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Resolving fluidity challenges in today’s bottlenecked supply chain environment with technology

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

In today’s demanding supply chain environment, SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) are facing unprecedented supply chain challenges much like larger companies and, as a result, have been investing in their own fleets due to the lack of equipment available in the marketplace

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How to Eliminate Bottlenecks in Manufacturing?

MRPEasy

Manufacturing bottlenecks are points in the production process that are constrained by inefficiency. What is a bottleneck in manufacturing? A manufacturing bottleneck is a point […] The post How to Eliminate Bottlenecks in Manufacturing?

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How to Remove Measurement Bottlenecks

MEM

While bottlenecks outside of the facility are difficult to control, manufacturers can take measurement to prevent bottlenecks on the assembly line. While it is a common bottleneck, manufacturers cannot simply stop measuring their parts. Removing the bottleneck.

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Advanced CMM Laser Scanning of Complex Aerostructures Removes Inspection Bottlenecks

Metrology

The post Advanced CMM Laser Scanning of Complex Aerostructures Removes Inspection Bottlenecks appeared first on Metrology and Quality News - Online Magazine.

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Rapid Manufacturing of Polyurethane Parts Sidesteps Supply Chain Bottlenecks, Reduces Waste

Plastics Today

Chromatics’ 3D-printing technology fabricates parts reportedly as durable as injection molded components in a fraction of the time and at a more competitive cost

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Removing Production Bottlenecks through Automation

Universal Robots

In the search for a way to efficiently drill holes through the pieces of foam used for the upholstery to create the tufted look, Fibreline determined automation was the key to achieving their production goals.

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Digital Health Company Epicore Biosystems Won’t Sweat Supply-Chain Bottlenecks

Plastics Today

The maker of sweat-sensing wearables partners with 3M and Innovize to ensure uninterrupted materials supply and production

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Toray Develops High-Speed Thermal Welding for Carbon-Fiber Composites

Plastics Today

Technology addresses assembly bottlenecks caused by complicated adhesive bonding and bolt fastening processes

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Visibility & Resiliency: Letting Your Factory Work For You

Cisco Industrial Automation

Industry research shows that by 2023, 30% of manufacturers will enhance their shop floor digital twin with real-time signal transponder data, leading to an 80% reduction in logistic bottlenecks in shop floor and storage areas – Source: IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Manufacturing 2021.

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Smart mounting software helps techs assemble control cabinets

Design World

Control cabinet and switchgear manufacturing is under increasing time pressures and the lack of skilled employees may also be causing bottlenecks in many cases.

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AMBA’s Online Tool Lets Mold Makers Share Surplus or Deficit Capacity

Plastics Today

Mold makers with open capacity can easily connect with peers experiencing production bottlenecks

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Recession or not, slower growth in spending is inevitable

Plastics News

While there may still be many plastics processors that continue to experience bottlenecks in the supply chain, a growing number of manufacturers now find themselves struggling with just the opposite problem — oversupply and lagging demand

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Automation specialist B&R looking for hundreds of new employees as it significantly expands production

Robotics Automation News

Now that the global supply chain bottlenecks have eased recently, B&R wants to meet the high customer demand for automation solutions as quickly as possible. The ABB Group is expanding production at B&R, its global center for machine and factory automation based in Eggelsberg, Austria.

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Digital Reality Platform Enables Product Lifecycle Collaboration

Metrology

The new platform applies the latest cloud technologies to unblock innovation bottlenecks, enabling global teams to collaborate in real-time The post Digital Reality Platform Enables Product Lifecycle Collaboration appeared first on Metrology and Quality News - Online Magazine.

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UK factory growth slows to weakest in 18 months as business optimism falls

The Guardian Manufacturing

Supply bottlenecks, cost pressures and softer demand hit British industry Growth in UK factories’ order books and output has slowed to its weakest in 18 months as cost pressures, supply bottlenecks and softer demand hit British industry.

