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How Additive Manufacturing Can Help Fix the Supply Chain

Fastener News Desk

Efficiency is critical for businesses to remain competitive, so these bottlenecks can be extremely damaging. Industry 4.0 and the cloud are enabling a vast digital manufacturing network in which a print job can be initiated in one part of the world and finished in another, exactly where the part is needed.

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Manufacturing in America 2023: Digitalization, automation, sustainability, productivity

Control Engineering

Garlin Gilchrist, lieutenant governor of Michigan and two-time technology start-up entrepreneur and former Microsoft programmer, said Michigan helps manufacturers with 3D printing, robotics and other automation to help manufacturers grow, in comments at the 2023 Manufacturing in America Summit. Courtesy: Mark T.