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Do I Need To Get A Wheel Alignment And Tire Balance When I Have New Tires Installed?

During my years at the service counter costumers who purchased tires often asked me, "Do I have to have them balanced?" followed by, "Does it need an alignment too?" I understand why consumers ask these questions. Tire balancing coupled with wheel alignment can be expensive. So let's look at why balancing new tires and performing a wheel alignment are necessary. Tire

Why we will no longer be a welcoming church

We’ve decided to quit being a welcoming church. No kidding. We’re giving it up. Like so many congregations, we’ve sunk an amazing amount of time and energy into becoming a welcoming church. We changed worship styles, trained greeters and ushers, wore name tags, brewed coffee, went to workshops on hospitality and put our friendliest people …

This is What a Massive 500 Gallon Propane Tank Explosion Looks Like

If there's one thing that you want to avoid with anything that's propane powered from your grill to your heater, It would most obviously be a situation that would put the propane tank in danger of building up enough pressure to explode and send shrapnel flying everywhere. While these tanks are fitted with safety...

The Way You Hang Your Roll Of Toilet Paper Says A Lot About You

How do you hang your toilet paper? Under the roll and closer to the wall? Or do you hang your toilet paper over the roll? Well, a new study suggests there [...]

Building a More Efficient Industrial Supply Chain

What is a sustainable supply chain?

Learn how sustainable supply chains with green and transparent supply chain operations are being supported by modern technologies.

Building A Supply Chain Strategy For Industry 4.0

Learn how a digital supply chain can improve profitability, productivity, and efficiency – and how you can get started with the Industrial Internet of Things.

How to Boost Supply Chain Resilience

As investments in supply chain resilience rise, leading companies are focusing on these areas.

Six Common Questions About Power Supplies

In this Allied Expert Advice article, an Altech automation expert answers six common questions about power supplies for industrial automation applications.

General Guidelines to Starting an Electric Motor Lube Program

Rolling-element bearings used in electric motors can fail for many reasons. This article discusses effective strategies for minimizing failures caused by incorrect lubricant selection, conta…

Supply chain efficiency and how to boost it

Supply chain efficiency ensures that goods are delivered to customers in the agreed-upon conditions and without incurring cost overruns. With automation and digitalization technologies, companies can deliver the desired service to customers with agility and without making mistakes.

How to Avoid Supply Chain Cyberattacks

This guide defines supply chain cyberattacks and describes how small businesses can defend themselves against this growing cybersecurity risk.

Supply Chain Big Data: Supply Chain Leaders Reap Benefits

Not taking advantage of analyzing properly all the information you receive in supply chain? Supply Chain big data is providing many benefits to companies.

Building the supply chain

Managing an international supply chain is no easy task.

What Is the Supply Chain? Why Is It Important?

What Is the Supply Chain and How Does It Work? We live in a global economy, powered by a complex network of resources, materials, manufacturing, and

Building The Intelligent Supply Chain

An intelligent supply chain connects people with processes and things to enable visibility, communication, planning, analysis, simulations, and execution.

The internet of (supply chain) things

The Internet of Things (IoT) evolution on the consumer device market but how will the IoT impact supply chain?

What is Supply Chain Analytics?

Supply chain analytics is the application of statistical analysis and data mining to the field of supply chain management.

Benefits Of The Smart Supply Chain

In the animal kingdom many animals store food to see them through the difficult winter period, but in the case of the Gray Squirrel it has been shown that 74 percent of their buried stores fail to be recovered. In the age of accelerated industrial obsoletion, some manufacturers have taken a similar approach, stockpiling spare parts for their industrial automation systems in case of equipment failure…

Is Flowcasting the Supply Chain Only for the Few?

The perception that Flowcasting, a process to slash inventories, out-of-stocks, and costs across the supply chain, is a manufacturing solution has led many people to conclude that it's really applicable to only a few companies.