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If one follows the money and the national conversation circulating around auto industry leaders such as Tesla, GM, Ford, Toyota, and potential game-changers such as Byton, the ever-evolving auto industry seems to universally agree on one thing: the future is electric. Although electric vehicles (EVs) only accounted for approximately 2 million of the vehicles on…
The creation, marketing, and ultimately selling of a successful OEM product typically comes down to three simple factors: • Value: How much value does the product offer the consumer for the cost? This does not necessarily mean that the cheaper the product, the more successful. Instead, it’s more helpful and accurate to question what the…
The idea of a raging fire consuming large portions of what we hold dear is one of the oldest threats mankind has faced — and while multiple millennia’s worth of technology, planning, and old-fashioned trial-and-error have minimized this risk somewhat in general households, in the manufacturing industry many analysts have moved this issue back to…
Since the early 1900s when Henry Ford pioneered the original assembly line, the evolution of the supply chain has been tightly linked to the auto industry — and ever since it has been held up by manufacturers as a shining beacon representing what a supply chain is capable of. Compared to most modern manufacturers, auto…
In their search for a supply chain partner capable of storing, handling, and fulfilling ASICs for use in life-saving healthcare products, GE found exactly what they needed at Partstat. In March 2018, Partstat initiated a last time buy on behalf of GE with STMicroelectronics, Europe’s largest chip maker based on revenue, for over 35,000 ASICs.…
When it comes to storing electronic components, it’s not a matter of if an OEM needs to find a solution for it, but when — and at what cost. Virtually all companies at some point are forced to accumulate large quantities of inventory necessary to complete the life cycle of their product. This can be…