While additive manufacturing can be used as a stopgap for disruption, a long-term transformation could happen. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted real problems with global manufacturing supply ...

Why does the supply chain that served you so well yesterday seem designed to end your company today? Don’t be surprised; that’s how nature works. Yesterday’s design is optimized for yesterday.

At Kearney’s recent Product Excellence and Renewal Lab (PERLab) annual Future of Design conference, Robert Brunner, founder and partner of Ammunition, said, “What sets apart a great design from a good ...

In these challenging times, product value can also be measured, beyond cost and function, by the ability of a manufacturer to quickly make and ship to a customer. With components and labor still not ...