In January, the World Economic Forum added 17 manufacturing facilities to its Global Lighthouse Network. Two of the new Lighthouse facilities are in the United States: the Novelis aluminum factory in Uhrichsville, OH, and Nucor Corp.’s steel mill in Sedalia, MO.

During the last 100 years, Caterpillar has grown and prospered by subscribing to a unique philosophy of vertical integration, globalization, lean production processes, high quality products and state-of-the-art metal fabrication technology.

Hikrobot smart cameras from Absolute Gauge Technologies are compact, all-in-one machine vision systems for image acquisition, processing, storage and communication.

A five-station rotary indexing system produces 350,000 assemblies annually.