Thousands of workers at a plant in eastern China owned by South Korea's LG Group have returned to work after the firm doubled bonuses to end a three-day strike, a government official said Thursday....More
Eric Kulikowski, Director of North American Operations for Philips Respironics presents the employee engagement programs launched and the results achieved at their two western Pennsylvania manufacturing sites over the most recent three years. A people-centric culture has been established and is built on the three pillars of Pride & Passion, Sense of Family and Pursuit of Excellence....More
The U.S. economy took a bite out of manufacturing management's earnings, reveals IndustryWeek's 2010 Salary Survey. Still, cautious optimism exists for salary increases this year....More
This session looks at the essential role unions can play in launching and shaping continuous improvement initiatives and the benefits inherent to contributed ideas and strategies....More
Given the chance to weigh in on the state of the industry, their companies and their employees, manufacturing managers reveal what you always suspected: Things are tough out there, and they're likely to only get tougher....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
