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Productivity gains on the back of software introduction
11 Jun 2008
If you look back over the last 50 years, the introduction of software to monitor productivity has definitely been one of the major advances in helping to improve it, says Associated British Ports' Danny Carmichael.
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The availability of radio frequency links means that virtually anything nowadays can be tracked in real time. As a result, data can be extracted from the system and presented in a variety of formats.
On the downside, he says, this data can
also be manipulated. Some terminals could therefore theoretically suggest they
are achieving productivity levels over and above the reality on the ground. The
quantity and diversity of data available to terminal managers is quite
astonishing, he adds.
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