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5G’s role in the adoption of enterprise augmented reality

Control Engineering

As is fitting to a manufacturing market leader, Haier started their digital transformation journey as early as 2017. They created COSMOPlat, an industrial internet platform to digitalize all factory processes including supply chain and logistics workflows. Figure 10: Case study Haier summary. Figure 11: Case study Mazak summary.

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Made in the USA - Season 2 Episode 6: Why, and How, Hardinge is Reshoring Machine Tool Production

Modern Machine Shop

Once they understood how to do that stuff, then we start sourcing locally. And then over time, we built a very good engineering team over there could design machine tools to fit that same model with the market wanted, which was a low-cost, commodity is the wrong term, but a low-cost commodity machine that was affordable.

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Made in the USA - Season 2 Episode 1: A Return From China

Modern Machine Shop

After graduating, Scott worked for a couple of large companies and eventually landed at a foreign-owned manufacturer of vacuums and power tools that sourced many of its parts from China. We need to make sure that everything fits. His introduction to the possibilities of manufacturing in China happened there. He lived there.

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Made in the USA - Season 2 Episode 2: Man, No Smoke!

Modern Machine Shop

The word integrated is an integral part of the foundation of our company, we are able to combine processes from multiple windows and provide our customers with one single window where they can source their parts, their products, whether it's an individual part or a product, or whether it is an assembled part or a product.

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Made in the USA - Season 2 Episode 5: A Motorcycle Supply Chain in Amish Country

Modern Machine Shop

They include pragmatic and logistical considerations about supply chain distribution, concerns about intellectual property theft, the loss of brand reputation and customer loyalty, as well as what a former guest on the series called feelings of economic patriotism. The motives behind these companies decisions are varied.