Industry Week discusses innovation and manufacturing technologies in a recent article. The article talks about how over the pas 20 years manufacturing has gone through many changes including advances in materials, controls, communications, electronics and software. All of these changes have helped l...

As many of you may know, reliability engineering and PdM are a huge part of the manufacturing industry. Unfortunately the economy has hit manufacturing industry hard recently and jobs have started to decline. A new bill proposed by Senator Sherrod Brown (Ohio) is aimed at helping the manufacturing ...

...reign workforce levels the same despite the economic downfall. Another 35% of the respondents say they will decrease their number of expatriates. The manufacturing industry is the largest industry response group (accounting for 29% of the respondents) in the survey. So if manufacturing companies are...

... strengths of any known metallic material; exceptional magnetism; wear/corrosion resistance; and a large ability to store elastic energy. The ease of manufacturing these metals is what is so extraordinary. They soften gradually when heated and don’t shrink during solidification like other metals. Th...

...cle suggests) or more of a recognition that people have got to eat and pay the rent. Unfortunately, the article does not discuss what has happened to manufacturing related jobs in May, although if the news about Chrysler and General Motors are an indication of manufacturing health, I’m assumin...

... from baby-boomer retirements over the next five years, reports Advanced Technology Services Inc. in its latest benchmark study. More than 100 senior manufacturing executives surveyed say if 40%, as forecasted by industry experts, of their skilled labor force were to retire by 2013 they would each l...

Not many people understand the need for the stimulus package more than the people in the manufacturing industry. People like a reliability engineer that rely on the manufacturing industry for projects, are starting to wonder when the stimulus package will kick in. Although Vice President Joe Biden s...

...or the predictive maintenance industry. But then I realized that jobs are out there, if you know where to look. With the economy starting to rebound, manufacturing companies are starting to hire people. And with the manufacturing industry starting to produce goods again, the need for reliability and...

With the future of the economy still up in the air, more and more people are finding themselves back on the job market, unfortunately there are fewer jobs available. The manufacturing industry is just one industry that is being hit hard in the United States. The decrease in manufacturing plants effe...

...t regard, I’ve been fortunate enough to watch the industry grow up and evolve into a very exciting and critical component of our nation’s manufacturing and processing industries success.  In as much as we’ve seen significant job losses to these sectors over the years, I shudder to ...