Author: EUM
Let’s go automatic
You’re in the shop, ready to pay and the shortest queue is the automatic checkout, so you take a chance. You watch other customers testing the waters, looking for the barcode on a packet of toilet paper, looking for the code on the bananas they forgot to weigh or waiting for a clerk to come […]
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Flying in silence
When I was a child, I lived with my family next to an airport, We could tell without looking whether the plane passing overhead was an international or a local flight just by the noise it made. You could hear them coming from far away and it often cut through conversations and rattled the windows […]
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What does logistics mean?
The Oxford dictionary description of the word “logistics” is, of course, correct, but we can go a little further. In essence, logistics is the cost-effective management of cargo. Originally it was a military term, used for supplying troops with supplies and tools needed for their excursions. Logistics now refers to how things are moved and […]
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Ice Roads
I recently heard about a very interesting example of a transport system designed for a society with very specific resources and challenges: the Siberian “ice roads”. Engineering is about meeting the needs of society using the resources available. This is a clear example of basic logistics applied to modern times. Salekhard Salekhard is a town […]
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