Summary
NEW ALBANY, Ohio—A $7.95 bottle of Bath & Body Works foaming hand soap used to take three months to put together. The pieces had to travel more than 13,000 miles from China, Canada and Virginia to the company’s Ohio distribution center.
Bath & Body Works decided it needed to get new products to market more quickly. The result was a production initiative with little parallel in corporate America.
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Manufacturing stands at the precipice of its most significant transformation since the Industrial Revolution. Just as ChatGPT changed how we interact with technology, a similar transformation will soon reshape physical production. The manufacturing world is...
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