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Supply Chain Chaos: How Companies Are Responding and Adapting to the New Reality

21st Century Tech

A good strategy is to source products and materials from more than one supplier and spread them out over different countries and locales to minimize production delays. An alternative is a business could look at additive manufacturing to 3D print parts and supplies it needs onsite. Image credit: Panumas Yanuthai/Shutterstock.

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IMTS 2024 is open for registration, offers solutions for all manufacturers

Mold Making Technology

Photo Credit: MMT “As part of this transition, AM is becoming an integrated process, not an isolated process (read “ A 3D Printing Retrospective ”),” says Fletcher. Gardner Business Media, parent company of MMT , had its own booth at IMTS last year representing all of its brands.

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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.