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AUSTIN ALLRED'S FAMILY has been farming the Royal Slope region of Washington state between Seattle and Spokane for three generations. He and his two brothers, Derek and Tyson, farm a [...]

Byline: Emilie Delaye and Sheng Lu With consumers' growing interest in fashion sustainability, fashion companies are eager to offer more 'sustainable' apparel products, such as those using preferred fibres. Using [...]

Byline: Robert Antoshak The traditional model of global sourcing is predicated on low input costs. Indeed, to obtain the lowest possible production costs, sourcing companies have used their commercial muscle [...]

Label converters have worked tirelessly to optimize their press runs. And when quality issues arise, static electricity can often be identified as the culprit. Contamination of the web often leads [...]

San Juan Basin Royalty Trust will not declare a monthly cash distribution to the holders of its Units of beneficial interest due to excess production costs for the Trust's subject [...]

Byline: Akanksha Gaur By integrating cutting-edge hardware and software, it offers a comprehensive solution for efficient power and energy control, facilitating the automotive industry's shift towards a fully electric, software-defined [...]

Silicon Mobility, an Intel Company, has launched the OLEA U310 system-on-chip (SoC). The company claims it is the first solution combining hardware and software to meet the powertrain domain control [...]

San Juan Basin Royalty Trust's trustee Argent Trust reported that San Juan Basin will not declare a monthly cash distribution to the holders of its units of beneficial interest due [...]

Tony Vinciquerra, Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO, said he likes artificial intelligence's ability to lower the expense of production for both films for theaters and television, wrote Tony Maglio for IndieWire. [...]

By integrating additive manufacturing into the sand casting process, foundries and pattern shops are becoming more agile and competitive, bringing high-quality castings to market faster and at a lower price [...]

Warner Bros. Discovery CFO Gunnar Widenfels said that the entertainment industry has to resolve ongoing writer and actor strikes and 'get back to work,' Deadline's Dade Hayes reports. Speaking at [...]

Byline: Jason Thomas POCATELLO Last year, many farmers and ranchers received record or near-record prices for the agricultural commodities they produced. This year is shaping up to be a different [...]

In the late '90s and early 21st century India, many apparel manufacturing companies collapsed due to no information on the actual cost incurred during the manufacturing of certain products. At [...]

Cornwall-based supplier Trewithen Dairy increased sales by 18% last year, but slid into the red in the face of a 'difficult trading environment'. The supplier enjoyed a PS10m increase in [...]

Caterpillar CFO Andrew Bonfield said on the company's Q1 call: 'We expect price to continue to be favorable, although the absolute dollar value of the year-over-year price increases will moderate [...]

3D printing has made great strides in both technological advancements and manufacturing production implementation. One proven application that many companies have implemented is using 3D printing to build cooling channels [...]

Got challenges? Good network design and technology can solve them. Here's how. As the profile of supply chain continues to elevate in organizations and corporate boardrooms, the challenges associated with [...]

Byline: Kevin White E nlisting sta to guard meat products sounds extreme. But amid a spiralling cost of living crisis, that's exactly what some supermarkets have been forced to do. [...]

Byline: Eric Meyer Florida is bracing for hurricane Ian. While we don't see hurricanes in the Midwest, there are other types of storms that can threaten our livelihood. We see [...]

Byline: Eric Meyer Florida is bracing for hurricane Ian. While we don't see hurricanes in the Midwest, there are other types of storms that can threaten our livelihood. We see [...]

Byline: Eric Meyer Florida is bracing for hurricane Ian. While we don't see hurricanes in the Midwest, there are other types of storms that can threaten our livelihood. We see [...]

Byline: Eric Meyer Florida is bracing for hurricane Ian. While we don't see hurricanes in the Midwest, there are other types of storms that can threaten our livelihood. We see [...]

Byline: Eric Meyer Florida is bracing for hurricane Ian. While we don't see hurricanes in the Midwest, there are other types of storms that can threaten our livelihood. We see [...]

Byline: Ed Usset In my last blog post, we met grain marketer Aunt Tilly. While her timed approach to pre-harvest pricing paid off, I struggled with her willingness to price [...]

Byline: Ed Usset In my last blog post, we met grain marketer Aunt Tilly. While her timed approach to pre-harvest pricing paid off, I struggled with her willingness to price [...]

Byline: Ed Usset In my last blog post, we met grain marketer Aunt Tilly. While her timed approach to pre-harvest pricing paid off, I struggled with her willingness to price [...]

Byline: Ed Usset In my last blog post, we met grain marketer Aunt Tilly. While her timed approach to pre-harvest pricing paid off, I struggled with her willingness to price [...]

Byline: Ed Usset In my last blog post, we met grain marketer Aunt Tilly. While her timed approach to pre-harvest pricing paid off, I struggled with her willingness to price [...]

The ever increasing pressure on injection molded parts suppliers to increase productivity and lower manufacturing cost has led to great interest in improving process safety and part quality. Monitoring the [...]

COMPANY Toolcraft Inc. PROBLEM A large order necessitated adding a third shift, but the shop was having trouble hiring anyone to cover it SOLUTION UR5e collaborative robot from Universal Robots [...]

It is a cold hard fact that steel production in Europe can hardly be made economically viable unless manufacturing facilities use the very latest equipment and technology. And there is [...]

