KANSAS CITY, MO-Ford will stop producing the Mercury brand by the end of this year. While Fords overall sales are up 23 percent, sales for the Mercury brand are down 10.7 percent. MORE
CLEARWATER BEACH, FL-Honda Motor Co. believes in investing in staff and expertise to tackle in-house automation projects. Such investment can produce big returns in the form of cost savings and a competitive edge. Can your company do the same? Find out this fall, when Cory Hauberg, division manager of Honda Engineering, speaks at the Assembly Summit Oct. 18-20 in Clearwater Beach, FL. MORE
SUMTER, SC-A bearings manufacturing plant here will add 75 jobs as it expands its operations. Kaydon Corp. is investing nearly $9 million the project. MORE
TAIPEI-Battling to stem a spate of factory suicides in China, Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn is raising the pay of its Chinese assembly line workers by 30 percent. MORE
CLEARWATER BEACH, FL-Some 70 percent of a product’s cost are locked in during the design stage-or are they? Phil Alvaro, an advanced manufacturing engineer at Harris Corp., can show you data-driven methods for reducing variation, mitigating risk and preventing faulty designs. Pick his brain at the Assembly Summit Oct. 18-20 in Clearwater Beach, FL. MORE
BEIJING-A strike at an enormous Honda transmission factory in southeastern China has suddenly and unexpectedly turned into a symbol of this nation’s struggle with income inequality, rising inflation and soaring property prices. MORE
CLEARWATER BEACH, FL-In today’s tough economy, manufacturing engineers need to find the most common energy-wasters in their factories-whether individual assembly machines or entire assembly lines-and make them more efficient. Find out how at the Assembly Summit Oct. 18-20 in Clearwater Beach, FL. MORE
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