What is Anodizing? Anodizing (a.k.a. anodising) is process that creates an outside skin or layer of protection on aluminum metals (and certain other metals). Anodizing increases wear resistance and can be done with dye to color the parts. Anodizing is not an added layer – like painting – but rather a chemical process that changes […]
Most US manufacturers, finishers, and assorted job shops are being kept out of the digital revolution – and their valuations reflect that! If you do not want to stay in the trough of despair (see my previous blog posts Peloton and Stan Shih’s Smile Curve and How to stay out of the trough of despair
This is post 2 of a three part series on how to stay out of the trough of the smile curve – what I call the trough of despair (see my previous blog posts https://heyscottie.com/2022/07/peloton-and-stan-shihs-smile-curve/ and here). In short, you need to digitize. If you digitize your footprint, you too can get more value for
Most US manufacturers, finishers, and assorted job shops are being kept in the trough of the smile curve (see my previous blog post https://heyscottie.com/2022/07/peloton-and-stan-shihs-smile-curve/). These companies are being pushed down into the lowest valuation level while new companies are being created both to the right and left of this curve and taking all the value
From “OnTheLine,” a podcast* from Products Finishing: The main topic is the industry’s response to regulations to transition existing hexavalent chrome to trivalent chromium. In this podcast, Josh Fish, technical director for PAVCO, INC. talks the implications to finishers of the switch to trivalent chrome. Hexavalent chromium is very forgiving. Trivalent chromium needs more tending:
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Peloton announced recently that they were getting out of actually making things. Why? They hope to get rid of all the lowest value activities and manufacturing is low value. Chief Supply Chain Officer Andrew Rendich calls it “Partnered Manufacturing”. Many industries use this model, especially the aerospace, defense, electronics (called Contract manufacturing), energy, medical, food
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According to a recent article in Bloomberg, US Manufacturing is being boosted by an increase in onshoring, reshoring and near shoring. C-level mentions of onshoring during earnings calls have risen 1000% since the beginning of 2022. It notes a UBS survey that reported 90% of US executives were either currently moving or planning to move
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HeyScottie supports the “Supporting American Printed Circuit Boards Act,” a bill in the US Congress that will boost the US printed circuit board industry. It is being offered by Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Blake Moore (R-UT) and would incentivize purchases of domestically produced printed circuit boards (PCBs) as well as industry investments in factories,
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McKinsey’s Latest Mind the Gap Newsletter (their cleverly named Gen Z newsletter) shows how the most upwardly mobile workers make bold job changes frequently (link here). And can you guess what sectors are they jumping out of? Answer: the manufacturing sector. Where are they jumping to? Answer: anything but the manufacturing sector – which is
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They all mean approximately the same thing to US Manufacturers: bringing production back to the US. If you are tempted to replace some or all of your manufacturing partners – whether its just one injection molding partner or a turnkey CM – check out The Reshoring Initiative, if you subscribe to their newsletter, you’ll get
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