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Easily Automate Workflows in the Warehouse With the Combined Power of Ivanti Neurons for IIoT and Velocity for Business Process Automation

Manufacturing Tomorrow

The Combination of Ivanti Neurons for IIoT and Velocity Enables Supply Chain Operators to Easily Automate and Solve Bottlenecks in Business Processes and Keep Warehouse Operations Moving Smoothly

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Factories bearing the brunt of UK economic slowdown

The Guardian Manufacturing

Higher costs, weaker demand and bottlenecks sink manufacturing output to lowest level since start of pandemic Britain’s factories are bearing the brunt of the slowdown in the economy as higher costs, weaker demand and supply bottlenecks combine to send output plunging.

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Manufacturing Smartly with Digital Assembly of Control Cabinets

Control.com

A shortage in skilled labor prompted EPLAN to create the new Eplan Smart Mounting software to alleviate manufacturing bottlenecks by efficiently mapping out control cabinets digitally before they are manufactured

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Production Multisensor CMM Inspection On The Production Floor

Metrology

Rapid part changes, raw material bottlenecks and labor shortages continue to drive demand for multisensor inspection machines with the option to automate.

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Streaming Video Analytics AI Assists Industrial Engineering

Gary Mintchell

You have been trying to point out bottlenecks to production on your machine. The video analytics point out the bottleneck. Video as a sensor has been a topic for several posts here at The Manufacturing Connection.

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Hexagon Unveils Nexus—a Digital Reality Platform

Gary Mintchell

The invitation to the launch event from Hexagon raised many questions. The most important—what the heck would they mean by “digital reality?” First principle—it’s not the idea, it’s the execution that is important. Remember that first principle.

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Identifying and Eliminating the 8 Forms of Waste in Manufacturing

CMTC Manufacturing Tech

Continuous improvement and customer-first approaches such as Lean methodology can offer a critical advantage to small and medium-sized manufacturers (SMMs) competing in the global market.

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Remote Machine Monitoring Connects the Shopfloor

Modern Machine Shop

FactoryWiz says its data collection system enables users to visualize real-time performance data, work with actionable information, identify shop floor production bottlenecks, track machine uptime anytime, anywhere and download/upload (DNC) part programs Photo Credit: FactoryWiz.

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Unified planning, reporting, and analysis for the manufacturing industry

Manufacturer's Monthly

This reduces the risk of bottlenecks or disruptions in supply chains, and improves flexibility in stock management, leading to better business performance overall.

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AM Forward for American Supply Chain Resiliency: Neal Orringer, President of ASTRO America

Additive Manufacturing

Topics Include: 2:00 – Addressing Supply Chain Bottlenecks. Available in your favorite app: On this episode the AM Voices podcast, Adam J.

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Why an MES software is the ideal Place to Start Your Industry 4.0 Journey

Factory Worx

Enhanced visibility MES software provides real-time visibility into all aspects of the production process, enabling manufacturers to identify bottlenecks and other inefficiencies in real-time and take corrective action. Read Our Blog.

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Havells’ partnership with Dassault Systèmes to Boost the Productivity and Operational Efficiency of Its Factories.

Dinesh Mishra

This empowers them with decision making, from shop floor to top floor, hence eliminating non-value added activities and process bottlenecks. India’s largest fast-moving electrical goods manufacturer is using Dassault Systèmes’ DELMIA applications for its Manufacturing Execution System (MES).

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Gold Coast business fills market gap with freeze drying venture

Manufacturer's Monthly

There’s a handful of people who specialise in freeze drying and a significant number of people wanting it done, so we’ve seen a bottleneck in this throughout South East Queensland.”

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The big picture: Trends in artificial intelligence for manufacturers

Automation Mag

AI can predict maintenance failures earlier and schedule a diagnostic or repair at a convenient, or non-bottleneck time. This bottleneck is prohibitive for many companies for a variety of reasons. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is touted as a panacea by many.

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EAC's IoT Platform Connects Shop Floor With Actionable Data

Modern Machine Shop

Teams can highlight problematic situations, identify trends and bottlenecks, as well as observe sequential events.

