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Made In The USA Back In Style For Small Businesses
May 23, 2013 | by Joyce M. Rosenberg, AP Business Writer | News | Comments
Reverie is one of a growing number of small businesses that are chipping away at the decades-old trend of manufacturing overseas. They're doing what's known as reshoring, moving production back to U.S. factories as labor costs grow in countries like China and India and shipping also becomes more expensive.
Chevy Spark To Be Among Lowest-Price Electric Cars
May 23, 2013 8:13 am | News | Comments
General Motors Co. says the Spark EV subcompact will be among the lowest-priced electric cars in...
Glaxo, U.S. Partnering To Develop New Antibiotics
May 23, 2013 7:38 am | by Hzl-Laj, The Associated Press | News | Comments
GlaxoSmithKline PLC says it's starting an unusual collaboration with the U.S. government to...
Ford To End Auto Production In Australia
May 22, 2013 10:03 pm | by Kristen Gelineau, Associated Press | News | Comments
The closure of the U.S. automaker's plants in the state of Victoria will mean the loss of 1,200...
Fisher-Price Moving, Eliminating About 100 NY Jobs
May 23, 2013 9:09 pm | News | CommentsThe majority of jobs will be reassigned to Mattel's El Segundo, Calif., headquarters, and workers have been offered relocation packages, but an unspecified number of employees received layoff notices, said Fisher-Price, the maker of Little People and Power Wheels.
MAPI: 1Q U.S. Trade In Manufactures Stays Flat
May 23, 2013 9:01 pm | News | CommentsFor calendar year 2013, Chinese manufactured exports are on track to nearly double U.S. exports, with a surplus of more than $900 billion, compared with a U.S. deficit of $500 billion, as the trade gap between these global powers continues to expand, according to a report from the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation (MAPI).
Campbell Buying Plum Organics Baby Food Maker
May 23, 2013 8:52 pm | by Candice Choi, AP Food Industry Writer | News | CommentsThe company, which also makes Prego pasta sauces and Pepperidge Farm cookies, had been struggling to grow sales of its canned soups in recent years as people increasingly look for foods with a fresher feel. To diversity its stable of products, Campbell also recently purchased Bolthouse Farms.
Study: No Higher Cancer Rate At Conn. Pratt Plant
May 23, 2013 8:49 pm | by Stephen Singer, AP Business Writer | News | CommentsThe researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Illinois at Chicago said they identified 723 workers diagnosed with tumors between 1976 and 2004 at the United Technologies Corp. subsidiary. The tumors were malignant, benign or unspecified and included 277 cases of brain cancer.
Is It Possible to Bring Manufacturing Back To The U.S.?
May 23, 2013 5:25 pm | by David Mantey, Executive Editor, PD&D | News | CommentsSeveral factors come into play when manufacturers make the decision to move or reshore. The wage gap is never the only reason, but in all cases, the move makes business sense — it’s not simply a feel good story. While reshoring has found its way into a lot of headlines, Young says that it is primarily a U.S. phenomenon.
Is It Possible to Bring Manufacturing Back To The U.S.?
May 23, 2013 4:50 pm | by David Mantey, Executive Editor, PD&D | News | CommentsSeveral factors come into play when manufacturers make the decision to move or reshore. The wage gap is never the only reason, but in all cases, the move makes business sense — it’s not simply a feel good story. While reshoring has found its way into a lot of headlines, Young says that it is primarily a U.S. phenomenon.
Is It Possible to Bring Manufacturing Back To The U.S.?
May 23, 2013 3:59 pm | by David Mantey, Executive Editor, PD&D | News | CommentsSeveral factors come into play when manufacturers make the decision to move or reshore. The wage gap is never the only reason, but in all cases, the move makes business sense — it’s not simply a feel good story. While reshoring has found its way into a lot of headlines, Young says that it is primarily a U.S. phenomenon.
Is It Possible to Bring Manufacturing Back To The U.S.?
May 23, 2013 3:56 pm | by David Mantey, Executive Editor, PD&D | News | CommentsSeveral factors come into play when manufacturers make the decision to move or reshore. The wage gap is never the only reason, but in all cases, the move makes business sense — it’s not simply a feel good story. While reshoring has found its way into a lot of headlines, Young says that it is primarily a U.S. phenomenon.
Is It Possible to Bring Manufacturing Back To The U.S.?
