Fabricating & Metal Work

APRIL 22, 2025

Fabricators relying heavily on external vendors often face quality issues, bottlenecks and unpredictable costs. Eliminating outsourcing reduces vendor markups and lead times, both of which affect the bottom line, and minimizes any shipping delays. One of the most effective ways to achieve this is through vertical integration.

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Mold Making Technology

APRIL 18, 2023

These evolutions help to meet critical moldmaking demands, such as higher precision, shorter lead times, reduced costs and greater repeatability. Automation Operations Manager Todd Doerfert says that graphite machining can be a shopfloor bottleneck, particularly with simultaneous complicated projects.

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CMTC Manufacturing Tech

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Without modern, efficient infrastructure, the benefits of reshoring could be lost to bottlenecks and inefficiencies. Companies need to build relationships with multiple suppliers to mitigate risks and avoid bottlenecks. Strengthening Supplier Networks A flexible supplier network is critical to the success of reshoring.

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CMTC Manufacturing Tech

MARCH 20, 2024

Production Scheduling Create a detailed production schedule that considers lead times as well as labor and equipment resources. Reduced costs: Production planning can help companies eliminate bottlenecks, minimize waste, maximize its resource utilization, and operate much more cost-effectively.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Recent changes to the supply chain emerged shortly after the global pandemic was announced, particularly during COVID-19 lockdowns, due to abrupt shifts in demand that created bottlenecks at ports worldwide. This reflects temporary trade restrictions, reduced transport options, and increased port loading and unloading times.

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Mold Making Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

MSI Mold Builders identified a bottleneck at the very start of its manufacturing process where it squared mold blocks and drilled and tapped eye-bolt holes to rapidly and safely move large blocks around the floor. Conservatively, that Unisig saves us six to 10 hours of setup time in the first step of our operation.”

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CMTC Manufacturing Tech

MARCH 6, 2024

As you write down the steps of your manufacturing process, make sure to take note of dependencies and pinpoint any bottlenecks. Supplier Management Cultivating strong relationships with suppliers can help you sustain a responsive and cost-effective supply chain to ensure the timely and efficient supply of goods and services.

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Mold Making Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

A desktop Swiss lathe can eliminate this bottleneck by producing these components with precision, reducing both lead times and labor costs. These components are crucial for fine-tuning part ejection and improving overall mold quality, yet they often require tedious manual machining.

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Modern Machine Shop

JUNE 11, 2023

Much like how bear-resistant canisters are refined for better quality if they don’t pass certification testing, the machining processes and data tracking for these parts have been refined by Above All to remove production bottlenecks and reduce scrap rates.

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Mold Making Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Justin founded J Squared Design Services to help companies fight engineering bottlenecks with high-quality engineering solutions that exceed expectations. Justin is the owner and president of mold design and engineering firm J Squared Design Services LLC based in Arkansas City, Kansas.

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ATS

MARCH 8, 2024

This might include adjusting shift patterns, installing new machinery, speeding up bottleneck machinery or other actions. The machine with the lowest capacity is the bottleneck. Once the bottleneck is identified and its productive capacity quantified, management can make decisions around how best to allocate manufacturing resources.

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Mold Making Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2023

The results: The impact and benefits achieved by implementing the solution, including quantifiable metrics like cost savings, reduced lead times, improved quality, etc. A solution: The technology, process, or strategy implemented to address the problem.

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AU Manufacturing

JUNE 14, 2023

Fine-tuning manufacturing operations First and foremost, data discovery allows manufacturers to identify areas where they can achieve operational efficiencies, such as identifying production bottlenecks. They can determine the optimal product inventory levels by analysing customer demand, production capacity and supply chain lead times.

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Mold Making Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

When you schedule and deliver on time, you can correctly estimate lead times, identify production bottlenecks, know the status of all jobs, know your true capacity for machines, work centers and personnel and see how inserting a job into the schedule will affect other jobs, all in real time.

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Fastener News Desk

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

This has taken the form of long lead times, as well as stalling of production when parts needed for manufacturing fail. Efficiency is critical for businesses to remain competitive, so these bottlenecks can be extremely damaging. The nature of AM can shorten lead times, too.

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Mold Making Technology

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Consequently, programming a CNC machine — a common bottleneck — is reduced by up to 80%, according to side-by-side trials conducted with CAM Assist and senior CAM programmers According to CloudNC, that gain enables manufacturers using CAM Assist to raise productivity and shorten lead times.

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AU Manufacturing

MAY 12, 2023

Operational data at your fingertips In a white paper, Grabowski highlighted one of the biggest advantages of ERP scheduling— tracking jobs in real-time. With access to this data, manufacturers would be able to detect bottlenecks while jobs are in progress and ensure that they get completed on time.

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i4.0 today

JUNE 1, 2023

The new NX502 CPU and NX-EIP201 EtherNet/IP units utilize OMRON’s unique advanced information processing, communications technologies, and large-capacity memory to achieve real-time analysis and process modularization *1. Communication performance limitations are a bottleneck to stable manufacturing quality.

