How We Help Our Customers Get the Best Possible Castings, Extrusions and Machined Parts “Our manufacturing supplier cannot deliver zero-defect quality.” This is something we at MES often hear during our meetings with prospective new customers. It’s also one of the biggest obstacles some lighting, transportation, and EV companies have in sourcing their own manufacturing suppliers. [...]
Shifting Your Supply Chain Strategy to Align with the New Normal Insights for small businesses from the AACG Economic Summit 2022 If the pandemic taught us anything it’s that there is no “normal”—new or otherwise. Instead, what we have is what, perhaps, we should have had all along: smart, nimble supply strategies that work within [...]
Aluminum Pricing Outlook - China China – Aluminum Update Price: RM prices have softened a bit in China due to the lockdown and lower demand for housing. Pricing outlook for the rest of 2022 and 2023 remains robust – Last 90 days have seen a reduction of about 9% but the end of the year [...]
Just-In-time to Just-In-Case Inventory Management Our customers were greatly affected by the global pandemic of 2020 and the subsequent container issues. And frankly, so were we. But we’re not ones to sit idly by and let things unfold organically because that would be disastrous for us and for our customers. Besides, we stand firm in [...]
HR Impact: How MES Became a People-First Organization It’s been a little more than 8 years since Heena Shah came to MES as Chief People Officer. Since then, MES has grown exponentially with a reach that spans 9 countries and includes hundreds of team members in 20+ cities around the world. Being responsible for all [...]
Challenges in Picking Suppliers for EV Vehicles! If you’re an automotive manufacturer in the electric vehicle market, you’re already dealing with supply chain issues, but you also may be plagued by something else: Finding a trusted and reliable supplier for high-quality Tier I castings, forgings, machinings, and stampings for your electric vehicle (EV) production line. [...]
What We Got Wrong About COVID Thirty months since our team members first learned about Coronavirus (remember calling it that!) and there is a lot we have learned. It is sobering to think about over half a billion people around the world have contracted Covid and we have over 6.35 million recorded deaths (excluding China, [...]
Developing Precision Machined Castings for Drivetrain Application CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY When you’re a world leader in driveline systems and components, you expect world-class performance from your suppliers. So, when there’s a supplier quality issue and you’ve already employed reasonable and customary tactics to resolve it (to no avail), it’s time for drastic measures. It’s time [...]
Digitizing MES – 10 Year Journey of Building Tech MES Inc. was founded in 2007 by the company’s current President and CEO, Hiten Shah. Like other start-up companies at the time, Hiten and his team utilized pre-established software platforms to assist them through the scaling of the business. However, when the MES team received orders [...]
Inverter Research: Using a Test Rig to Improve EV Batteries What do a group of student researchers, thermal response, and MES have in common? They’re all part of a relatively new research project focused on the study of thermal management and predictive modeling to develop better EV batteries for the burgeoning e-Mobility market. This collaboration [...]