Columns: March 2021

The thousands of professionals who buy, specify and design parts are in many ways the under-appreciated heroes of the industrial supply chain.

In a mini drone cast by AFS Corporate Member Aristo Cast Inc. (Almont, Michigan), 3D printed wax patterns and generative design were used to achieve a complex support structure.

Question: Who’s the first point-person at the foundry responsible for looking at the buyer’s contract?

In my last column, we discussed the conditions propelling a significant global supply chain shift and the positive trend toward localization that is increasing the rate of reshoring by U.S.