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Meaningful Manufacturing

Dinesh Mishra

High-innovation industries like aerospace, space, and electronics are using and integrating this technology into their manufacturing processes. Substituting FDM for traditional manufacturing processes substantially reduces lead times and costs. It also makes production a simple, unattended and virtually labor-free operation.

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What is supply chain?

Fastener News Desk

For instance, the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan shut down electronics factories, and 2017’s Hurricane Harvey disrupted US oil refineries and petrochemical plants, ultimately leading to shortages of some plastics and resins critical to different industries. How do great supply chain organizations work?

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Back In Action: An MCMT Special

Dinesh Mishra

India is among the world’s biggest metal-cutting machine tools markets, with sectors like automotive, general engineering, energy, and aerospace being the major demand drivers. Now with newer technologies, we see a good opportunity, demand, and growth for additive manufacturing. technologies.