Manufacturer's Monthly

MARCH 11, 2025

Image: /stock.adobe.com For Australia’s discrete manufacturers, inventory management is pivotal in ensuring the smooth operation of production processes, maintaining product quality, and achieving sustainable growth. Efficient inventory management helps manufacturers save resources, cut costs, and avoid disruptions.

Discrete manufacturing 68

Discrete manufacturing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Supply Chain Bill of Materials 68

Control Engineering

AUGUST 17, 2022

As this trend progresses, it will impact vendors’ ability to secure the electric steel necessary for production, resulting in longer lead times and higher prices for customers. The process which takes place after crude steel is formed dictates the kinds of things the material can be used for. Final thoughts.

Automotive 52

Automotive Lead Time Bill of Materials Supply Chain 52

Control Engineering

AUGUST 28, 2023

Regarding supply chain, Festo’s reduction to eight CMMT part numbers strengthened the company’s ability to support servo drives customers – fewer parts to inventory and fewer drives to manufacture and support. Machine builders welcome this move as servo drives across the industry remain in short supply and have long lead times, Festo said.

Automation 52

Automation Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Supply Chain Assembly Line 52

ATS

MARCH 6, 2025

Mixed mode manufacturing refers to any production environment that uses more than one manufacturing mode and does so under the same roof or within the same system. For example, carrying out discrete manufacturing in one facility and process manufacturing in another is not mixed mode.

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Discrete manufacturing Lead Time Bill of Materials 52