How to fill manufacturing’s skills gap amidst the pandemic

July 30, 2020

After the COVID-19 pandemic abruptly ground the world to a halt in the first few months of 2020, it created both new challenges for the manufacturing industry and exacerbated those that had existed for some time. According to an article by McKinsey & Company analysts,1 the future we expected by 2020 hasn’t quite come to pass. Rather than a significant shift towards more automation and a smaller workforce, the opposite is true, due in part to the pandemic.

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Founded in 1923 by Louis Muskat, who introduced a packaging machine that more than doubled the typical production of the day, Triangle has a reputation for applying state of the art innovation to help our customers become more competitive. Today the family’s third generation continues a tradition of innovation in packaging machinery.

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Finding the Right Technology Strategy for Your Unique Business Priorities

whitePaper | January 24, 2020

Small-to-midsize businesses in manufacturing and distribution industries are focused on growing revenue, reducing costs, and improving customer experience. However, nearly 40% of companies don’t believe their current business infrastructure and applications (e.g., enterprise resource planning) are adequate for delivering these business priorities.

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End-to-End Automation Hype or Hyperautomation?

whitePaper | June 3, 2022

Digital operations are key to maintaining a competitive edge, but most organizations today operate with a mix of different levels of automation, from completely automated to fully manual processes. This variation across the value chain impacts efficiency and customer satisfaction, since an end-to-end process may move through several disjointed manual and semi-automated tasks to reach completion. Moving to a fully digital operation with end-to-end intelligent automation can significantly improve existing business operations, while enabling true transformation: the creation of completely new business models that allow an organization to outperform the competition and expand into new markets.

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Palantir Foundry for Industry 4.0: Scaling the Future of Enterprise Manufacturing Operations

whitePaper | March 9, 2022

We were founded in 2003 and started building software for use by the intelligence community in the United States to assist in counterterrorism investigations and operations, as well as by commercial enterprises. We have built two principal software platforms, Palantir Gotham and Palantir Foundry.

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Autonomous vehicles have a lot to learn. We can help

whitePaper | May 21, 2020

That experience demands a platform supported by increased connectivity and cloud infrastructure. The industry will require immense computing and processing power for all the information that AVs rely on and will continue to rely on in a future with 5G.

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An Additive Manufacturing Breakthrough: A How-to Guide for Scaling and Overcoming Key Challenges

whitePaper | January 11, 2022

While the technological maturity of AM has been demonstrated in specific industries, individual firms still struggle with its adoption and implementation at industrial scale. Companies underestimate the extent to which the adoption of AM is first and foremost a learning process that involves the entire value chain and requires specific AM expertise that needs to be acquired. Throughout this learning process, a wide range of challenges may hinder the progress and success of implementation.

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The New Face of Manufacturing

whitePaper | March 6, 2020

The manufacturing industry is undergoing tremendous change. The industrial revolution brought us assembly lines and mass production. The result was a dramatic increase in worker productivity. The digital revolution brings a host of new opportunities, enabled by data and the power and intelligence of cloud computing. However, it’s the talent, skill, and creativity of your people that determine success.

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Triangle Package Machinery

Founded in 1923 by Louis Muskat, who introduced a packaging machine that more than doubled the typical production of the day, Triangle has a reputation for applying state of the art innovation to help our customers become more competitive. Today the family’s third generation continues a tradition of innovation in packaging machinery.

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