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Manufacturing PMI® at 48.4%; December 2022 Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®

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Average lead time remained 32 percent above previous trough for capital expenditures and 37 percent for purchased materials; both are too high. Electronic components still a major supply chain issue, particularly if the component you need is not the current hot technology.” ” [Computer & Electronic Products].

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Embrace Disruption: The Supply Chain

Fabricating & Metal Work

located in Buellton, manufactures products for the consumer electronic market, serving customers such as Intel, Agilent, IBM and Hewlett-Packard. Because freight costs and labor costs have increased at overseas locations, those locations are not as attractive as they once were. Excelta Corp.,

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Manufacturing PMI® at 52.8%; July 2022 Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®

Fastener News Desk

New Orders and Employment Contracting; Production and Backlogs Growing; Supplier Deliveries Slowing at a Slower Rate; Raw Materials Inventories Growing; Customers’ Inventories Too Low; Prices Increasing at a Slower Rate; Exports and Imports Growing; Record-Long Lead Times for Production Materials and MRO Supplies.

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What is supply chain?

Fastener News Desk

For instance, the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan shut down electronics factories, and 2017’s Hurricane Harvey disrupted US oil refineries and petrochemical plants, ultimately leading to shortages of some plastics and resins critical to different industries. Service levels are five to 20 percentage points higher.