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Sources Sought: Direct Materiel Delivery Visibility for Improved Supply Chain Efficiency

NCMS

February 12, 2024 NCMS is assisting the Department of Defense in seeking industry partners who have the capability to provide the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) with a way to track (in near real-time) Customer Direct contracts, providing delivery of materiel from a supplier without passing through a government distribution point to evaluate required (..)

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Five lessons manufacturing operations can learn from enterprise IT teams

Cisco Industrial Automation

Digital manufacturing stresses factory networks in ways their designers never dreamed of. By some accounts, manufacturing was the most attacked industry in 2021. By some accounts, manufacturing was the most attacked industry in 2021. But unmanaged switches and isolated networks can’t meet the demands of smart manufacturing.

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How To: Define a Standard

Fastener News Desk

The word “standard” is commonly used in daily language, so much so that people do not always reflect on its definition. This definition specifies both a process – the consensus-building, deliberative approach followed by committees – and a document, an actual standard. Test Method “A definitive procedure that produces a test result.”

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Manufacturing PMI® at 49.2%; April 2024 Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®

Fastener News Desk

Chair of the Institute for Supply Management ® (ISM ® ) Manufacturing Business Survey Committee: “The Manufacturing PMI ® registered 49.2 Chair of the Institute for Supply Management ® (ISM ® ) Manufacturing Business Survey Committee: “The Manufacturing PMI ® registered 49.2 Fiore , CPSM, C.P.M.,

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The Sparkplug Specification Is Now an ISO/IEC Standard 

Gary Mintchell

Sparkplug has been developed as open source way for engineers to standardize their messages from IIoT devices to databases. The Eclipse Foundation , one of the world’s largest open source software foundations, in collaboration with the Eclipse Sparkplug Working Group, announced that the Sparkplug 3.0

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The Connectivity Revolution: How the Emergence of 5G Networks Are Reshaping Manufacturing

21st Century Tech

In his first contribution to the blog site, he writes about the change that 5G is bringing to manufacturing. For manufacturing this is not an incremental improvement over previous communication protocols. When it comes to manufacturing, 5G is making a noticeable difference. Dijam is the Co-founder and COO of GridRaster Inc. ,

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Intent to form the Open Metaverse Foundation

Gary Mintchell

The Linux Foundation has begun an effort to bring companies together to work on definitions and security issues. This provides a bit of definition as to their thinking of what constitutes a metaverse market. The post Intent to form the Open Metaverse Foundation appeared first on The Manufacturing Connection.

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