Switching from hand marking its flat and rotary mounted equipment tags to an automated marking and identification system has allowed Hy-Tech Machine Co. (Cranberry Township, PA) to increase its productivity by 15 percent.
The Panoz AIV Roadster is 70 percent aluminum and has a curb weight of 2,600 pounds. It is hand-built by the Panoz Auto Development Co. (Hoschton, GA) and is the first aluminum-intensive vehicle manu-factured in the United States. Only 200 are built each year.
The survival and continuing prosperity of manufacturing companies is fundamentally essential to maintaining the way of life in the United States, Japan and virtually every developed nation. The survival of manufacturing companies depends, in turn, on the manufacturing workforce.
Benchmarking usually leads to mediocrity, but there are Arial when comparing one firm to another can be very revealing. This example illustrates a very common syndrome.
Green manufacturing processes are not just a way to protect the environment. They can be a competitive weapon, says Arpad Horvath, Ph.D., director of the Consortium on Green Design and Manufacturing at the University of California at Berkeley.
For over 40 years, Ray Jacobson's sculptures have appeared in galleries and are often commissioned by architects, civic organizations and private individuals.
For almost 100 years following Thomas Edison's first recording, not much changed in audio technology. Then high fidelity, stereo, 8-track and cassettes, compact disks and digital audio tape emerged.
Increasingly, responsibility for automotive assembly and quality is being pushed down the supply chain, and parts suppliers with little or no assembly experience must often become assembly experts.
When Porsche AG (Stuttgart, Germany) was planning and designing its new engine assembly plant, the company initially counted on the skills of its own internal production machinery department. This department, however, had to compete with external offers.