Shaw Industries' remote worker policy is just one small piece of the company's more comprehensive recruiting effort. "What we are trying to do is fill positions with the right talent in order to meet business goals and objectives, and meet our customers' expectations. We want to be the organization of choice," -- and not just for the short term....More
Research says that workers who enjoy regular breaks -- including frequent vacations -- produce better results and stay with their employers longer. Shouldn't manufacturers enjoy the same benefits?...More
Slovakia and U.S. Steel clinched a deal ensuring the steelmaker would keep its mill in the eastern industrial hub of Kosice for at least five years....More
The average base salary breached $100,000 in the 2013 IndustryWeek Salary Survey, and pay raises were the norm, not the exception. This slideshow accompanies "Salaries Remain Upward Bound," IW's March 2013 article on manufacturing management salaries.
It is all about forward momentum when it comes to salaries and pay raises for manufacturing management, according to the 2013 IndustryWeek Salary Survey. Or perhaps the better description is "upward momentum."...More
The announcement -- one of the group's largest talent recruitment drives in Taiwan in recent years -- comes as the conglomerate is slowing new hiring at its sprawling factories in China....More
The largest U.S. automaker said it expects to hire more than 4,000 new information technology workers over the next three to five years to staff centers in Arizona, Texas, Georgia and Michigan....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
