This month, I'm excited to share the results of Fictiv’s 10th Annual State of Manufacturing & Supply Chain Report. Every year, we survey hundreds of supply chain and manufacturing leaders across ...

From clothing to cars to canned peaches, American-made products are made of parts – often parts sourced from other companies in other countries. Supply chains are critically important to domestic and ...

Twenty-first century manufacturers post-COVID-19 have been facing significant challenges across their functions in supply chain, risk, operations, and customer experience. Threats by new (often more ...

For decades, engineers relied on a “design–build–test–fix” loop to bring new products to market. Engineers would create drawings or CAD models, send them to manufacturing, and wait for physical ...

For the last few years, the global supply chain has felt like it’s permanently on edge. One delay turns into another. A missing component stalls an entire production line. A factory halfway across the ...

Once a perennial global leader in drug discovery and development, the United States is no longer at the forefront of drug manufacturing. Over the past few decades, active pharmaceutical ingredients ...

Process manufacturers are under pressure. Growing pressure, in fact. (For our purposes, process includes companies in the rolled goods, woven goods, packaging, extrusion/injection molding and ...

Let me start by saying I’m not much of a fan of predictions. Especially when it comes to technology. It’s too easy for prognosticators to throw out ideas of what may or may not come to pass only to ...

Design for manufacturing (DfM) is evolving from traditional engineering practices into a data-intensive discipline that requires real-time integration of manufacturing capabilities, supplier ...