Archive for July, 2008

AWEA announces 2008 awards

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

AWEA announces 2008 awards. They have sponsored two regional studies supporting the central location for manufacturing in the heart of the Midwest. In the past two years, they have convinced at least five major companies (including Clipper Wind, Siemens, TPI Composites, and Hendricks Industries) to install manufacturing facilities in the state. ...

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Tools for Assessing the Responsiveness of Existing Production Operations Tools for Assessing the Responsiveness of Existing Production Operations <i>Responsiveness in Manufacturing (Digest No. 1998/213), IEE (1998), pp. 8/1-8/6.</i>

Local economic challenges debated

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Local economic challenges debated. But Steve Maselli, president of Old Adirondack, said overseas manufacturing tenders the real challenge to economics here. Moved from Keeseville over a decade ago, Maselli said he was able to expand a failing plant into the 100-acre industrial complex in Willsboro with a permit that took ...

DELPHI: Laid-off workers to get callbacks

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Taiichi Ohno's Workplace Management (Hardcover) newly tagged "manufacturing" Taiichi Ohno's Workplace Management (Hardcover) newly tagged "manufacturing" <div class="hreview"> <div class="item"> <div style="float:left;" class="tgRssImage"><a class="url" href="http://www.amazon.com/Taiichi-Ohnos-Workplace-Management-Ohno/dp/0978638751/ref=tag_rsn_rs_edpp_url?ie=UTF8&tag=dutoitenterpr-20&creative=381421"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EzaJPnw-L._SL160_SS160_.jpg" width="160" alt="Taiichi Ohno&#39;s Workplace Management" class="photo" height="160" border="0" /></a></div> <span class="tgRssTitle fn summary">Taiichi Ohno's Workplace ...

Tata Motors re-jigging manufacturing facilities

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Tata Motors re-jigging manufacturing facilities. Pune, May 26 The country"s leading vehicle manufacturer Tata Motors is in the process of re-organising its manufacturing facilities for commercial vehicles, and over time, intends to create hubs for a particular category of vehicle at each of its various production units. Towards this goal it ...

Agilent Technologies” New MXG ATE Signal Generators Target

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Agilent Technologies" New MXG ATE Signal Generators Target. Such enhancements make the MXG RF signal generators the ideal solutions for R&D and manufacturing engineers defining, developing, and optimizing wireless network and mobile communications test systems. New MXG ATE RF Signal Generators The MXG ATE RF signal generators provide the same industry-leading ...

TFI: Customer”s Risk is Contract Manufacturer”s Risk? We Don”t

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

TFI: Customer"s Risk is Contract Manufacturer"s Risk? We Don"t. A contract-manufacturer client wrote to us recently about how unfair it is for medical-electronics customers to expect their electronics manufacturing services suppliers to take on significant risk when the medical product fails while in use. He wrote, 'We are continually ...

General Motors COO says US auto industry is in a recession

Monday, July 21st, 2008

General Motors COO says US auto industry is in a recession. Henderson said the 11-week strike at parts supplier American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings Inc. has had only a minimal effect on the company"s retail sales, largely because it had built up a large inventory of pickup trucks and sport utility ...

TCT 2008 Rapid Manufacturing Conference Programme Announced

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

TCT 2008 Rapid Manufacturing Conference Programme Announced. The organisers of TCT 2008 are pleased to announce the programme for the TCT Rapid Manufacturing (RM) Conference, taking place on 21st & 22nd October at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry, UK. TCT is widely recognised as the global meeting place for discussions on ...

KC Fed district manufacturing slows

Friday, July 18th, 2008

KC Fed district manufacturing slows. Manufacturing activity in the 10th Federal Reserve District was sluggish in May, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City reported Thursday. The percentage of surveyed companies reporting production increases in May fell to 0 from 7 in April. Most other month-to-month indexes also decreased ...