"Improving Supply Chain Resilience with Network Centric Manufacturing"

In recent decades, the industry has adopted strategies for improving quality, productivity and cost control, but we've overlooked the need to improve supply chain resilience - the ability to adapt and thrive in the face of disruption.  The Network Centric Manufacturing (NCM) model offers a solution.

"Interagency Pilot Study Evolves to Building Network-centric Supplier Cities"

This article was co-authored with NASA and published in the January/March 2010 issue of Defense Standardization Process Journal (page 25).  The article uses as a foundation a joint NASA and DoD project to demonstrate interagency interoperability of the supply base.  The article goes on to discuss how many of the principles applied in that project can be leveraged to create a new business model for next generation "Supplier Cities."  This solution has the potential to significantly streamline the assembly and coordination of complex manufacturing supply chains.