May 23, 2013 3:56 pm | by David Mantey, Executive Editor, PD&D | News | CommentsSeveral factors come into play when manufacturers make the decision to move or reshore. The wage gap is never the only reason, but in all cases, the move makes business sense — it’s not simply a feel good story. While reshoring has found its way into a lot of headlines, Young says that it is primarily a U.S. phenomenon.
Is It Possible to Bring Manufacturing Back To The U.S.?
May 23, 2013 3:55 pm | by David Mantey, Executive Editor, PD&D | News | CommentsSeveral factors come into play when manufacturers make the decision to move or reshore. The wage gap is never the only reason, but in all cases, the move makes business sense — it’s not simply a feel good story. While reshoring has found its way into a lot of headlines, Young says that it is primarily a U.S. phenomenon.
Shuttered NM Plant Resumes Making Peanut Butter
May 23, 2013 3:20 pm | by Jeri Clausing, Associated Press | News | CommentsThe eastern New Mexico peanut butter plant shuttered eight months ago after a salmonella outbreak is back in production, and company officials say their coveted natural and organic butters could be back on store shelves within a month.
Continuous Improvement: Real Improvement Or Mediocrity?
May 23, 2013 3:15 pm | by Mark Latino, President, Reliability Center, Inc. | Articles | CommentsTo make a difference, one must change the attitude of organizations from incremental improvements to quantum leaps forward, from technology advancements to human performance advancements and from problem solution to problem elimination. Technology will continue to advance and people will continue to solve problems.
Connecting The Back Office To The Plant Floor
May 23, 2013 3:11 pm | by Karie Daudt, Director of Marketing, TURCK | Articles | CommentsThough industrial Ethernet has been evolving for many years, it is quickly becoming the foundation for many manufacturing applications. Industrial Ethernet provides the connectivity and communication that today’s applications demand for productivity and efficiency improvement.
Interpreting The Human Genome
May 23, 2013 3:07 pm | by Silicon Mechanics | Articles | CommentsKnome had been using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for computationally intensive tasks, but needed to provide a locally-installed system with full control for clinically-oriented customers, who are sensitive about security, version control, and file transfer times.
Fire Marshal's Office: Panel Had Blast Site Access
May 23, 2013 1:53 pm | News | CommentsHowever, in a statement issued Wednesday, the state agency said the CSB was given access to the scene, worked with other agencies during excavations and neighborhood surveys, and collected its own chemical samples with ATF assistance. The statement says no evidence was destroyed or compromised.
J&J Forecasts 10 New Drug Applications By 2017
May 23, 2013 1:51 pm | News | CommentsThe New Brunswick, N.J., company says its pipeline of drugs in late-stage clinical development include a potential hepatitis C treatment being reviewed by regulars, a version of the anti-psychotic Invega designed to last three months and new vaccines for flu, rabies and polio.
Between Economy And Trouble, Obama Approval Steady
May 23, 2013 1:36 pm | by Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press | News | CommentsThe data suggests the economy could be insulating Obama from the immediate troubles confronting his administration. But it also indicates that while a growing number of those surveyed are more optimistic about the economy, they are evenly split on whether they approve or disapprove of his handling of it.
New Rules To Keep Mercury From Calif. Landfills
May 23, 2013 11:30 am | News | CommentsNew California rules will require the makers of new thermostats to do a better job of keeping old ones containing the neurotoxin mercury out of landfills. Since 2006 it has been against state law to sell mercury thermostats in California, but millions of old ones are still in use. Tens of thousands of them are replaced every year.
Tesla Repays DOE Loan Nine Years Early
May 23, 2013 11:15 am | by Joel Hans, Managing Editor, Manufacturing.net | News | CommentsTesla Motors, the California-based electric vehicle manufacturer, has announced that it has paid off its 2010 loan from the Department of Energy (DOE) in full as of today. The payment of $451.8 million repays the full loan with interest. The company claims it is the only American automaker to have fully repaid the government of its loans.
Driving Manufacturing Success by Backing Up
May 23, 2013 10:36 am | by Michael Krutikov, Senior Global Marketing Manager, SMB Data Protection, at Symantec | Articles | CommentsToday’s smaller manufacturers are creating enormous amounts of data — everything from new product designs to top-secret intellectual property, as well as a constant flow of customer and sales information that must be managed and protected every day. To say that this data is vital would be understating the value of its constant use, and any loss of information could be devastating.
