Athletic Footwear Manufacturer New Balance to Invest in U.S. Factory of the Future
Athletic and leisure footwear manufacturer New Balance has advanced plans to build the company’s sixth footwear factory within the U.S. New England region.
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Category: Additive manufacturing
Paris Air Show Front and Center for the Aerospace Industry with Boeing Facing More Scrutiny and Brand Damage
With the Paris Air Show occurring this week, the commercial aerospace industry and its two dominants, Airbus and Boeing, the bi-annual event provides opportunity to tout the latest achievements in new aircraft and business services capabilities. Instead for Boeing, this will be an event where damage control remains prominent and where design and supply network challenges are becoming far too visible.
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New Developments Compound Supply and Demand Network Challenges for Tesla Motors
Over the last couple of weeks, there have been a number of additional developments related to electric automaker Tesla Motors. This Supply Chain Matters commentary provides our readers our added perspectives from a supply and demand network perspective.
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Today’s Tesla Motors Workforce Reduction Announcement- An Additional Painful Reality Check
At what can likely again be described as inevitable, Tesla Motors today announced a significant across the board workforce reduction, and the descriptor of challenges that remain will obviously require added operational leadership.
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Tesla Motors Production and Supply Chain Challenges Potentially Take a New Turn
The Supply Chain Matters blog updates readers on Tesla’s production and supply chain management ramp-up challenges, new tell-all reports and a report of a building criminal probe related to Model 3 product ramp-up statements that are casting a much more concentrated eye on the electric auto maker’s operations.
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Airbus and Boeing Report Q3-2018 Operational Performance- A Better Picture but Challenges Remain
Both Airbus and Boeing have reported on operational performance and exited the September 2018 quarter showing signs of supply chain recovery, but Airbus continues to deal with the most significant challenge.
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Tesla’s Q3-2018 Operational Performance Demonstrates Some Progress
While Tesla Motors achieved its third-quarter production milestones, overall operational and delivery challenges remain for the electric auto maker. The Supply Chain Matters blog question is whether new management can once and for all overcome such challenges.
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Increased Venture Capital Flowing into Logistics Focused Intelligent Robotics
The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights the hot area of venture capital investment in advanced robotics applied to logistics, warehousing, and material movement areas.
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Siemens Announces Intent to Acquire Low-Code Cloud Platform Provider mendix
After the announcement by General Electric indicating intent to auction-off portions of its GE Digital IoT business unit, rival Siemens has responded with an acquisition announcement of a Boston based start-up.
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Airbus and Boeing Financial Performances Reinforce that Supply Network Performance is Critical
Both Airbus and Boeing have each reported their first-half 2018 and Q2 financial performance numbers respectively. For both, meeting stated year-end commercial aircraft output goals requires overcoming existing supply network challenges in the coming weeks and months.
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Supply Chain Matters Highlights and Insights of PTC LiveWorx 2018 Customer Conference
Supply chain industry analyst Bob Ferrari shares observations and insights from product lifecycle and service management technology provider PTC’s LiveWorx 2018 customer conference held in late June.
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Availability of New White Paper on Edge Computing Architecture
Supply Chain Matters calls reader attention to an announcement by The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIOT) on availability of the new white paper, IIC Introduction to Edge Computing in IIOT with a purpose to provide practical guidance on edge computing, architectures and building blocks necessary for Industrial Internet technology implementations.
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