Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 29, 2022

This new partnership comes just months after Mattel sent two Barbie dolls into space as part of a collaboration with the International Space Station National Lab to encourage girls to consider aerospace, engineering and STEM careers. Financial terms of deal were not disclosed. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 12, 2024

In its reporting, the WSJ indicated that the investigation is occurring in tandem with the justice agency’s ongoing review of Boeing ‘s compliance with a previous settlement sparked by two fatal crashes involving separate 737 MAX aircraft in 2018 and 2019 that killed nearly 350 people.

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IQMS

JULY 16, 2019

The following is a correlation comparing the average machine rate per hour by average markup based on the 2019 survey of plastics manufacturers by the Manufacturer’s Association for Plastics Processors (MAPP). Those in the latter group can sell cleanroom services at a higher average machine rate per hour and a higher average markup.

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DynaSys

JANUARY 13, 2021

And, among numerous examples of competitive disruption, new product strategies, such as White Claw’s 2019 upswing impacting the beer industry , are similarly noteworthy examples of frequently observed disruptions limited to particular markets. However, overall supply (in 2019’s case overall beverage supply) usually accommodates demand.

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IQMS

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Bottom Line: The top 10 manufacturing trends reflect how manufacturers are planning to achieve their goals of revenue growth, operational improvements, digital transformation, and launching new products and services in 2019. A copy of the survey results are downloadable here (PDF, free, opt-in).

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IQMS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Also, machine learning is leading to more accurate measures of Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), a key metric many manufacturers and supply chain operations rely on. Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Supply Chain Quarterly, Machine learning: A new tool for better forecasting, Joseph Shamir, Q4, 2019.

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ThroughPut

OCTOBER 2, 2019

September 25th, 2019. Originally an aerospace engineer for 12 years, Eric learned how to impart structure around ideas that transform them into solutions. How do I start using my existing operations data metrics like cycle time, uptime to help create operational benefits for my teams? to measure and track my bottlenecks?

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