1/ #Manufacturing is broken. We can all see that now. Global supply chains have been bending and breaking under the strain of #COVIDー19. From medical supplies to plastics to automakers, brands are scrambling to refactor their supply chains to adapt to our changed reality.
2/ At E xD Atelier, we’ve seen the writing on the wall for the last two years, and it’s my position that CoVid-19 will be to #cloudmanufacturing what SARS was to ecommerce. That is to say, the cause of the bend in the elbow, the catalyst that saw adoption explode.
3/ The rigidity and lack of dynamism in traditional supply chains leave them exposed to all manner of risk. We've seen that risk become reality with trade war and now #coronavirus
4/ Few have been fast enough or reactive enough to refactor their supply chains to stay on top of their supply let alone react effectively to the step-change in demand for new kinds of products.
5/ This is because supply chains are hyper-fragmented messes. Fragmented across geographies, languages, technical languages, trade terms, certifying bodies and all this with a lack of transparency, a lack of interoperability and a restricted ability to scale.
6/ Cloud-manufacturing solves these problems. Period.
Distributed resources encapsulated into cloud services and managed in a centralised way. A vast, virtualised network of production resources ready to be configured, and reconfigured to suit a brand's needs.
Distributed resources encapsulated into cloud services and managed in a centralised way. A vast, virtualised network of production resources ready to be configured, and reconfigured to suit a brand's needs.
7/ We are here, doing this already. Others will be here soon, too. This is the future of manufacturing.
