Rosneft signed Wednesday an agreement with ExxonMobil giving the U.S. super-major access to seven Arctic fields in exchange for the Russian firm's possible participation in a lucrative Alaskan gas project....More
Dell said Monday its proposed $24.4 billion private equity buyout plan is "in the best interests of stockholders," brushing aside criticism from a key investor that it undervalues the tech giant....More
NEW YORK - U.S. hedge fund Greenlight Capital filed suit against Apple (IW 500/9) Thursday as part of efforts to compel the tech giant to give shareholders more of its huge cash stockpile.
Apple responded by saying it has been "in active discussions about returning additional cash to shareholders."...More
A U.S. judge refused to toss out a verdict ordering Samsung to pay $1 billion to Apple for patent infringement, but reversed a finding of "willful" violations that could have tripled the award....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
To picture the flow of parts, products and people in Warren Rupp's Mansfield, Ohio, factory prior to spring 2011, former operational excellence manager Marty Carty uses this analogy: "Just think of a mouse trying to find its cheese in a maze."...More
Lockheed Martin says the success of its Pike County Operations is due in large part to an engaged workforce. "People make it happen here," says David Anderson, site director....More
Take a tour of La-Z-Boy's Dayton, Tenn., facility with Continuous Improvement Manager David Robinson and be prepared for a bit of temporal distortion. For as proud as Robinson is of the facility's current operations, his heart belongs to its "future state."...More
As workers file in through the hallway overlooking the plant floor at Harris Product Group's Mason, Ohio, facility, they are privy to an endless array of data....More
In an industry that has been plagued by product recalls, the medical devices built at Ethicon San Lorenzo, a Johnson & Johnson company based in Puerto Rico, stand apart. In the plant's 24-year history, there has never been a product recall....More
For the 23rd consecutive year, IndustryWeek is pleased to present its annual salute to manufacturing excellence. The 2012 class of IndustryWeek's Best Plants winners demonstrates that operational excellence continues to prosper in manufacturing -- and manufacturers continue to strive for even greater performances....More
Too little water, and then too much. That's a very abbreviated description of the conditions in the United States that tugged at Briggs & Stratton (IW 500/350) in 2012. For the outdoor power equipment company, drought and then flooding had very different results....More
Denso said the investment -- of which $750 million and 1,200 will go to U.S. operations -- comes as automakers are looking to their suppliers for help meeting tough new fuel economy standards and will allow Denso to expand its customer base....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