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Two Reasons to Form Additive Tooling Partnerships

Mold Making Technology

Solve bottlenecks in your moldmaking process. Building partnerships that involve experienced AM resources can also solve bottlenecks in your moldmaking process, such as waiting on steel, heat treatment, programming and complex geometry requiring significant EDM and electrodes. 3D printing mold inserts can produce 80-98% complete inserts, including heat treatment, requiring minimal to no finish machining. Photo Credit, all images: Next Chapter Manufacturing.

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MC Machinery to Showcase Newest Lasers, Press Brakes and More at FABTECH

Fabricating & Metal Work

The ASTES4 Skyway High Speed laser sorting system is a solution for fabricators facing worker shortages and bottlenecks resulting from the increased productivity of higher-volume fiber lasers.

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

21st Century Tech

But when we ordered a sofa trundle bed we ran up against a supply chain bottleneck. Recently, the CBS news program, 60 Minutes , ran a piece describing the very problem with global supply chain bottlenecks in the port of Los Angeles that likely had befouled our sofabed purchase.

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Systematiq explores AI potential for manufacturing

Manufacturer's Monthly

Operational diagnosis: AI can be used in inventory management to monitor production in real-time, enabling you to manage your supply chain and identify bottlenecks. It is undeniably clear that artificial intelligence is set to revolutionise the digital landscape.

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Mitsui Seiki USA Launches New Line of Jig Borers

Modern Machine Shop

For precision holemaking applications, XY interpolation enables the J12/J16 machines to carry out high-precision contouring by utilizing an end mill instead of a boring tool, eliminating the need to manually adjust a boring tool to accurately finish the hole diameter avoiding bottlenecks.

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KlearNow’s Rebranding to KlearNow.AI Reinforces Its Position as a Global Logistics Leader in A.I. and M.L. Innovation

i4.0 today

Combined with the speed and accuracy of its customs clearance and haulage process, which eliminates bottlenecks and costly delays, many organisations have already adopted its platform. KlearNow has announced a rebrand to KlearNow.AI

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Canada adopts joint statement on collaborating with other economies to mitigate broken supply chains

Canadian Manufacturing

and the United States intend to work together to create a crisis response to help alleviate transportation, logistics, supply chain disruptions, bottlenecks and long-term resilience challenges. OTTAWA — The U.S.

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Alta. predicts a $2.4B budget surplus due to oil

Canadian Manufacturing

Many major spending initiatives were revealed in recent weeks, including $158 million to recruit and retain health workers and $243 million over three years to augment primary care to reduce emergency room bottlenecks.

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Nexa3D Starts Shipping Its High-Throughput Laser Sintering Platform, the QLS 820

Additive Manufacturing

The QLS 820 features, exchangeable build station that operators can use for continuous production during the cooldown process, eliminating production bottlenecks and increasing throughput and overall asset utilization. VENTURA, Calif./January

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Editorial Advisory Board 2023-2026: Meet New Board Member Justin Jagels

Mold Making Technology

Justin founded J Squared Design Services to help companies fight engineering bottlenecks with high-quality engineering solutions that exceed expectations.

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Legal Implications of the ChatGPT Revolution in Manufacturing

Foley

The model can identify bottlenecks, predict production times, and suggest process improvements to increase throughput and reduce waste.

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Canada invests in Hamilton transload to relieve supply congestion

Canadian Manufacturing

It represents a long-term commitment to work with stakeholders on strategic infrastructure projects to address transportation bottlenecks, vulnerabilities, and congestion along Canada’s trade corridors. HAMILTON — Canada’s Transport Minister Omar Alghabra has announced funding of up to $5 million under the National Trade Corridors Fund for the Building Capacity in Canada’s Steel Supply Chain project.

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Middle East 2023 Top 5 Trends to Watch in GCC Economy

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

While war-induced shocks and cost pressures created supply chain bottlenecks, GCC economies reaped benefits from higher oil prices to earn windfall revenues. 2022 Round Up.