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 65

Discrete manufacturing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Supply Chain Bill of Materials 65

Control Engineering

JANUARY 11, 2023

Supply chain issues: The trend that just won’t quit. It’s impossible to look at any aspect of manufacturing without addressing the elephant in the room: Pandemic-induced supply chain issues continue to impact almost every industry.

Supply Chain 96

Supply Chain Automation Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 96

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. This will ultimately result in supply shortages which will manifest into longer lead times and higher prices for motors. Final thoughts.

Automotive 52

Automotive Lead Time Bill of Materials Supply Chain 52

Control Engineering

AUGUST 28, 2023

A new Festo family of multi-protocol servo drives provides original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) with productivity and cost advantages with less inventory, by preventing supply chain issues and working smarter with this family of servo drives. The change reduces Festo part numbers from 24 to 8.

Automation 52

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

Control Engineering

OCTOBER 25, 2023

WEG’s handling post-pandemic supply chain constraints has led to a 2.5% In late September, the world’s second-largest low voltage ac motor manufacturer, WEG, announced it would acquire the industrial electric motors and generators business from Regal Rexnord for $400 million.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Lead Time Discrete manufacturing Manufacturing 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