There are the guys you dated, the guys you'd never have dated and then there were the guys you took home to meet your parents. (Make gender adjustments to fit your situation.) I've neatly summed up the universe of eligible men you encountered in the handy diagram below. Feel free to use it with your single friends....More
A look inside the plants of these Houston manufacturers: Farouk Systems, Toshiba Industrial Products, Emerson’s Daniel Measurement and Control plant, Blackwell Plastics, LSI Industries and Neutex Advanced Energy Group.
'Manufacturing has been one of the few bright spots in the recovery, and if we are going to meet the President’s goal of creating one million new manufacturing jobs by 2017, we’ll need an aggressive set of policy measures to make that happen,' said Scott Paul, executive director of Alliance for American Manufacturing....More
IndustryWeek has long asserted that manufacturing production is a source of competitiveness for companies and the countries in which they reside....More
The announcement -- one of the group's largest talent recruitment drives in Taiwan in recent years -- comes as the conglomerate is slowing new hiring at its sprawling factories in China....More
Icahn, in a letter made public by the company's board of directors, said the plan to take the company private in a $24.4 billion buyout led by founder Michael Dell "is not in the best interests of Dell shareholders and substantially undervalues the company."...More
The largest U.S. automaker said it expects to hire more than 4,000 new information technology workers over the next three to five years to staff centers in Arizona, Texas, Georgia and Michigan....More
The European car market still has a long, bumpy road ahead before it can hope to again see sales numbers approaching the pre-crisis glory days, Ford's European chief said Tuesday....More
German carmakers offered a rare ray of optimism at the International Geneva Motor Show Tuesday, with their heavy footprints outside of Europe allowing them to almost shrug off the continued crisis there....More
China's market may be an alternative for many small- and medium-sized businesses that are seeking revenue and profit growth especially when we here in the U.S. are suffering from economic stagnation, continued high unemployment and a lack of direction from the federal government. But who has the money to travel to China to investigate the market or hire new employees to handle China?...More
Remember Evel Knievel? Garbed in the tacky, white leather outfit that only the 1970s could produce, Knievel would launch himself and his Harley-Davidson across obstacle-strewn distances mortals of lesser stuff (or greater sense) wouldn't dream of attempting. Staging his daredevil stunts was an expensive proposition and Knievel was often short on cash but there's one thing I can guarantee he never said: "I'm low on funds, so I'll use some of my crew to hold up the ramp instead of building scaffolding."...More
Strategy calls for greater coordination among government agencies, stepped-up intelligence and law enforcement efforts, and improved efforts to raise awareness in the private sector of the risk of trade-secrets theft....More
Rosneft signed Wednesday an agreement with ExxonMobil giving the U.S. super-major access to seven Arctic fields in exchange for the Russian firm's possible participation in a lucrative Alaskan gas project....More
Hit hard in Europe in 2012, Ford's CFO cites the need for government and companies operating in Europe to restructure to strengthen the industry....More
Too little water, and then too much. That's a very abbreviated description of the conditions in the United States that tugged at Briggs & Stratton (IW 500/350) in 2012. For the outdoor power equipment company, drought and then flooding had very different results....More
Most small- to medium-size businesses have been slow to get on the social media bandwagon, but that is about to change, according to Constant Contact, the online marketing firm....More
Denso said the investment -- of which $750 million and 1,200 will go to U.S. operations -- comes as automakers are looking to their suppliers for help meeting tough new fuel economy standards and will allow Denso to expand its customer base....More
Going public, an option pushed by the United Auto Workers union retiree health benefits fund, could complicate Fiat’s aim to boost Chrysler shareholdings....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
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