India's negotiations with France's Dassault Aviation on a $12-billion deal for Rafale fighter jets have stalled due to disagreements over the production of the planes in India....More
I must not be paying close enough attention. It would seem to me that the U.S. Department of Defense would be required to buy U.S. steel for its projects....More
Have I mentioned the 2013 IndustryWeek Best Plants Awards competition? It's IndustryWeek's annual salute to North American manufacturing excellence, and I am the coordinator of the competition....More
Add online retailer Apple Pie to the growing list of organizations seeking to promote Made in the USA products.
The Seattle, Wash.-based retailer offers thousands of American products from kids' toys to clothing to dog treats....More
International Airlines Group, the owner of Iberia and British Airways, has reached an agreement with Boeing to buy 18 of its currently grounded 787 Dreamliners....More
The energy company aims to bring the pipeline online in late 2017, converting an existing 1,864-mile natural gas pipeline to crude oil service and constructing up to 870 miles of new pipeline....More
General Motors, Ford and Chrysler reported their best U.S. sales performances since 2007 Tuesday as analysts predicted the auto industry as a whole would also rack up its biggest month years....More
The Environmental Protection Agency's proposal would require a 60% reduction in sulfur in gasoline as well as stricter tailpipe emissions standards for cars and light trucks....More
Reverse logistics is as nuanced and complex a process as forward logistics, and can disrupt a manufacturer’s business just as easily. However, many of its leading issues can be resolved through savvy deployment of business software....More
"In 1997, I thought $20 was reasonable. In 2006, I though $27 was reasonable," Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi told reporters in Kuwait City on the sidelines of a Gulf oil conference....More
Slovak officials would welcome BMW, which is reportedly looking at opening a factory in eastern Europe where production costs are lower than in Germany....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