It's on. It's off. Back to the dtawing boatd. Renegotiate. Pause, Now it's on again. Sound familiar? The whole U.S.-China trade debacle and ensuing tariff threats (and reversals) is not [...]

Since the 1960s, the North Sea has remained a highly sought-after region for oil and gas E&P. Nevertheless, the aging North Sea basin is seeing a steady decline in output, [...]

A nurse who was employed at two different medical facilities placed a yellow wristband on a patient's arm to identify the arm as a restricted extremity, a necessary designation for [...], Nurses should protect the affected extremities of patients who have a permanent arteriovenous access for hemodialysis by avoiding blood pressure measurements and venipuncture on access extremities. National recommendations include labeling the affected extremity with an alert mechanism, such as a wristband, to notify patients and staff of arteriovenous access. A policy change was enacted at an academic medical center in the Southeast to identify restricted extremities with a pink "limb alert" wristband after review of national recommendations on hemodialysis access preservation, individual facility procedures, product cost-benefit analysis, and unit and system educational methods. Keeping simplicity, nursing workload, and flexibility at the forefront of implementation, evaluation, and process revision, an overall adherence rate of 84.2% was achieved three months after implementation of the policy. Key Words: Patient alert wristbands, restricted extremity, color-coded wristbands, quality improvement.

Plate-and-frame (P&F) heat exchangers were first manufactured 100 yr ago for use in the dairy industry. They have since been used in the process industries, as they offer considerable advantages [...]

Purpose: The prime objective of the current study is to investigate the relationship between Preventive Maintenance (PM) and production performance. The study has proposed a framework which argues that preventive maintenance practices improve production performance by lowering production cost and improving the product quality Design/methodology/approach: The methodology involves transforming the Malaysian manufacturing Sector trough preventive maintenance that can reduce manufacturing cost and increase product quality. The empirical data were collected from 155 Malaysian manufacturing companies through a survey. Findings: The paper finds that Preventive Maintenance practices successfully reduce the manufacturing cost and at the same time increase the quality of the product trough practicing Time--based maintenance (TBM); Condition-based maintenance (CBM) and Predictive maintenance (PdM). All Malaysian manufacturing sectors comprehend that the Preventive Maintenance practices namely; Time -based maintenance (TBM); Condition-based maintenance (CBM) and Predictive maintenance (PdM) are very important that deliver value in use. Research limitations/implications: The limitations are the study focuses only on manufacturing based company and no service based companies were involved in this study and this study only prioritizing Preventive Maintenance practices as in-depth in nature, and the brief reporting can only cover the tip of the iceberg. Practical implications: The Preventive maintenance has significant potential value in providing routes for companies to move up their value by exploiting higher value business activities. Originality/value: The paper can be useful for Malaysian manufacturing and service industries which are in the starting phase of PM implementation. Keywords: Preventive Maintenance, Malaysian Manufacturing Sector, Manufacturing Performance, Time--Based Maintenance, Condition-Based Maintenance, Predictive Maintenance, 1. Introduction The manufacturing sector is one of the key drivers that extensively contribute to the growth of the Malaysian economy. The manufacturing sector has become the driving force for [...]

Un the developed economies that emerged after World War II, business was centered on the mass production of low-cost, standardized goods to meet burgeoning consumer demand. Efficiency and scale ruled [...]

John Browning's second great pistol, the Hi Power (second to the 1911, of course) was recently discontinued by Fabrique Nationale in Belgium. Tooling and machinery were wearing out, production costs [...]

The Company expects to reduce manufacturing and production costs by leveraging existing capabilities across facilities. The Company is actively applying best practices and learnings from its highest-margin categories and top [...]

The aerospace MRO market is dominated by casting suppliers, but the supply chain is at risk--an expert explains--apparently ready for a 'step-change improvement' in manufacturing technology. Replacing aircraft and aerospace [...]

In packaging plants across the world, compressed air systems create significant energy waste. Pinhole leaks in air lines, sticky valves and other inefficiencies cost huge consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufactures [...]

Byline: Craig Hoyle Northrop Grumman incurred charges totalling $93 million against the Lockheed Martin F-35 programme last year, due to reduced sales and pandemic-related business effects. Northrop Grumman incurred charges [...]

In a year when fertilizer prices are at unprecedented highs and availability is questionable, it is important to plan ahead. Spend some time assessing your cost of production. Consider your [...]

In a year when fertilizer prices are at unprecedented highs and availability is questionable, it is important to plan ahead. Spend some time assessing your cost of production. Consider your [...]

In a year when fertilizer prices are at unprecedented highs and availability is questionable, it is important to plan ahead. Spend some time assessing your cost of production. Consider your [...]

In a year when fertilizer prices are at unprecedented highs and availability is questionable, it is important to plan ahead. Spend some time assessing your cost of production. Consider your [...]

In a year when fertilizer prices are at unprecedented highs and availability is questionable, it is important to plan ahead. Spend some time assessing your cost of production. Consider your [...]

In Apparel's 2nd annual Technology Outlook, reducing product costs stands out as the key business initiative For the second year in a row, with improving the e-commerce experience the top [...]

Amazon.com has a valuable lesson for today's E&P operators, who are seeking to address core challenges with various technology solutions. It involves the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to enable [...]