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Automation Mag

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Justin Brown, president at Unirope, said, “At a minimum, we have cut lead times in half, and in the best case we have seen a 400 percent improvement. Remember, unemployment is at an all-time low, so we have to optimize our workforce. We are moving towards modernizing the traditional rigging shop model.

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Additive Manufacturing

JANUARY 19, 2023

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.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

DECEMBER 10, 2024

As a result, the amount of time it takes to program a CNC machine to make a component – a bottleneck in many factories is greatly reduced, compared to the previous manual programming process, as is the time spent to estimate how much a new component will cost to program.

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Canadian Manufacturing

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Justin Brown, president at Unirope, said: “At a minimum we have cut lead times in half, and in the best case we have seen a 400% improvement. Remember, unemployment is at an all-time low, so we have to optimize our workforce. We are moving towards modernizing the traditional rigging shop model.

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Additive Manufacturing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

As we attend IMTS 2022, we are very proud, that our new QLS 820 is printing at speeds of up to 8 litters per hour, at packing density of up to 20%, delivering orders of magnitude productivity gains without the typical costs and lead-times associated with tooled plastics.”.

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Mold Making Technology

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Digitalization is another area of interest, with folks exploring digital twins, simulation software and digital workflows to tighten up processes and reduce lead time. In terms of tackling bottlenecks, with shops exploring everything from cobots to quick setup solutions. Automation also continues to get a lot of buzz.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

AUGUST 10, 2022

Rapid part changes, raw material bottlenecks and labor shortages continue to drive demand for multisensor inspection with the option to automate. With lead times for new and leased equipment continuing to grow, AIMS’ proactive business model supports job shops and manufacturers on another front. “We

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Additive Manufacturing

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The DoD has high interest to make more 3D printed parts, primarily due to the supply chain issues that have become a major bottleneck,” Bredael said. This reduces inventory challenges, eliminates long-lead times, and increases overall resiliency. This enables them to print spares on-demand instead of relying on the OEM.”

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Nexus Integra

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Real-time data. Real-time data removes bottlenecks from all business processes. Waste and costs can be greatly reduced, and lead times will decrease due to total process control. Descriptive, prescriptive and predictive analytics can help analyze customer behavior, estimate demands and prevent potential failures.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

APRIL 22, 2024

Demand Forecasting AI helps optimize production schedules, reduce lead times, and avoid stockouts by predicting product demand based on historical data, market trends, and customer behavior. AI-powered ERP helps control supply chain management by predicting supplier lead times, identifying bottlenecks, and optimizing logistics routes.

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Mold Making Technology

MARCH 19, 2023

Custom Etch always strives to be the best in the industry regarding quality, lead time and cost. Get to Know Wisconsin Engraving Visit Booth 1324 , a place where mold builders and their customers can come to help alleviate their bottlenecks.

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Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

APRIL 12, 2023

The sourcing of key raw materials by Contract Development & Manufacturing Organizations CDMOs was severely impacted and continues as a significant bottleneck post-COVID. Managing optimal inventory levels remains vital as CDMOs work on multiple projects simultaneously.

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Control Engineering

JULY 14, 2023

With factories closed, lead times and backlogs quickly grew. Even global companies with factories and customers around the world were affected, like many other organizations, with long delays on delivery times, which were unheard of pre-2020. With reduced availability, prices of raw materials and vital components rose sharply.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

APRIL 19, 2023

Another bottleneck was the rush on computer components. Trilogy Machinery was quoted up to 12 months lead time on servo motors, drivers and computer components. “We “So, the containers were fewer and further apart — it was hard to find a shipping container to fill up.”

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Fabricating & Metal Work

MARCH 16, 2023

The production process kept running into bottlenecks because the motors kept stalling while drilling at 1,000 rpms. Priefert Manufacturing installed a new production line to drill 1,200+ 1.00” diameter holes/hour through 16-to-22-gauge steels. Coolube® advanced metalworking lubricants.

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CMTC Manufacturing Tech

JUNE 6, 2025

This blog will cover practical strategies manufacturers can use to reduce lead time, eliminate waste, and contribute to overall operational improvements. How Lead Time Drives Up Costs In manufacturing, lead time is a cost multiplier. For Part 3, we’re getting into the tactical side of continuous improvement.

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ATS

MAY 1, 2025

Consider KPIs such as lead time, machine uptime rate, and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). Lead times for flow shops are generally shorter due to their consistent production paths leading to uniform results. This single second can cause upstream bottlenecks that worsen over time.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JANUARY 15, 2025

KUKA.Sim checks reachability and detects collisions in the virtual space to ensure foolproof implementation of programs and cells, minimizing the time and costs of planning tasks as well as actual production downtime.

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Mold Making Technology

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, purchasing our five-axis machine eliminated the bottlenecks we had from outsourcing our mold base work. Purchasing a large surface grinder solved another bottleneck area, as it allowed us to do grinding ourselves and shortened lead times. 2) Custom molding.

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