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WEB2 days ago · Aug. 20, 2024. Process monitoring equipment manufacturer Endress+Hauser boosts talent acquisition through German-style apprenticeship programs that start with middle- and high-school-age students... IndustryWeek is the premier online source of news and information on manufacturing, leadership, …
2021 IW 50 Best US Manufacturers - IndustryWeek
WEBJul 29, 2021 · The annual IW 50 Best U.S. Manufacturers ranks the top-performing manufacturing companies in the United States, and is drawn from the IndustryWeek U.S. 500 our annual listing of the top 500 publicly held U.S. manufacturing companies, based on revenue. From there, we examine six additional measures over a three-year time frame. Those measures are inventory turns, profit margin, asset turnover ...
How Trade Policies Led to the Decline of American Manufacturing
WEBDec 7, 2017 · It doubled to $162.3 in 2002 and doubled again by 2014 to $344.8 billion. The 2016 trade deficit was $347 billion, down from $367 billion in 2015. In 2016, China represented 38% of our overall trade deficit of $654.5 billion. As a result of the escalated trade deficits from 2001 to 2010, the U.S. lost 5.8 million manufacturing jobs and 57,000 ...
Lithium Batteries' Dirty Secret: Manufacturing Them Leaves …
WEBOct 16, 2018 · Once in operation, electric cars certainly reduce your carbon footprint, but making the lithium-ion batteries could emit 74% more CO2 than for conventional cars. by Niclas Rolander, Jesper Starn and Elisabeth Behrmann. Beneath the hoods of millions of the clean electric cars rolling onto the world's roads in the next few years will be a dirty ...
Six Ways Technology Is Changing Engineering - IndustryWeek
WEBOct 23, 2018 · Annually, equipment makers budget more than $814 billion on R&D and engineering – a significant cost of operation. Adopting data-driven engineering could shave up to 10 percent off these budgets, with the savings likely to increase as transportation equipment becomes more digital, autonomous, and electric.
How Supply Chain Systems Integration Is a Game Changer
WEBJul 3, 2018 · Using consumer and company data helps identify threats and opportunities in the supply chain, so effective risk mitigation increases in both financial and physical supply chains. Additional sources of data, like social media, can be further integrated with systems to increase customer service levels. 3. Use blockchain technology.
Push vs. Pull Manufacturing: Is a Kanban Pull System
WEBJul 28, 2017 · There is a time and place for push manufacturing, especially when you manufacture complex, high variety products and tend to have a lot of work in progress (WIP). Push production environments tend to be characterized by long lead times and/or make to stock (MTS) situations. Processing large batches of …
The Skilled Labor Shortage Threatens Manufacturing Sector’s Fully ...
WEBJul 14, 2021 · The Skilled Labor Shortage Threatens Manufacturing's Full Recovery, Says Study. Before the pandemic, 38% of manufacturers had trouble finding candidates with the right skills and today that number is 54%, said The Workforce Institute at UKG. While more than half, 54%, of manufacturers have achieved …
Operations Managers: Rising to the Challenges of 2021
WEBJan 20, 2021 · Cost Management: This is an absolute basic, management’s bread and butter. Managers may face intense pressure in 2021 to further cut costs to ensure the survival of the organization. If possible, however, they should take time to consider which capabilities, skills, and production assets will be needed when the recession is over.
The Dynamic Supply Chain - IndustryWeek
WEBMar 7, 2012 · Known as the "dynamic supply chain," it enables businesses to balance opportunities to drive new economic value and growth against the downside risks of any disruptive events that might occur. Strengths Have Become Weaknesses. Most of our existing supply-chain strategies were conceived with the assumption of stability, and designed to plan ...
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