However, there were 292,825 factories in the U.S. as of 2021. Of those, 846 employ 1,000 people or more. Some of these are my engineering firm’s clients, giving us a front row seat to the complexity ...

Manufacturing is getting a lot more attention in the news recently. While globalization has pushed the availability of goods around the world and lowered their cost in significant ways over these past ...

Eighty-six percent of manufacturing leaders believe the technologies they adopt today will be the main driver of competitiveness in the next five years. Yet, for many manufacturing leaders, navigating ...

Amid a drumbeat of factory closings and layoffs in Oregon, an international packaging giant has announced that Millersburg will be the site of a new manufacturing facility. Ball Corp.’s ...

Predictive maintenance can help manufacturers save on costs by spotting equipment issues early. Companies like Aquant and Gecko Robotics provide AI-powered tools that inform maintenance decisions.

For decades, Connecticut — and much of the United States — has wrestled with the thorny problem of how to rebuild its once vibrant manufacturing industries in the face of lower-cost competition from ...

Winton Machine, an Atlanta-based manufacturer, is desperate to hire. So far, there are few takers. CEO and cofounder Lisa Winton has been searching for a salesperson since March. A mechanist job has ...

Walk into a modern manufacturing facility today, and you’ll see something that looks nothing like the factories of decades past. You’ll see data dashboards, AI-driven monitoring systems, and highly ...

GRAND FORKS — Vicki Bellin is a fabrication manager at ContiTech USA in Wahpeton, North Dakota. A division of Continental, the company is a leading supplier of technical rubber products and a ...

Oversized crowbars bend wood for a piano’s rim. Circular sanders smooth rough edges on costly Sitka spruce soundboards. Hammers and chisels notch a bridge to allow piano strings to vibrate freely. For ...

The company's prototype, launched aboard a SpaceX rocket in the summer, is designed to test how the space environment can enhance material performance. In microgravity, semiconductor ...

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