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Reshaping Global Supply Chains: Impacts of Tariff Hikes and …
Nov 21, 2024 · As global supply chains continue to face challenges in 2024, a potential paradigm shift in U.S. trade policy looms on the horizon. The prospect of dramatically increased tariffs—up to 60% on Chinese imports and 10%-to-20% across all other trading partners, including Mexico—threatens to fundamentally reshape global supply chain landscape.
The State of Industrial Maintenance 2024 | IndustryWeek
Oct 20, 2024 · Maintenance is evolving rapidly. Our 2024 report, based on insights from 1,200 professionals, reveals critical trends shaping the industry. From rising downtime costs to innovative strategies, discover how top facilities are adapting.
AI and ERP: Smarter Manufacturing in 2024 - IndustryWeek
Jan 12, 2024 · The Path Towards Responsible AI Adoption . With great power comes great responsibility. As manufacturers race to embrace transformative technologies and ERP systems evolve with AI, ethical considerations around data transparency, algorithmic bias, privacy protection, and labor impacts demand attention to ensure healthy AI adoption.
How 3D Printing Fits into Manufacturing, For Real | IndustryWeek
Oct 9, 2024 · “We don’t have the manpower, the engineering capacity, to go through the legacy portfolio to explore opportunities. For, let’s say, 5,000 components or products that we have to screen, I’ll need 300 years of engineering for one person to dedicate for that portfolio.
Trade Policy Winners and Losers: When Will Steel ... - IndustryWeek
Aug 5, 2024 · Steel articles or products from Mexico which were “melted and poured” outside of North America will incur a 25% duty rate. Aluminum articles or products from Mexico with a primary or secondary “country of smelt” or “country of most recent cast” of China, Belarus or Iran will incur a 10% duty rate.
What Is Plant Commissioning, Exactly? | IndustryWeek
Mar 2, 2020 · Planning begins with a solid schedule and process systemization. For instance, in a chemical plant, process systemization involves a commissioning process engineer taking the project’s piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs) and identifing sub-systems that can be broken out and prioritized based on a logical sequence of events to start up the facility.
Driving Profitability for Manufacturers: Automating Supply Chain ...
This webinar was originally broadcast on November 6, 2024. Now Available On Demand! Sponsor: ServiceNow Already registered? Click here to log in. . Summary. In today’s economy, manufacturers must find ways to boost profitability without sacrificing product quality.
2021 IW 50 Best US Manufacturers - IndustryWeek
Jul 29, 2021 · The annual IW 50 Best U.S. Manufacturers ranks the top-performing manufacturing companies in the United States, and is drawn from the IndustryWeek U.S. 500 our annual listing of the top 500 publicly held U.S. manufacturing companies, based on revenue. From there, we examine six additional measures over a three-year time frame. Those measures are inventory turns, profit margin, asset turnover ...
Lithium Batteries' Dirty Secret: Manufacturing Them Leaves …
Oct 16, 2018 · See also: Rio to Produce Lithium in California, Joining Electric Car Battery Race "We're facing a bow wave of additional CO2 emissions," said Andreas Radics, a managing partner at Munich-based automotive consultancy Berylls Strategy Advisors, which argues that for now, drivers in Germany or Poland may still be better off with an efficient diesel engine.