Manufacturing

The manufacturing landscape is facing dramatic changes, creating and capturing value in this new environment will require understanding the factors driving change in specific manufacturing sectors, focusing on activities that convey a structural advantage, leveraging the skills and capabilities of third parties, fundamentally rethinking business models, and identifying influence points.

Apple supplier Foxconn is considering a $7 billion investment that would establish a U.S.-based LCD display manufacturing hub that could create as many as 50,000 new jobs.

Integrating enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, supply chain management, and legacy systems lead to greater manufacturing innovation, setting the foundation to move beyond business models that don’t stay in step with customers’ fast-changing needs.

Modern Demand-Driven Manufacturers are today’s truly Lean thinkers and are continuously improving their operations to create more opportunities for innovation, a recent report by Synchrono addresses challenges, innovation and technologies associated with manufacturing digitization, visibility and synchronization for 2017.

When it comes to product development innovation, failure is not an option. It’s mandatory.

Lean manufacturers continue to address throughput issues by automating systems and creating better processes to eliminate waste in all of its forms.

The primary goal of most manufacturers has remained constant over the last 50 years: make money now and into the future, yet the underlying process and objectives to achieve this goal have changed considerably.

If you’re considering a shift from a traditional, push-based MRP manufacturing system to a more progressive pull-based system, this white paper is a must read. While contrasting both types of systems, the paper explores the nature of pull-based manufacturing and the evolution of Kanban systems to support today’s demand-driven manufacturing environment.

Many of today’s discrete manufacturers are overcoming the challenges of legacy push-based systems by turning to pull-based eKanban systems that focus on throughput and flow and result in a reduction in costs and inventory.

Demand-driven and lean production allows manufacturers to be more responsive to consumer needs while increasing their own profitability, It also reduces the reliance on forecasts by linking demand signals and providing real-time data directly to suppliers.

Modern manufacturing is using automation and technology in new and ever changing ways, significant competitive advantage is gained through these advancements.

The UPS SAP collaboration will transform the ad hoc world of industrial 3D printing into a seamless, on-demand manufacturing process from order through manufacturing and delivery.

This white paper is part of a series of papers published by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) on disruptive technologies that could reshape supply chains over the next decade.

The controversy over reshoring has flared up again thanks largely to some research published by the managing consulting firm A.T. Kearney in December 2015.

There's been rampant noise over the last few months concerning the precipitous decline of the American manufacturing sector, this noise is much ado about nothing.

U.S. manufacturing activity sank to a two-year low in November, according to a report Monday, suggesting a setback in the struggling sector that has shown recent signs of stabilization in some parts of the country.

Opel, Europe’s 3rd largest automotive manufacturer, is slashing manufacturing tool production costs by up to 90% using its Stratasys 3D Printers, as well as 3D printing assembly tools in less than 24 hours.

While economists debate how much manufacturing drives the U.S. economy, there is no question that industrial growth remains a powerful force in many regions of the country.

General Electric Co said on Monday it will move production of large, gas-powered engines to Canada from Wisconsin, along with 350 jobs, to access export financing no longer available in the United States.

Growth in the U.S. manufacturing sector showed no month-over-month change during September, staying at August's sluggish pace which was the weakest in almost two years.