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Tag Archives: manufacturing
Paint additive shortage from Japanese supplier impacts car colors
A Wall Street Journal article (March 26, 2011) describes a shortage of an additive, Xirallic, made of coated glass flakes, and by a Merck plant in Japan. This additive is shipped to paint makers in Germany and then to car … Continue reading
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Tagged Consumers, Cost, Global, manufacturing, Suppliers, Sustainable
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Auto Supply Chain Parts Shortages and OEM Impacts
A Wall Street Journal article (March 22, 2011) describes parts shortages across the auto supply chain for chips, sensors, forged parts etc. In some cases, past auto demand order drops have resulted in supplier capacity being diverted (for chips) from … Continue reading
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Tagged Cost, Demand Surge, manufacturing, Suppliers, Supply Chain
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Japan Tsunami and Supply Chain Resilience
A New York Times article (March 19, 2011) descibes management of the global supply chain impact of the Japanese tsunami and earthquake and likens it to triage in a hospital. Apple is quoted as having buffer inventory to compensate for … Continue reading
Japanese Tsunami and Supply Chain Disruptions
A New York Times article (March 17, 2011) describes the Japanese earthquake and tsunami and its consequent impact on electricity supply, ports, manufacturing plants and the global supply chain. It describes Texas Instruments as claiming that one of its Japanese … Continue reading
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Tagged Capacity, Cost, Demand Surge, Global, Growth, manufacturing, Suppliers, Survival, Sustainable
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New Rare earth supply chain
An article in the International Herald Tribune (March 8, 2011) describes a new rare earth supply chain. The ore is mined in Australia and concentrated (2/3 of the dirt removed) before it is put in sealed bags inside steel containers … Continue reading
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Tagged Cost, manufacturing, Outsourcing, Rare Earths, Suppliers, Supply Chain
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Eliminating the ban on Mexican trucks crossing the US border
A Wall Street Journal article (March 4, 2011) describes the announcement of the end of the 20 year ban on Mexican truckers driving across the US border (the ban was a violation of the Nafta agreement). That ban has resulted … Continue reading
Why is the iPad the cheapest of the comparable tablets ?
A Wall Street Journal article (March 2, 2011) reports on a note by an analyst, Toni Sacconaghi, at Bernstein Research, on why the Apple iPad is the cheapest of the tablet products offered. The article claims reasons for this cost … Continue reading
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Tagged Capacity, Cost, Efficiency, manufacturing, Supply Chain
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Targeted Emissions cuts before general carbon focused cuts
The Economist (February 17,2011) suggests that piecemeal focused emissions reductions of specific gases may generate fast results while building a more general consensus. For example,the article cites HFC-134a as a gas 1,000 times more warming than carbon dioxide. Similarly, carbon … Continue reading
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Emissions Rules Relaxation and Industry Impact
A New York Times article (February 23, 2011) describes the current EPA emissions rules – rolling back requirements for industrial boilers, incinerators etc. The impact is to permit many plants, municipalities, universities etc to reduce their costs of compliance – … Continue reading
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Tagged Capacity, Cost, Global, manufacturing, Supply Chain, Sustainable, Trends
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Sick workers at Apple’s supplier and OEM’s responsibility
A New York Times article (February 23, 2011) describes worker complaints at an Apple supplier, Wintek, and their plant in China that uses the n-hexane agent to cleaning glass panels for the Apple iPhone. The cleaning agent was used for … Continue reading
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Global Supply Chain Musings 