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Siemens Announces new Strategic Collaboration with Xerox® Elem™ Additive Solutions

Fabricating & Metal Work

Siemens has announced a new collaboration effort with Xerox Elem Additive Solutions, aimed at strengthening the metal additive manufacturing (AM) capabilities of both businesses. The CATCH facility focuses on the industrialization of additive manufacturing, working with machine builders, material suppliers and end-customers.

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Australian manufacturers drive economic growth by making complex things the world needs

AU Manufacturing

SA) – Recycling: Sovereign manufacturing of plastic-free wipes for medical, industrial, and personal use. The project removes reliance on international supply chains, while substantially decreasing CO2 emissions and waste from the importation of plastic-based wipes. Vypex (VIC) – Food and Beverage: Advanced 5.1-based

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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. Peter Zelinski writes about manufacturing technology and how it is changing.

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

21st Century Tech

David’s topic today addresses the challenge that COVID-19 has created on global supply chains and how companies are mitigating and adapting to a new reality. My wife and I recently had our own supply chain experience. But when we ordered a sofa trundle bed we ran up against a supply chain bottleneck.

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Why is Digital Transformation in Manufacturing Necessary for Future Growth?

Factory Worx

Manufacturers can use digital technologies to improve operational efficiencies and optimise many business areas, such as product development and supply chain management. Digitisation boosts productivity instantly, allowing projects to proceed more quickly and manufacturers to meet more aggressive deadlines.

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Norm Fasteners Celebrating 50 Years & Three Generations

Fastener News Desk

FND: With Norm Fasteners 15 logistics and sales centers located in 9 countries, how did this infrastructure help your clients keep production lines up and running during supply chain constraints during the pandemic? Our priorities lie in emphasizing excellence in sales, marketing, warehousing, and logistics processes.

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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.