The Winners And Losers of Plummeting Oil Prices

For some, cheaper oil prices made long holiday trips possible. But for others whose bottom line is conneced to the oil industry, the decline is starting to take a toll. For people who's job depend on oil production, the talk is of layoffs and tough times ahead.

Dec 26th, 2014

Today in Manufacturing Podcast

Today in Manufacturing Podcast

Today in Manufacturing has a new podcast brought to you by the editors of Industrial Media. In each episode, we discuss the five biggest stories in manufacturing, and the implications they have on the industry moving forward.

Raytheon Intelligence & Space’s high-energy laser systems use photons, or particles of light, to carry out military missions and civil defense.

Raytheon Shoots Down Drones, Mortars with Laser

The DE M-SHORAD effort is aimed at protecting soldiers against various aerial threats.

Ukrainian serviceman Anton pets a cat in a basement previously used by Russian soldiers as a temporary base in the village of Malaya Rohan, Kharkiv region, east Ukraine, Monday, May 16, 2022.

Ukraine Says Mission at Mariupol Steel Mill is Complete

Experts generally put the number of fighters at the plant at anywhere from a few hundred to 1,000.

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GE Appliances Opens $70M Plant in South Carolina

Team leaders and maintenance employees completed more than 5,700 hours of training in robotics, welding and mechatronics.

Israeli Harel Hershtik, vice president of strategy and technology at Scentech Medical, demonstrates his company's product, which he says can detect certain diseases by analysing a patient's breath, at the company's office in Rehovet, Israel, May 3, 2022. When he was 20 years old, Hershtik planned and executed a murder, shooting his victim in the head and burying the body in a crime that a quarter of a century later is still widely remembered for its grisly details. Today, he is the brains behind an Israeli health-tech startup with the backing of prominent public figures and deep-pocketed investors.

Convicted Killer the Tech Whiz Behind Startup

And it's poised to make millions.

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Milwaukee Tool Announces $200M Expansion, 1,000 More Jobs

Many of the positions will be in technical and engineering roles.

Visitors cross a suspension bridge for the pedestrians that is the longest such construction in the world shortly after its official opening at a mountain resort in Dolni Morava, Czech Republic, Friday, May 13, 2022. The 721-meter (2,365 feet) long bridge is built at the altitude of more than 1,100 meters above the sea level. It connects two ridges of the mountains up to 95 meters above a valley between them.

Longest Pedestrian Suspension Bridge Opens

Up to 500 people will be allowed to be on the bridge at any one time.

This Feb. 10, 2022, image released by the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance shows Msituni, a giraffe calf born with an unusual disorder that caused her legs to bend the wrong way, at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, north of San Diego.

Baby Giraffe Walks Again with Custom Orthotic

It was the company's first animal patient.

Michelle Bockman

STANLEY X Appoints Michelle Bockman as President

Bockman brings experience leading major corporate transformations to build new sources of growth and innovation for the company.

Chocolate drops covered with candy nonpareils (left), a bowl of colorful candy nonpareils (center), pharmaceutical caplets coated with nonpareils (right).

Candy-Coated Pills Could Prevent Pharmaceutical Fraud

It's called "CandyCode."

French Fiberglass Maker Hiring 400 in $28M Georgia Expansion

The company will restart a fiberglass furnace at a plant it purchased in 2019.

Automated Warehouse

3 Investments to Improve Warehouse Safety

These strategies can create a more repeatable and predictive environment that will ultimately save money and time.