Machinery is American Manufacturing’s Future
Ricardo Hausmann, director of Harvard’s Center for International, is an economist who helps countries understand what’s next for their export industries. Using complexity theory and trade data,...
View ArticleFuture of Manufacturing Based on Flexibility
Research at the University of Nottingham’s Institute for Advanced Manufacturing, under two five-year research grants from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is looking at...
View ArticleIndustrial Machinery will Drive Trade Growth
According to the latest HSBC Commercial Banking Trade Forecast, Industrial machinery is expected to be the top driver of U.S. export and import trade now and in the next decade. Exports of industrial...
View ArticleThe Seven Wastes – Part 1: Overproduction
The “Seven Wastes” is a key concept in lean manufacturing. First identified by Toyota’s Taiichi Ohno, the seven wastes include most of what value stream mapping reveals as non-value-adding activities....
View ArticleEquipment Market Looking Up
A March 2013 report from the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation projects that investment in equipment and software in the U.S. is expected to grow 5.6 percent in 2013. This is an increase from...
View ArticleThe Seven Wastes – Part 6: Motion
The “Seven Wastes” is a key concept in lean manufacturing. First identified by Toyota’s Taiichi Ohno, the seven wastes include most of what value stream mapping reveals as non-value-adding activities....
View ArticleThe Seven Wastes – Part 7: Defects
The “Seven Wastes” is a key concept in lean manufacturing. First identified by Toyota’s Taiichi Ohno, the seven wastes include most of what value stream mapping reveals as non-value-adding activities....
View ArticleMachine Tool Orders Up Sharply
Industry week reported that the monthly U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders report, compiled by AMT – The Association for Manufacturing Technology, has very good news for the industrial equipment...
View ArticleFour Manufacturing Myths; Part 3
The Washington Post published an opinion piece on April 30, 2013, written by two Kinsey & Company directors, under the title “Dispelling myths about manufacturing”. The myths concern low cost / low...
View ArticleU.S. May Reach Cost Parity With China in 2015
According to the latest survey by AlixPartners, LLP, the U.S. is already equal to Mexico in “attractiveness” as a place to make product that was previously sourced in China. In terms of hard numbers,...
View ArticleVariation
It is an accepted “fact” that variability is bad for manufacturers and manufacturing. And it happens to be the truth – and not a myth or mere folklore. Variation is the source of quality issues and the...
View ArticleIndustrial Machinery Will Drive Trade Growth
Over the next three years, manufacturers plan to use increase their use of service as a competitive differentiator and aim to grow business through product service innovation and value-added services...
View ArticleManaging Parts
Equipment manufacturers have struggled with how to manage inventories that have two distinct sources of demand – as components for manufacturing and as replacement parts for sale to customers....
View ArticleConsider Remanufacturing
The Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP) group, has identified remanufacturing as an emerging technology in manufacturing that is likely to produce major industry changes in the coming months and...
View ArticleEquipment Market Looking Up
A March 2013 report from the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation projects that investment in equipment and software in the U.S. is expected to grow 5.6 percent in 2013. This is an increase from...
View ArticleThe Seven Wastes – Part 6: Motion
The “Seven Wastes” is a key concept in lean manufacturing. First identified by Toyota’s Taiichi Ohno, the seven wastes include most of what value stream mapping reveals as non-value-adding activities....
View ArticleThe Seven Wastes – Part 7: Defects
The “Seven Wastes” is a key concept in lean manufacturing. First identified by Toyota’s Taiichi Ohno, the seven wastes include most of what value stream mapping reveals as non-value-adding activities....
View ArticleMachine Tool Orders Up Sharply
Industry week reported that the monthly U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders report, compiled by AMT – The Association for Manufacturing Technology, has very good news for the industrial equipment...
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