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• Wake Up Call
  on Aug 13, 2014
  Study results recently released by the National Bureau of Economic Research indicate the source of an innovative idea matters.  Authors of The Acquisition and Commercialization of Invention in American Manufacturing: Incidence & Impact1 indi...
• A Tale of Two Companies...
  on Aug 13, 2014
  Early last year, two studies brought us face to face with Petrobras and PEMEX.   Both market opportunity projects were commissioned by global OEMs interested in selling product into the oil & gas industry.  In Brazil, we green-ligh...
• Re-shoring Advanced Manufacturing
  on Aug 13, 2014
  Featured speaker William L. Strang, senior vice president of operations, TOTO USA told a crowd at MODEX in Atlanta that TOTO has substantially moved manufacturing of products destined for the US market from Asia to the US. “Seventy percent of the p...
• No Good Secrets
  on Aug 15, 2010 in manufacturing business intelligence
  The dawn of the intelligent enterprise has changed manufacturing forever. The ability of the c-suite to have real-time visibility into the enterprise from financial, operations, supply chain, workforce, and sales perspectives has moved from nice-to-h...
• Tapping Into Innovation
  on Aug 8, 2010
  Two years ago, we were tasked with finding out whether corporations were building purpose-built nano research facilities at the same pace as universities were. Dozens of calls were made to corporations, thought leaders, equipment suppliers, architect...
• “When a man is healthy, he has many dreams. When he is sick, he has but one.”
  on Aug 5, 2010
  True regardless of socioeconomic status or geographic location. GE, Siemens, and Philips manufacture world-class diagnostic equipment. But one, GE Healthcare, has focused on delivering diagnostic solutions to people at the top and at the bottom of th...
• Manufacturers Deserve a Coherent Energy Policy
  on Jul 27, 2010
  Allan Sloan, in A Good Energy A Good Energy Strategy Doesn’t Fit in a Slogan (Washington Post, July 13, 2010), states “So now, you ask, since I don't believe in a magic solution, what should we do? It's easy, though not politically palatable. You...
• American Ingenuity
  on Jul 27, 2010
  The smartest guys in the room, former Ford Motor Company executives and a team of first responders, asked a simple question: why hasn’t anyone developed a purpose-built vehicle for law enforcement? A passenger vehicle like the Crown Victoria is dra...
• Just in from NAM/IndustryWeek
  on Jul 27, 2010 in industry manufacturing growth
  According to the NAM/IndustryWeek Manufacturing Index — 2nd Quarter 2010, published by the National Association of Manufacturers and IndustryWeek, 74% of manufacturers were optimistic about future prospects in 2Q 2010: a sharp contrast from the 28%...

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