Industry Focus Areas, Motorized Vehicle
May 16, 2017
Via: Automotive NewsFord Motor Co. is preparing major reductions to its worldwide workforce amid CEO Mark Fields’ renewed efforts to hike profits and address the company’s falling share price, The Wall Street Journal and Reuters reported, citing people briefed on the move. […]
May 15, 2017
Via: ReutersDesperate to overcome Japan’s growing shortage of labor, mid-sized companies are planning to buy robots and other equipment to automate a wide range of tasks, including manufacturing, earthmoving and hotel room service. According to a Bank of Japan survey, companies […]
May 12, 2017
Via: Industry WeekEmployers expect the Trump administration to “prioritize” easing workplace regulation, but they’re less confident in whether that change will actually happen, and if it does happen, whether it will affect them. A survey of 1,229 in-house corporate attorneys, HR professionals […]
Industry Focus Areas, Workforce Development
May 8, 2017
Via: Industry WeekMost of us like to think of ourselves as unbiased. We make a sincere effort to ensure that stereotypes and preconceived judgments do not play a role in our decision-making, especially when it comes to hiring and promotions. Yet, there […]
May 2, 2017
Via: Industry WeekKeurig Green Mountain, maker of the ubiquitous K-Cup coffees and coffeemakers, has its roots in Vermont, where everyone in town either knows each other, or knows each other once removed. It’s owned by a global private equity firm today—with 6,000 […]
Industry Focus Areas, Workforce Development
May 1, 2017
Via: Industry WeekIt’s considered a management best practice that every company should conduct an employee survey of its workforce at least once a year, but the UTC Aerospace Systems–Aerostructures plant, based in Foley, Ala., takes an “even better” best practice approach when […]
Industry Focus Areas, Workforce Development
April 21, 2017
Via: Industry WeekMany manufacturers are missing a critical talent pool, which could aid in closing the skills gap – women. A study, “Women in Manufacturing: Stepping up to make an impact that matters,” released on April 19 by The Manufacturing Institute, Deloitte […]
April 20, 2017
Via: Industry WeekFor anyone trying to figure out what President Donald Trump’s “Buy America” policy means for the domestic steel industry, take a ticket and line up. Trump on April 18 signed a “Buy American” order that included a reaffirmation of the […]
Aerospace & Defense, Industry Focus Areas
April 18, 2017
Via: Industry WeekBoeing Co. (IW 1000/29) plans to lay off hundreds of engineers in Washington state and other locations — and may eliminate more jobs later this year as the planemaker contends with slowing aircraft sales. The latest workforce reduction, which should […]
Industry Focus Areas, Workforce Development
April 17, 2017
Via: Industry WeekChicago has been a food and beverage manufacturing hub since the days when James Kraft delivered cheese by horse and buggy and the newborn National Biscuit Company went on a bakery-buying bender. In 1914, the city became “hog butcher to […]
Industry Focus Areas, Workforce Development
April 17, 2017
Via: Industry WeekEmployers are busy trying to come up with strategies to both retain and attract Millennial workers. As this group now surpasses Generation X as the largest share of the U.S. workforce, employers are trying to determine what values they must embrace […]
Industry Focus Areas, Motorized Vehicle, Workforce Development
April 14, 2017
Via: Industry WeekIf all goes as planned, by 2022, employees of Cruise Automation, General Motors’ autonomous technology subsidiary, will have a lot more co-workers to have an after-work beer with. On Thursday, GM announced it will invest $14 million in a research and development facility […]
Industry Focus Areas, Workforce Development
April 12, 2017
Via: Industry WeekWith thousands of “baby boomers” retiring in the next decade and few new employees getting into manufacturing, manufacturers are worried about their futures. The industry is dealing with a severe shortage of workers equipped with the knowledge and skills needed […]
Industry Focus Areas, Workforce Development
April 11, 2017
Via: Industry WeekSecretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross is reaching out to the manufacturing community as he explores the facets of his new job. In addressing his staff last month he pointed out that under the Trump administration the Department of Commerce, has […]
Industry Focus Areas, Workforce Development
April 5, 2017
Via: Industry WeekThere is a common lean phrase, “Bad systems beat good people.” Sometimes it is attributed to Dr. W. Edwards Deming although it isn’t actually his quote. I’ve used it for 20 years but couldn’t tell you if I heard it […]
Aerospace & Defense, Industry Focus Areas, Workforce Development
April 5, 2017
Via: Industry WeekBoeing Co. landed its second jetliner sale to an Iranian airline since the 1970s, a $3 billion deal that sets up a test of the planemaker’s ties with President Donald Trump. The pact with Iran Aseman Airlines to purchase 30 […]
Industry Focus Areas, Regulations, Workforce Development
March 28, 2017
Via: Industry WeekPresident Donald Trump is taking bold steps to boost the declining coal industry, but the moves won’t restore many of the jobs lost by coal miners in West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania who helped the president win his job in […]
Industry Focus Areas, Workforce Development
March 24, 2017
Via: Industry WeekThe lack of diversity in the tech industry is pretty well understood by now — by everyone except those who work there, it would seem. According to a recent survey of 1,400 tech employees, 94% of American tech workers give the industry, their […]
March 23, 2017
Via: Manufacturing Innovation BlogIn early 2016, the International Organization of Standardization (ISO) published ISO Technical Specification (TS) 15066, which outlines safety requirements for collaborative robots. The American National Standards Institute, ANSI, adopted ISO/TS 15066 later that year as ANSI/RIA Technical Report R15.606 (RIA […]
Industry Focus Areas, Workforce Development
March 22, 2017
Via: the Alliance for American ManufacturingBut President Trump’s budget proposal would cut such programs. German Chancellor Angela Merkel came to Washington on Friday to meet with President Donald Trump for the first time. You probably already know how it went. Yeah. It was awkward. While […]