Manufacturing executives, especially those tasked with managing the financial end of the operation, are always looking for positive signs in the marketplace. While it's too soon to conclude that 2013 will be everything manufacturers have been hoping for, here's a good news/bad news/best news scenario....More
Manufacturers devote considerable time and resources to managing their physical supply chain, but often it's their financial supply chain that needs the most attention....More
A joint-venture deal between Sony and medical equipment maker Olympus has won regulatory approval, the firms said Wednesday, after it was held up by China's competition watchdog....More
Finance ministers of Britain, France and Germany say internationally coordinated effort required to stop practice of shifting profits to pay less tax....More
Storm damage to your critical suppliers and customers may cause you significant losses, but insurance may provide protection for your bottom line....More
Dialogue introducing new forecasting study on what the economy might look like in 2025 with a manufacturing resurgence. Video from the Aspen Institute....More
Manufacturing makes America strong. It makes families and communities strong. It provides national security. It gives us energy security. And for the 12 million men and women who work in manufacturing, it gives us pride....More
Christopher Barnatt of ExplainingComputers.com demonstrates how Big Data is transforming the business and industrial worlds and enabling new technologies and new breakthroughs that will help manufacturers work more efficiently than ever before....More
Beyond an initial novelty, 3D Printing could have a game-changing impact on consumer culture, copyright and patent law, and even the very concept of scarcity on which our economy is based....More
Christopher Barnatt of ExplainingTheFuture.com illustrates the inner workings of additive manufacturing machines and provides some real-life examples of how 3-D printing technology could dramatically change the manufacturing and retail industries as we know them today....More
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab break down the engineering and design challenges they faced during the Curiosity rover's complicated landing near the Martian equator on Aug. 5, 2012....More
