Tag: Industrial Equipment
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Buying enterprise technology internationally is only half of the procurement challenge. The other half is getting it safely from the supplier to the destination. Servers, network systems, telecommunications hardware and industrial equipment present logistics requirements that differ significantly from ordinary commercial goods. They may be expensive, fragile, configuration-specific, unusually heavy or subject to complex customs…
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Industrial facilities operate on a fundamentally different technology cycle from most office and consumer environments. A production line, control system, packaging machine or specialized industrial platform may remain productive for ten, twenty or even thirty years. The equipment itself may continue performing reliably long after its original manufacturer introduces a newer generation. For manufacturers, this…