A FedEx Corp. employee sorts packages for delivery in the Midtown neighborhood of New York, U.S., on Friday, Dec. 4, 2015. FedEx Corp. is scheduled to release earnings figures on December 16. Photographer: John Taggart/Bloomberg
After Intel Corp couldn’t find a device that indicated when sensitive chip-making machines tilted too much during shipping, the company decided to build one itself.
The maker of microprocessors teamed up with Honeywell International Inc, which makes hand-held warehouse computers, to create a system that can monitor vibration, temperature, unauthorised openings, and a host of other things on pallets of goods or even individual packages. It is being tested by shippers including Kuehne & Nagel International AG, DHL Worldwide Express and Bertelsmann SE.
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