Ford said Thursday Alan Mulally will remain as president and chief executive through at least 2014, as Americas chief Mark Fields was promoted to chief operating officer, putting him in line to succeed Mullaly....More
The Japanese automaker aims to have 85% of all Nissan and Infiniti products that are sold in the United States produced in North America by 2015....More
As a follow-up to my last column on strategic planning and execution (oversimplifying strategy to the point that planning and execution is shortchanged), I'm going to tread, gingerly, into a discussion about the merits of implementing a national manufacturing strategy. In doing so, I’ll highlight another area where manufacturers' strategic initiatives can go awry....More
BHP Billiton chief Marius Kloppers said Wednesday that China's steel surge had peaked, and iron ore and steel growth was likely to decline, as the miner delivered a mixed quarterly production report....More
Eastman Kodak said Friday it would cut an extra 200 jobs and end sales of its consumer inkjet printers under its plan to emerge from bankruptcy protection....More
The looming fiscal cliff and weaker demand in Europe and China have driven U.S. business leaders to their gloomiest outlook in three years, a survey released Wednesday showed....More
The new group would manufacture products ranging from Airbus passenger jets and military transporters to Challenger tanks, Tornado jet fighters and aircraft carriers....More
The Japanese engineering giant, which holds about 67% of Westinghouse, said it would sell as much as 16% of the U.S. firm to buyers with a foothold in nations eager to build nuclear plants, after demand in post-Fukushima Japan fell away....More
With stringent fuel-economy standards and a new generation of vehicle buyers on the horizon, Toyota Motors Sales USA CEO Jim Lentz believes that the industry's stakeholders must work together to succeed....More
A database of NASA Spinoff technologies holds a set of amazing research papers that demonstrate the application of technologies developed for NASA's programs in the military and consumer spheres....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
