SHELBY TOWNSHIP, MI—Systems integrator Fori Automation Inc. could add up to 50 jobs over the next five years, after completing a new, $1 million facility here. Fori has hired 54 employees since 2009.
ATLANTA—Atlanta is renaming Henry Ford II Avenue to Ferdinand Porsche Avenue after the German automaker began building its new North American headquarters here.
WASHINGTON—A new report finds that U.S. manufacturers are subject to 2,183 different federal regulations promulgated since 1981, and those regulations will decrease the nation’s GDP by as much as $630 billion this year.
KANSAS CITY, MO—Harley-Davidson Inc.’s assembly plant here is about halfway through a process to make it more flexible and efficient by employing lean manufacturing.
WASHINGTON—U.S. sales of machine tools totaled $470.4 million in August, an increase of 3 percent compared with July sales. All totaled, machine tools sales for the first eight months of the year are up 4 percent compared with the same period in 2011.
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned Zimmer Holdings Inc. about its practices for manufacturing and testing hip implants at an assembly plant in Puerto Rico.
ZHENGZHOU, China—Foxconn workers returned to the assembly line here after walking off their jobs Saturday. A dispute occurred between the production and quality teams at the factory, which makes the Apple iPhone 5.