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That approach may carry a lower initial bill-of-materials, but it often sacrifices quality with substantial wire harnessing leading to a single point of failure that can only be solved by replacing an expensive centralized module or debugging a labyrinth of wiring connections.
You have to create a system which is sustainable – to actually start to build out their bill of materials properly, educate their customers around the new order process and start to get their team on the floor away from writing everything down in a notebook or on a whiteboard.”.
“That line going down has the potential to make the supplier’s customers stop production, too, because otherwise, they’d have to deviate from their bill of materials, deviating from their design, and, at that point, they become liable. “AM AM shouldn’t necessarily be the number one production method.
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I don’t think the supply chain for the country is broken in any way, shape or form,” said David Latona , CEO and president, Tompkins Solutions (Raleigh, N.C.). The company’s special tools department manufactures custom and semi-custom applications in lead-forming and bending, special cutting devices, parts handling and more.
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