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The B61 bomb: A case study in costs and needs
Courtesy of the Washington Post. On the outskirts of New Mexico’s largest city, a team of engineers at Sandia National Laboratories is engaged in a long-running treasure hunt to make [...]
What the NFL and IMTS Have in Common
The NFL for 2012 began on Sunday and Monday. IMTS took the stage a short walk from the stadium where the Chicago Bears played the Colts. Both are big powerful [...]
Manufacturing in America – A Story of Global Competition
As the GE Working in America data visualization depicts, in 1960, manufacturing was the U.S. economy’s largest-employing sector, but today, it has fallen to sixth. What explains this historic decline in manufacturing [...]
Solving the Manufacturing Skills Gap
Courtesy of The Atlantic. Eighty percent of the manufacturing companies in the United States say they cannot find enough workers with the proper skills to fill open positions at their [...]
Romney vs. Obama
The election is two months away. Polling data, which has been remarkably accurate during the primaries, is showing a close popular vote, but the electoral map favors President Obama. A [...]
Does America Need Manufacturing?
Courtesy of NYTimes.com. You can drive almost anywhere in the state of Michigan — pick a point at random and start moving — and you will soon come upon the [...]
Obama order targets industrial efficiency, emissions
Courtesy of Reuters.com President Barack Obama issued an executive order on Thursday that would increase the number of cogeneration plants in the U.S. by 50 percent by 2020, a move [...]
Still Feeling the Pain
Today is the 4th anniversary of my heart attack. I wish I could forget it. I wish I could just cleanse my memory of that unbelievably scary day. But [...]
In Pursuit of Nissan, a Jobs Lesson for the Tech Industry?
Courtesy of The NY Times. SMYRNA, Tenn. — The dairy farms that once draped the countryside here were paved over so the Japanese carmaker Nissan could build its first American [...]