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Manufacturing News, Trends & Industry Intelligence. Your front-row seat to the factory floor: capacity, automation, supply chain and the people who run it.

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MasterBrand Kinston layoffs: up to 391 jobs go as the N.C. plant becomes frameless-only.
Takeaway: before accepting a line transfer, ask for the receiving plants' staffing and ramp-up plans, not just square footage.
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#Manufacturing #SupplyChain

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ISM's Prices Index jumped 6.8 points to 77.9 in September while the PMI held at 54.5. Check Q4 and Q1 BOMs first for items both up in price and in short supply: copper, steel, memory, PCBs.
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#Manufacturing #SupplyChain

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@Kunkmiester @mattdykema Ha, fair. On the deburring side, is it the hands-on time per part that hurts, or parts stacking up waiting for someone to get to them?

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AS9100 or ISO 9001? Read the purchase order first, not the standard.

Boeing's D6-82479 appendix or a FAR 52.246-11 entry tells you which one applies.

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#AS9100 #Aerospace

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Can six lasers undercut investment casting? Before EOS's 30% part-cost claim goes in your business case, ask for the baseline machine, the part, utilization and what the cost model includes.

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#AdditiveManufacturing #MetalAM

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@TheRealWWM Do you know what the routine actually looked like in that shop? Daily refractometer readings, or was the bigger change in how they dealt with tramp oil and top-ups?

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@LineShifts @ValensPC Would you count the ongoing upkeep of the cert against that margin too, or mostly just the upfront cost of getting it?

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Asked for a product carbon footprint? Your customer almost always means cradle-to-gate.
Before calculating, ask whether they require PACT V3, Catena-X Rulebook V4 or the TfS guideline.
https://t.co/CSxgUydCKA
#PCF #Sustainability

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@JoshuaGrzasko @hnshah Curious how much of that holds up when the tech moves to a different machine. A lot of "sounds off" seems to depend on knowing what that one spindle sounds like on a normal day.

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Boeing's SPEEA offer guarantees 26% over four years, not the 34% headline. Suppliers hiring the same engineers should budget against that floor, starting with a 10% jump on Oct. 2 if ratified. https://t.co/g9ZNpsoD9v #Aerospace #Engineering

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Amazon plans a $100M+ robotic welding and powder coating plant in Greenwood, Indiana, with 300 jobs by 2028.
Read it as a competitor for your welders and coaters, not a new customer.
https://t.co/A84gMEdSod #Manufacturing #Welding

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Food plants, not car plants, drove a 12% jump in US robot installations in 2025.
Takeaway: budget for integration, tooling, guarding and downtime on top of a robot price averaging about $61,000.
https://t.co/knN6ogXL0z
#Robotics #Automation

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Predictive maintenance is not a plant-wide upgrade over preventive. It is an asset-by-asset choice.
Assign each asset by dominant failure mode, criticality to the constraint, and spare-parts lead time vs the warning window.
https://t.co/7e3E8FbDKf
#Maintenance #Reliability

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Heat hit 40% of manufacturers this year. Supplier fulfillment took the worst of it.

Replace force majeure with an express heat clause: index trigger, notice window, mitigation duty, allocation rules, stated remedy.

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#SupplyChain #Manufacturing

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Rate hike or shift count: which decides buy vs subscribe on a tending cell? On a $120k cell, the Sept. 16 hike adds about $15 a month. Going from one shift to two moves the answer far more.
https://t.co/m53bjwgIIb
#RaaS #Automation

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Vendor surveys put an hour of downtime at $125,000 to $2.3 million. Your line has its own number: lost contribution margin plus incremental recovery costs, with fixed costs left out.
https://t.co/dEft5Qz1Wi
#Manufacturing #Maintenance

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Toyota's 1 trillion yen automation plan implies about $15,900 per robot per year.
At a 7 to 10 year life, that is $111,000 to $159,000 per installed unit, 1.6x to 2.3x A3's $69,575 average robot-only order price.
https://t.co/66w0vmfGe8
#Automation #Manufacturing

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Factory output slipped 0.3% in August, ending seven straight monthly gains.

Autos took the hardest hit: motor vehicles and parts fell 1.2%, with utilization at 69.0%.

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#Manufacturing #SupplyChain

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Lease or buy the next CNC machine? The Fed's quarter point matters less than your tax position.
If your shop pays federal tax, 100% bonus depreciation on a purchased machine is worth about 21% of its cost in year one.
https://t.co/schFeG7a1i
#CNC #Manufacturing