Category: Production

September 12, 2023

Other suppliers are expected to follow suit and increase their production cutbacks in Q4 to accelerate inventory reduction. Consequently, Q4 NAND Flash average prices are projected to either hold firm or witness a mild surge, possibly in the ballpark of […]

August 11, 2023

The food and beverage industry has been facing unprecedented change over the past several years due to shifting consumer demands driven by increased pressure from large-scale competitors and direct-to-consumer trends. In fact, 88% of meals and snacks are being consumed […]

July 21, 2023

”We are encountering certain challenges, as there is an insufficient amount of skilled workers with a specialised expertise required for equipment, installation in a semiconductor-grade facility,“ said Liu, “while we are working to improve the situation, including sending experience technicians […]

July 17, 2023

Almost four years after Elon Musk first unveiled Tesla Inc.’s debut pickup, the automaker has built its first Cybertruck. Tesla shared the development on Twitter, posting a photo of workers in safety vests and helmets obscuring much of the vehicle. […]

May 30, 2023

GH200-powered systems join more than 400 system configurations powered by different combinations of NVIDIA’s CPU, GPU and DPU architectures — including Grace, Hopper, Ada Lovelace and BlueField. At COMPUTEX, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang revealed new systems, partners and […]

May 16, 2023

Production at U.S. factories rebounded in April, led by a firm advance at automakers and suggesting some stabilization in goods demand. Manufacturing output rose 1% last month after downward revisions to the prior two months, Federal Reserve data showed May […]

May 12, 2023

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503), a global leader in factory automation solutions, today announced a strategic investment in Clearpath Robotics, the parent company of autonomous mobile robot leader, OTTO Motors. With more than 4 million hours of production experience, OTTO […]

May 10, 2023

Leading packaging and robotic automation company, RMGroup, recently installed an automated pouch line at US-based Buckman’s Inc., one of the largest suppliers and distributors of swimming pool chemicals, water treatment chemicals and ice melt products in the Eastern US. The […]

April 21, 2023

The Montana-based clothing company Duckworth produces the most luxurious wool-layered outdoors garments in America, if not the world. Duckworth bills itself as the only 100 percent, American-made wool manufacturer in the United States, and is popular among folks who prefer […]

April 4, 2023

H2 Green Steel and global leading mining company Anglo American have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together on low carbon steelmaking value chains. The companies will study and trial the use of premium-quality iron ore products from Anglo […]

March 22, 2023

The automotive industry has the largest number of robots working in factories around the world: Operational stock hit a new record of about one million units. This represents about one third of the total number installed across all industries, according […]

March 1, 2023

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) revealed the 86 U.S. manufacturing plants to earn the agency’s ENERGY STAR certification in 2022, a designation reserved for manufacturing plants in the top 25% of energy efficiency in their sector. Together, these plants […]

February 27, 2023

Kansas generated nearly $7.5 billion in capital investments last year. Contributing to that number was Panasonic, which announced a $4 billion electric vehicle battery manufacturing plant in De Soto in November 2022. “My administration has made Kansas a state where […]

February 15, 2023

Li-Bridge, a public-private alliance representing the U.S. battery ecosystem, convened by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and managed by Argonne National Laboratory, released today an action plan to accelerate the creation of a robust domestic manufacturing base and comprehensive […]

February 13, 2023

Ford announced today it will invest $3.5 billion to build the country’s first automaker-backed lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery plant in Michigan, which will add a second battery technology to Ford’s electric vehicle (EV) lineup. The plant – dubbed BlueOval […]

January 30, 2023

Memory-chip prices, which dropped steeply over the past year, are expected to keep falling in the first half of 2023, putting more pressure on an industry that has already cut investments and jobs. Average prices for the two main types […]

January 25, 2023

The South China Morning Post has reported that China has published a new ‘Robot +’ Application Action Plan laying out 10 industries where it wants to use more robots, as the country rushes to automate sectors from manufacturing to agriculture […]

January 24, 2023

Iprobably don’t need to remind readers of this blog that the conventional wisdom for decades from much of the American elite was that offshoring U.S. production was totally the way to go. The thinking went that as long as the […]

January 19, 2023

‘Origami’ is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. The goal of origami is to transform a flat sheet of paper into a finished sculpture using intricate and strategic folds. But paper isn’t the only material that can be used […]

December 29, 2022

Covid-19 issues in China are still hampering manufacturing of Apple Inc.’s AAPL 3.14%increase; green up pointing triangle iPhone, but production is beginning to catch up to demand for the more-expensive Pro models, according to analysts and people involved in the […]