Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

APRIL 7, 2025

AI-driven forecasting is reducing inefficiencies, preventing stock shortages, and ensuring just-in-time deliveries. Businesses are leveraging real-time insights to make their logistics networks more agile, cost-effective, and resilient to disruptions. The industrial automation revolution isnt just unfoldingits accelerating.

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Fastener News Desk

MAY 11, 2023

A supply chain includes all the raw materials and parts that are made into a product and distributed up the chain for manufacture and sale. In contrast, a value chain encompasses all the individual steps that are taken to create a marketable product. What are some supply chain risks?

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Nexus Integra

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Waste and costs can be greatly reduced, and lead times will decrease due to total process control. As a whole, we can say that intelligent operations lead companies to have a clearer and more controlled view of the entire value chain, helping to make more confident decisions based on accurate data.

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Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

While there has been cConsiderable debate surrounds the terminology and differences among Smart Manufacturing, digital transformation, Industry 4.0, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), but in this case, I will consider the terms to be synonyms. This is easier said than done.

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i4.0 today

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Large demand volumes are required to offset the initial cost of designing and manufacturing PICs, and production lead times can take months. However, there are still significant challenges for the PIC market, such as material limitations, integration complexity, and cost management.

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i4.0 today

JANUARY 23, 2025

The shift to all-electric injection moulding machines and OPC-UA connectivity provides a prime opportunity for processors to review their vertical integration and optimise the entire value chain, reports Dave. Like many UK manufacturers, Nolato Jaycare needed greater production capacity faster than the typical industry lead time.

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