Manufacturing Leadership Journal

The Manufacturing Leadership Journal April 2022

Bold Ideas for a Better Future

SURVEY: Supply Disruptions to Continue Into 2023

A new MLC survey warns that disruption could continue for as long as two years as manufacturers strive to adopt more resilient supply chain strategies.

How to Economically Increase Supply Chain Resiliency

ATS has adopted three transformational initiatives to advance supply chain visibility and optimization without excessive system investments.

Building Resilient Supply Chains

Manufacturers can take a range of actions, from integrating for visibility to digital models, to create resiliency.

10 Steps to a Future-Proof Supply Chain

This pragmatic approach to building resilient M4.0 supply chains is essential for thriving in today’s new normal.

Fixing Broken Supply Chains

True supply chain resilience requires more than knee-jerk reactions. It requires a paradigm shift.

The Shift to 4.0 Supply Chains

Is Just-In-Time now DOA? Many manufacturers are now questioning whether JIT approaches are still valid in disruptive times.

Engage Your Partners in a Digital Supply Chain

How manufacturers can help smaller supply chain partners embrace the changes needed for a successful digital supply chain.

“Sharing supply chain information is critical to ensure resiliency. But it’s no use if you don’t have actionable strategies that allow you to make effective use of that information to do something.”

Dialogue: Sanjeev Sethi, Viatris Inc.

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Also in this issue

DIALOGUE: Building Resiliency Amidst Disruption

The key to resilient supply chains is the availability of quick and accurate information, says Sanjeev Sethi, COO, Viatris.

POV: Resilient 4.0 Supply Chains

Building a resilient supply chain has to include empowering the whole ecosystem.

Congratulations to the 2022 Manufacturing Leadership Award Winners

The high-performing companies and outstanding leaders winning 2022 Manufacturing Leadership Awards.

M2030 Perspective: The Distributed Enterprise

Additive manufacturing, distributed production networks, and blockchain will combine to create a new manufacturing enterprise model by 2030.

Thinking Beyond Normal

Leaders need to be ready to think and act outside the normal lanes of operation and stay ahead of future…

Coping With Volatility

Manufacturing needs to adopt a more flexible, resilient approach to global supply chains, believes Madison Industries’ Filtration Group CPO Tim…

Cyber Paradigm Shift

OT cybersecurity has new importance for the future, believes Dragos VP, Peter Vescuso.

Learning from Disruption

The disruptive impact of the pandemic has highlighted the importance of more flexible, demand-driven approaches that can adapt to sudden…

The Culture is the Company

Fostering a culture of collaboration, partnership, and agility is key to leadership success, believes ALOM Technologies’ CEO Hannah Kain.

Disruption Will Be Business as Usual

Supply chain resiliency and agility are manufacturing’s highest priorities in a world where disruption will become the new business normal,…

Predictive Opportunities Ahead

Targeted automation projects harnessing predictive analytics will help manufacturers become more efficient, agile, and flexible while maintaining great quality, believes…

SURVEY: Future Outlook: Hazy

While pandemic disruptions created a rush to move to M4.0, MLC’s latest Factories of the Future survey finds those plans…

Manufacturing’s Sustainability Challenge: The Race is On

The desire to adopt more sustainable and environmentally responsible practices is now an overwhelming sentiment among manufacturing executives, reveals the…

Pedal to the Metal

Manufacturers see data’s massive potential to improve operations, predict disruptions, and bring about new revenue streams, but realizing that promise…

Growing Pains

Manufacturers see data’s massive potential to improve operations, predict disruptions, and bring about new revenue streams, but realizing that promise…