Focus on Data Is Key to Pull-Based Manufacturing
Technology that allows users a wide degree of management over resources, process, workforce, and customer information is critical to success.
View ArticleExpert’s Corner: Manufacturers Join Consortiums to Help Each Other After a...
Associations and business alliances like the Independent Carton Group (ICG) are helping manufacturers survive disasters through cooperation and continuity management plans.
View ArticleGlobal Companies in Midwestern U.S. More Successful than Their Peers
On average, the profit margins for industries that are highly engaged in international business are twice as large as their domestically oriented peers, according a study by the Economist Intelligence...
View ArticleWeekly Industry Crib Sheet: Industrial Building Construction Set for Tepid...
Plus: Third-Quarter GDP Up Despite Lack of Consumer Spending, Leading Economic Indicators Rise 0.7 Percent, Personal Income Rises as Consumers Remain Wary, and Drop in Jobless Claims Belies a Drearier...
View ArticleWeekly Industry Crib Sheet: Trade Deficit Spikes on Increased Purchases from...
Plus: Manufacturing Strong Despite Declines in Overall Industrial Production, New York Manufacturing Shrinks in November, and Jobless Claims Fall Less than Forecast.
View ArticleFABTECH Executive Roundtable Ponders Manufacturing’s Many Obstacles
At FABTECH 2013, a panel convened to summarize and analyze the many problems facing manufacturers today and discuss which are bad, which are worse, and which are illusions.
View ArticleNatural Gas Boom Spurs Demand for Chemical Tankers
The chemical and product tanker market, which had been in a slump recent years, is rebounding as a result of the boom in U.S. natural gas production. But long lead times for tanker manufacturing...
View ArticleWeekly Industry Crib Sheet: Autos and Aerospace to Boost Industrial Fastener...
Plus: Manufacturing Stalling in U.S. and Abroad, Philadelphia Fed Drops More than Expected, Price Producer Index Fell in October, and New Jobless Claims Continue to Dip.
View ArticleWeekly Industry Crib Sheet: ISM Manufacturing Index Hits Two-Year High
Plus: Transportation Orders Drag Down Durable Goods, Housing Starts Perk Up, Economic Indicators Inch Up, and Jobless Claims Fall Unexpectedly.
View ArticleWhat’s Behind the Well-Known Purchasing Managers Indexes
Purchasing Managers’ Indexes (PMIs) provide key economic indicators based on monthly surveys of purchasing and supply executives. However, the two most well-known PMIs do not always paint the same...
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