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Random Thoughts About Reshoring and Buying American

Modern Machine Shop

The various savings from having manufacturing close — reductions in shipping cost, warehousing cost, lead time and supply chain risk, among others — likely sum to a value beyond 20% of the unit price. Manufacturing in China is subsidized to an unseen extent.

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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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Norm Fasteners Celebrating 50 Years & Three Generations

Fastener News Desk

While multi-sourcing and intensifying cooperation with our suppliers and customers all over the world, we concentrated our focus on emergency response scenarios, business sustainability management, preparation of quality and performance improvement programs for suppliers, and increasing the level of automation based operations.

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

Mold Making Technology

” AM Trends Glynn Fletcher, president of EOS North America , a provider of laser powder bed fusion technology exhibiting in the Additive Manufacturing (AM) Sector, says that some AM processes are transitioning from lower volume, higher value production to more medium-volume, cost-effective and mainstream production applications. .

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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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Back In Action: An MCMT Special

Dinesh Mishra

HSTEC specializes in the development, manufacture, and repair of high-speed motor spindles and fixtures. The final core area of expertise in the CHIRON Group is in additive manufacturing products and solutions. Now with newer technologies, we see a good opportunity, demand, and growth for additive manufacturing.