"Everyone gets training," says Eduardo Salas, a professor at the University of Central Florida. "But what matters? What works?" Salas and co-authors explore those questions and say what happens before and after the actual training is as important as the training itself....More
A French court ruled Friday in favor of employees of food industry group Danone (IW 1000/174) who sued their employer for imposing an English-language computer program.
The court in Vienne in southeastern France agreed that a 1994 law outlining the "obligatory use of the French language" had to be upheld in the factory....More
Every member of the U.S. Army Special Forces receives extensive training. Their leadership training offers lessons to be learned by organizations embarking on a lean transformation....More
With a skilled production workforce in short supply, manufacturers such as ArcelorMittal, Permac Industries and others are stepping up and collaborating with training partners to develop curriculums that meet their needs....More
Survey respondents share the positives and negatives about the future of U.S. manufacturing, their jobs, their salaries, the skilled-worker shortage and more....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
