Smart machines can provide manufacturers with invaluable real-time insights into shop floor productivity, inventory, and potential quality and maintenance issues. But buying new machinery to harness the Internet of Things (IoT) can be hard to justify, especially when interest rates remain high. An effective option to IoT success is to add sensors to existing equipment … Read more
Forter, the Trust Platform for digital commerce, has released findings from its 2024 Consumer Trust Premium Report, which explores the evolving relationship between consumer shopping habits and brand trust, based on 2,000 survey respondents in the US and UK. Coined the ‘Trust Premium’, the report revealed U.K. consumers surveyed are now willing to spend 48% more, … Read more
Braehead Foods, one of Scotland’s largest food wholesalers, is using Podfather’s fleet planning, route optimisation and ePOD software to streamline deliveries following their partnership with national food service company Reynolds. Braehead delivers quality produce across Scotland, and following the Reynolds agreement the company will use Podfather to help control costs, maintain service levels and respond to … Read more
Portnox, provider of cloud-native, zero trust access control solutions, today unveiled the results of its latest survey, ‘CISO Perspectives for 2025’, revealing critical insights into the challenges faced by Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) at large enterprises. The survey, which polled 200 CISOs from companies with annual revenues exceeding $500 million, highlights growing concerns around the … Read more
Boeing and unions arrived at a stalemate in the third week of a standoff over pay, with Boeing withdrawing a 30% pay offer for striking workers. The Guardian reports that the U.S. planemaker said it had removed its offer that would result in a pay increase by almost a third over three years for 33,000 … Read more
S&P Global Ratings is weighing downgrading Boeing Co.’s credit score to junk October 8, as the company continues to suffer from the fallout of a protracted labor strike. The credit grader estimates that the planemaker will incur a cash outflow of approximately $10 billion in 2024, due in part to costs associated with the strike. … Read more
Kenya Airways Plc, the state-controlled national carrier, wants to gain some control of the capital’s biggest airport even as authorities discuss concessions with private players to run the regional aviation hub. The Kenyan government has received a privately initiated proposal from a unit of Adani Group to revamp the airport first built in precolonial Kenya, … Read more
Boeing workers voted on the night of September 12 to strike for higher pay, halting production of the planemaker’s strongest-selling aircraft. The workers belonging to the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), Boeing’s largest union, voted 94.6% to reject the agreement, and 96% in favor of striking. In a statement released after the … Read more
Pierre Poilievre, leader of Canada’s Conservative Party. Canada’s Conservative party chief says he stands with pilots in a labor dispute with Air Canada, as the carrier prepares to suspend flights ahead of a potential strike. Pierre Poilievre, leader of the opposition and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s main rival, said he would not support any … Read more
A lack of clarity over carbon credits that airlines can buy to meet their emissions obligations under a global offsetting scheme is causing confusion, according to Trafigura Group. There has been “a lot of discussion, a lot of confusion,” over the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation, or Corsia, said Hannah Hauman, global … Read more
