Remove Assembly Line Remove Discrete manufacturing Remove Lead Time
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Five advances in motion control, communications, design to ease automation use

Control Engineering

Regarding supply chain, Festo’s reduction to eight CMMT part numbers strengthened the company’s ability to support servo drives customers – fewer parts to inventory and fewer drives to manufacture and support. Machine builders welcome this move as servo drives across the industry remain in short supply and have long lead times, Festo said.

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Mixed Mode Manufacturing

ATS

Mixed mode manufacturing refers to any production environment that uses more than one manufacturing mode and does so under the same roof or within the same system. For example, carrying out discrete manufacturing in one facility and process manufacturing in another is not mixed mode.