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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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How Additive Manufacturing Can Help Fix the Supply Chain

Fastener News Desk

By Clare Scott A supply chain crisis has been affecting the world in recent years, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic. This has taken the form of long lead times, as well as stalling of production when parts needed for manufacturing fail. The nature of AM can shorten lead times, too. Industry 4.0

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Celebrating excellence in growth

Manufacturer's Monthly

their risks and enable their people to deliver on Industry 4.0. They’ve got order books at record highs, but are struggling to deliver in terms of the global supply chain in particular with high lead times and high freight costs. The skills shortage is also causing a lot of headaches at the moment.

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EOS Helps Manufacturer Atlas Copco Cut Costs By 30%, Lead Times By 90% and Win New Business with the EOS P 396 Solution

i4.0 today

By transitioning to in-house polymer-based Additive Manufacturing (AM) with EOS technology, Atlas Copco has cut production costs by 30% and lead times by 92%. This brought AM serial production of component manufacture in-house, shortened its supply chain and lowered its environmental impact. Today Magazine.

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The Impact of AI for Industrial MRO Management

ATS

It can spot consumption trends and patterns (seasonality, for example), reduce obsolescence by improving linkages between machinery and spare parts , and address supply chain challenges like extended lead times. Leveraging cloud computing and IoT in MRO Industry 4.0 They can do the same in MRO.

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SQP Engineering adopts FX20 3D printer to accelerate production

AU Manufacturing

Operating as an industrial manufacturing equipment provider specialising in machining, SQP has had to face various logistical issues and supply chain disruptions since its inception in 2006. Most of SQP’s business has historically been supplying precision-machined products for mining equipment, but Industry 4.0

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Three motion control trends for 2023

Control Engineering

These top three trends in the industry are clearly still being driven in direct and indirect ways by ongoing pandemic effects. Supply chain issues: The trend that just won’t quit. While connectivity and digitalization are key elements to helping customers achieve their Industry 4.0