Understanding the Challenges of Today’s Digitized Supply Chain

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It seems that the pandemic has presented more challenges to the supply chain than we’ve ever seen before, but why? To help unpack the challenges of today’s supply chain, today Thom Singer and Craig Brown welcome Jennifer Herron, founder and CEO of Action Engineering.  Jennifer works to help manufacturers build resilient futures centered on connected, trusted models.  Jennifer is the author of</span> <a href= "https://amzn.to/3bNDAgw"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Re-Use Your CAD: The Model-Based CAD Handbook</span></em></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and is working to bring vision to the industry so that people can reuse their CAD to their business value. Today she and Craig take a deep dive into the ins and outs of reusing CAD, the many changes that are happening in the digitization of the supply chain and who exactly is driving the standards behind these exciting new changes. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On today’s podcast, you will learn:</span></p> <p><strong>How to reuse your CAD</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">This information is not tool-set specific, it’s about exchanging models. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">It’s all about data exchange and exchanging information about a product that needs to be built. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Communication about acceptable exchanges has to happen between all invested parties. </span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>An overview of changes in the digitized supply chain</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">More and more companies are using 3D models to enhance digitization. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Reusing data to create manufacturing and process models is fun. </span></li> <li style="font-