Digi-Key video series highlights Supply Chain Transformation

Digi-Key Electronics is launching a new video series called “Supply Chain Transformed”, highlighting the stops a product makes from design to production, including its route through warehouses, manufacturing facilities and shipping processes.

The first video in the series – available now – is “Components at the Source”. Asking the question How did these products get here?, it follows the supply chain back to its source, touring one of Molex’s manufacturing facilities to learn how the supplier is innovating.

With so many eyes on the global supply chain this year, highlights Digi-Key, it’s more important than ever for accessible, automated monitoring and tracking to be available.

The second video in the series, called “The Product Journey,” will be released in early November. This episode will follow a product through its journey from origin to destination, and explore the technologies used to optimize routes, manage fleets of vehicles and track assets.

The third video, “Next Generation Production,” will showcase the variety of monitoring solutions available to ensure the security, safety and reliability of products, such as temperature monitoring, condition-based monitoring, the use of blockchain in supply chain management and more. The episode will be available in December.

“Sensors are essential to tracking products through the supply chain and are increasingly becoming smarter and better connected,” said Robbie Paul, director of IoT business solutions at Digi-Key. “Digi-Key is committed to enabling the development of next-generation monitoring solutions that transform the supply chain in order to help the world operate faster and more effectively.”

Sponsored by Analog Devices and Molex, the three-part video series is produced by Supplyframe.

“If we are to sustainably scale a resilient and secure supply chain that delivers on the projected growth of eCommerce, it must be highly automated,” said Donnacha O’Riordan, director, connected motion and robotics for Analog Devices. “Cobots and autonomous mobile robots will be at the heart of that automation. At ADI our DNA is in the precision technologies that bridge the physical and digital worlds. These are the technologies that enable humans and machines to collaborate.”

You can see the full series here.

Previous Digi-Key video series include “Factory Tomorrow“, “Smarter, Safer Cities” and “Potentially Genius“.

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