGO Iron Man toys on TV show Daybreak. The actor apparently said the toys were "really cute". He also joked that the way the LEGO Iron Man was sitting made him look "as drunk as a ...
There's a technology race going on in the bicycle industry, and it's leaving retailers in a scramble to keep up. Frame and component makers have introduced a slew of new axle, bottom bracket and fork interfaces in the past few years as they ...
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