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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.
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.
Washing-Machine Tariffs Come Out Clean, Sparkling for US …
Jan 16, 2024 · OPINION. In January 2018, the Trump administration imposed tariffs of 20% to 50% on large residential washing machines. The tariffs expired in February 2023. Six years after these tariffs were imposed, the U.S. now has a larger, more successful, and more competitive domestic washing machine industry.
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.
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.
Boeing Strike Ends with Workers Accepting Significant Pay Raises
Nov 4, 2024 · Boeing President and CEO Kelly Ortberg thanked workers for accepting the contract. Ortberg had barely been at Boeing for a month when machinists went on strike, and he’d made getting a new contract and getting employees back to work major planks of his turnaround plan. “While the past few months have been difficult for all of us, we are all part of the same team,” Ortberg said.
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 ...
EV Battery Maker Northvolt Seeks Bankruptcy Protection in US
Nov 22, 2024 · Sweden's beleaguered electric car battery maker Northvolt on Thursday said it had applied for bankruptcy protection in the United States to enable it to restructure its debt and reorganize its business.