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1 month ago | 
mhisolutionsmag.com | Mary Lou Jay |Robin Lamerson
BY ISTOCK.COM/2D ILLUSTRATIONS AND PHOTOThe ongoing shortage of talent remains a top concern of supply chain companies throughout the world. In fact, the newly released 2025 MHI Annual Industry Report found that 52% of leaders surveyed described hiring and retaining talent as extremely or somewhat challenging.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
mhisolutionsmag.com | Mary Lou Jay |Robin Lamerson
BY Companies desiring greater visibility into their supply chains now have another option for tracking their goods. By using IoT sensors that communicate with low earth orbit (LEO) satellites, they can gain new insights into where their products are and the conditions under which they are traveling. IoT sensors attached to shipping containers, embedded into products or built into trucks can provide a great deal of information about the journey of goods from source to seller to end user.
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Apr 6, 2024 | 
compositesmanufacturingmagazine.com | Mary Lou Jay
Launched in September 2020, the ZEBRA (Zero wastE Blade ReseArch) project is led by French research center IRT Jules Verne, with partners that include resin manufacturer Arkema, R&D center CANOE, wind farm operator Engie SA, blade manufacturer LM Wind Power, glass fiber producer Owens Corning and recycling expert SUEZ. ZEBRA’s goal is to demonstrate, at full scale, the technical, economic and environmental advantages of fully recyclable thermoplastic wind turbine blades.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
mhisolutionsmag.com | Mary Lou Jay |Robin Lamerson
Artificial intelligence (AI) is currently in the hype stage of new technology adoption; some proponents see it as the answer to many problems, including, for the supply chain industry, last mile logistics. While AI does have potential for resolving some last mile issues, it is just one part of an overall solution. It will take a combination of technology and human intelligence to take last mile delivery to the next level.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
compositesmanufacturingmagazine.com | Mary Lou Jay
A theory about the wireless transmission of energy, developed by inventor Nikola Tesla more than a century ago, helped pave the way for the recent construction of the world’s largest freestanding GFRP tower in Texas. Viziv Technologies has been researching and building on Tesla’s work for years. The company hopes to use radio waves instead of wires to transmit electric power from a generating source to locations a thousand miles away.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
compositesmanufacturingmagazine.com | Mary Lou Jay
The carbon fiber buckets for Midnight’s seats are manufactured using tailored fiber placement (TFP), with carbon fiber woven into specific preform shapes using resin transfer molding. “The seat back shells will also be made using recycled carbon fiber with the raw material eventually coming from the manufacturing waste of our fuselage composites,” says Muniz. To speed the certification process, many AAM manufacturers selected composite materials already approved by the FAA for aerospace.
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
medium.com | Mary Lou Jay
I guess this is the part I say Happy New Month….. January felt like it was never going to end, it dragged so long that I kept wondering if January was 62 days instead of 31 days. I like to believe I am not the only one in the shoes, right? I guess that is what my Communications Lecturer described as “Psychological time”For starters, “Psychological time” is a term used to describe the human emotional feelings attached to time.
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
mhisolutionsmag.com | Mary Lou Jay |Robin Lamerson
FeatureBY It’s been a milestone year for artificial intelligence (AI), with generative AI technology like ChatGPT, Google’s Bard and Bing Chat capturing the public’s attention and generating a great deal of discussion about their potential for rendering humans in the workplace obsolete. In the supply chain, at least, that’s not going to happen.
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Nov 8, 2023 | 
compositesmanufacturingmagazine.com | Mary Lou Jay
A decade ago, manufacturing large composite tooling was generally an expensive, months-long process. But things began to change in 2014, when the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Cincinnati Inc. introduced the first Big Area Additive Manufacturing (BAAM) multi-material printer and demonstrated how it could produce tooling at a lower cost and in a matter of days.
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Nov 8, 2023 | 
compositesmanufacturingmagazine.com | Mary Lou Jay
During General Motors Composites Technology Days in August, ACMA members showcased breakthrough products to GM designers, engineers and decision makers. Here are a few of the solutions presented. Lattice StructuresReplacing traditional solid laminates with a customized lattice structure in composite automotive body panels could potentially save OEMs money and reduce vehicle weight.
