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
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
The switch to four 10-hour days instead of five eight-hour days means less overtime pay, a shifting schedule and the regular loss of Saturdays off....More
Boeing said there had been no fire inside the battery on either aircraft, and what appeared to the untrained eye to be smoke was electrolyte venting from the cells....More
The company said an investigation into the incidents in the United States and Japan had proved the aircraft's safety measures had kicked in properly....More
Increased air passenger traffic and demand for new aircraft are fueling an eco-friendly innovation drive by the aerospace industry as it prepares for the future....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
