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How a Small Town in Missouri Became a Manufacturing Oasis
Article courtesy of Forbes.com. Editor’s Note: This post is part of a new special section called “Reinventing America.” Ken Sweet and more than a dozen other Forbes contributors and staff writers are [...]
Your Next Machine
The dilemma of the lonely machine tool dealer is the common denominator of most businesses and occupations. The clients want to buy something tailored to their needs. The seller wants [...]
Walmart Has America’s Largest Solar Panel Install Base
Courtesy of Slate. Ehren Goosens in BusinessWeek writes about how Walmart became America’s biggest user of solar power. As Marty Gilbert, the company’s director of energy, explains the firm’s enormous size gives it advantages [...]
GM Marketing Chief Resigns As CEO Rebuilds In Slump
Courtesy of Bloomberg. General Motors Co. (GM) Chief Marketing Officer Joel Ewanick resigned because he didn’t “meet the company’s expectations of an employee,” according to an e- mailed statement by the automaker yesterday. [...]
Emotional Robots, IMTS (again), and Obnoxious People
Are you worried about robots? I wasn’t until I saw the video of a robot built in Pisa, Italy, that could show emotion by change in mechanical facial muscles. The [...]
Can the U.S. handle a manufacturing comeback?
CNNMoney – For years, U.S. manufacturers worried about business being sent overseas. Now, as signs point to a resurgence of American-made goods, a new fear is emerging: that there won’t [...]
Motoring News from Around the Web
Courtesy of The New York Times. General Motors announced on Monday that Tim Lee, who oversees the conglomerate’s operations for international markets, would become vice president of global manufacturing. The [...]
A Review of R. A. Dickey’s Wherever I Wind Up
R. A. Dickey’s story is an inspiration that great books and movies are made of — a person from humble beginnings in the pursuit of perfection. For those living under [...]
The Man At Penn State
I’ve read a lot about the terrible tragedy of the boys abused by Jerry Sandusky at Penn State and the cover-up that went up to Joe Paterno and Graham Spanier, [...]
Airbus Explores Building Planes With Giant 3D Printers
Article courtesy of www.forbes.com. We already know that 3D-printing has revolutionized the way we can make everyday objects from Lego pieces, to guitars, and from car bodies to artificial livers. But the scale of this [...]