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Trends 2022: Manufacturing

Enterra Insights

The manufacturing sector covers such a broad spectrum of products and processes that any discussion about industry trends must take place at a very high level. One of the megatrends that has been driving manufacturing for over a decade is digitization. Manufacturing Trends. And the manufacturing sector overall looks strong.

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20 Years of Outsourcing Come Back to Haunt Boeing

Logistics Viewpoints

The outsourced R&D, in turn, supported outsourced manufacturing with over 50 key suppliers. Problems are likely to continue, Dr. Tang argues, because the current crisis is hardly unprecedented; it is based on the changes that Boeing made to its R&D and manufacturing processes during the development of the 787 Dreamliner.

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How Locally Grown Products are Disrupting F&B Manufacturing

QAD

There is a developing trend that has been gaining steam in recent years that has the potential to seriously impact and “disrupt” food and beverage manufacturing. Smaller manufacturers are popping up all over the United States, as well as in other countries, to process and produce locally grown food products. The Washington D.C.

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Exiger Brings Supply Chain Explorer to Snowflake’s Manufacturing Data Cloud

Exiger Perspectives

Exiger’s Supply Chain Explorer enables joint customers to rapidly identify risks within their direct and indirect ecosystems and supply chains NEW YORK, WASHINGTON D.C., Our continued partnership with Exiger is an example of the collaboration needed across the industry to continue to embrace the increasingly digital-industrial world.”

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The Future of the Trucking Industry: What it Means for Manufacturing

USC Consulting Group

In 2018, Wisconsin-based trucking company manager Boris Strbac told The Washington Post that “people don’t respect truck drivers. For starters, trucking is essentially the lifeblood of manufacturing logistics. How Trucking Impacts Food Manufacturing Supply Chains. Manufacturing Logistics, Supply, and Demand.

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Leadership in Volatile Times

Enterra Insights

He uses George Washington, who heroically carried out routine activities during the Revolutionary War very near where I live, as an example. A couple of years ago, Honoré told participants at a Manufacturing & Technology Show in Cleveland, “You think how hard we have it today. ” Suggestion 4. Be Decisive but not Cocky.

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Webinar Recap: The Case for a Pan-American Manufacturing Ecosystem

Resilinc

In the decades since, Linton and his teams at IBM, LG, Flex and other companies have driven billions in annual procurement to China and other Asian countries, helping to create the Asia-centric manufacturing supply chains of today. based manufacturers will still need a strong supply base from friendly countries.