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
Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel instructs the oil giant to preserve all documents related to the spill and ongoing cleanup in anticipation of 'future litigation.'...More
The State Administration for Industry and Commerce asked trading standards bodies across the country to step up 'contract supervision' on electronics manufacturers 'such as Apple'...More
Under the proposed tie-up Sharp was to sell 121 million new shares -- about 550 yen apiece -- worth 66.9 billion yen (US$710 million), while Hon Hai would also take half of the Japanese firm's 93% interest in a huge liquid crystal display plant in western Japan....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
