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
The IndustryWeek Best Plant Conference, IW’s annual salute to outstanding North American manufacturing facilities, provides continuous improvement practitioners the opportunity to learn from the best of the best, the winners of the IW Best Plants Award program....More
National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Deborah Hersman said investigators were working "around the clock" to understand what led to the Jan. 7 fire aboard a parked Japan Airlines 787, as well as a smoking battery that forced the emergency landing of an All Nippon Airways 787 on Jan. 16....More
The Japanese firm is taking part in a wider probe launched after aviation watchdogs in at least four countries grounded the next-generation aircraft....More
Corning Glass third generation is 20% thinner and 40% more scratch resistant and suited to larger displays including touchscreen computers and interactive TVs....More
The two topped a list of nearly four dozen 2013 models from all makers, with short lists in the two categories including competitors from Honda, Ford and Mazda....More
Manufacturers today are presented with a rich array of new innovations and technologies to help them compete -- harnessing them can make all the difference....More
Companies like Samsung, Sony, LG, Sharp and Panasonic showing at the International CES in Las Vegas this week are making a new push for so-called "ultra HD" high definition of 4K, which can provide stunning, lifelike images at a steep price....More
While attending the FABTECH Expo in Las Vegas last month, I interviewed several companies that do all or the majority of their manufacturing in the U.S. to find out what they are doing to successfully compete in the global marketplace....More
Huawei has ambitions to expand globally, although concerns about its possible ties to the Chinese state have raised concerns in several Western countries....More
Nestle says venture is 'opportunity to develop and commercialize truly innovative and scientifically validated botanical-based nutrition for personalized healthcare in gastro-intestinal health.'...More
The A350XWB (extra-wide body), which Airbus expects to begin delivering in 2014, will "allow us to capture 50% of the long-haul aircraft market," forecast the company's CEO Fabrice Bregier....More
For Phil Duncan, global design officer for Procter & Gamble Co. (IW 500/11), innovation in its simplest form is "putting together what is known with something that is unknown."...More
Tide Pods come out of what CEO Robert McDonald calls "an increasingly promising pipeline of category- and brand-creating innovations," which P&G hopes will turn the recent tide of lackluster growth....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
