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The Internet of Things Will Change Your Company, Not Just Your Products

Harvard Business Review

The resulting challenges may include new contract-manufacturing relationships, which can be a complicated and disorienting process for the uninitiated. Operations. When product-based companies add services and connectivity, operational requirements increase.

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The Trade War with China Could Accelerate 3-D Printing in the U.S.

Harvard Business Review

Those supports will be crucial to getting manufacturers on board with the new technology. It will take time and effort: Additive manufacturing require a steep learning curve for engineers used to working on conventional assembly lines, and each part must be tested extensively to make sure it holds up under wartime conditions.