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Manufacturing In the Middle: Growth, Opportunity and New Challenges

Cisco Smart Manufacturing

Supply chain relationships. Some of the challenges that have arisen out of increased completion include more pressure on supply chains, customer consolidation and the potential impacts of tariffs on pricing. New materials/composites. Advanced process control. Changing product/service mix.

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Copper Alloys Find an Ideal Niche in Metal AM

Fabricating & Metal Work

As a result, there was more variability in those powders than other more mature ones like Inconel.” As AM systems continued to evolve their processes and controls, the materials industry began working to better-standardize powder manufacture and sourcing.

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MoldMaking Technology's Most-Viewed Content 2022: Products

Mold Making Technology

Mold in a Day Technology Slashes Tool Production, Eliminates Supply Chain Headache. Next Chapter Manufacturing highlights its transformative “ Mold in a Day ” (MIAD) technology to accelerate the injection molding process, meeting the challenge of supply chain disruptions. Photo Credit: Edro Engineering.