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What is supply chain?

Fastener News Desk

The supply chain is the interconnected journey that raw materials, components, and goods take before their assembly and sale to customers. McKinsey & Company – Listen to the article: What is supply chain? In contrast, a value chain encompasses all the individual steps that are taken to create a marketable product.

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CSIRO awarded Boeing’s Supplier of the Year

Manufacturer's Monthly

Boeing , the world’s largest aerospace company, has named CSIRO , Australia’s national science agency, a Supplier of the Year for the fifth time since 2010. CSIRO was previously named a Boeing Supplier of the Year in 2018, 2017, 2016 and 2010.

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Without a Purpose-Built MES: Aerospace & Defense Manufacturers Risk Contract Loss & Revenue Decline

iBASEt

Aerospace and Defense (A&D) manufacturers face unique challenges: constant design updates, strict quality and compliance standards. These requirements are enforced up and down the A&D supply chain, from preproduction to program ramp-up and sustainment (maintenance repair and overhaul).

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Emirates test flight runs plane engine entirely on sustainable aviation fuel

E&T

Emirates worked alongside partners GE Aerospace, Boeing, Honeywell, Neste and Virent to procure and develop a blend of SAF that closely replicates the properties of conventional jet fuel. Emirates’ first flight powered by SAF blended with jet fuel was in 2017, operating from Chicago O’Hare airport on a Boeing 777.

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Digital Continuity, A Driving Force in Manufacturing Productivity

iBASEt

In 2017 the British government published a public domain document that defines what digital continuity is and why it is relevant to business. This may be measured in years or even decades in the case of many aerospace and defense programs. Digital Continuity Defined Digital continuity is not unique to manufacturing.

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Blasting Australian made components into space

Manufacturer's Monthly

The team of three are mechanical and aerospace engineers who met at the University of Queensland and started the company in 2020 while they were still students. “We We were grouped together as a team in university around 2017, and we all wanted to influence the growing space industry in Australia,” Uscinski said.

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Forging the future of advanced composites

Manufacturer's Monthly

Fresh from university, Joe Bryant began his career as an aerospace engineer with Airbus, working on the company’s first composite helicopter, the ARH Tiger. In 2017, I decided I wanted to branch out and take a journey on my own to make a difference.” Because we’re small, we don’t have the massive overheads of the bigger organisations.