Manufacturers' Monthly As we move into 2015, it is clear that manufacturers can’t just stick with their old ways. Technology-savvy, alert and agile businesses will come out ahead, Jo-Anne Ruhl reports.

Manufacturers' Monthly Last week – according to Google Analytics, anyway – our attention was turned back towards the automotive industry, with the falling dollar, a new factory and a ban on butane stoves also grabbing a lot of attention.

This course focuses the supporting elements of a gearbox that allow gears and bearings to do their jobs most efficiently. Learn about seals, lubrication, lubricants, housings, breathers, and other details that go into designing gearbox systems.

Industry Week Factory production edged up in February by 0.1 percent after a revised down 0.3 percent fall in January. The numbers still fell short of analysts’ 0.2 percent predicted rise.

Aerospace Manufacturing and Design Coldwater Machine Co. has joined the Edison Welding Institute (EWI), a North American engineering and technology advanced materials joining organization, and has installed one of its SpotMeld systems at EWI for research focused on the joining of advanced materials.

Rochester Business Journal Gleason Corp. has broken ground on a new manufacturing facility in Bangalore, India, to accommodate the company’s expanding product offerings and capabilities in that country.

Aerospace Manufacturing and Design Air Lease Corp. (ALC), the Los Angeles-based aircraft leasing company, has firmed up its order for 55 Airbus aircraft, comprising 25 A330-900neo and 30 A321LR.

Ferret For Australian manufacturing, most of the news in recent years has been negative. However, according to Mark Goodsell, there are still reasons to believe that the sector will survive.

Crain's Chicago Business Murray Energy Corp., the coal miner founded and run by outspoken industry champion Robert E. Murray, agreed to acquire control of a rival producer for $1.4 billion to add output in the U.S. Midwest and create one of the country's largest suppliers of the commodity.

Growing automotive production, housing construction and capital spending are positive indicators for gearing in the near term. But, our industry faces risks from uncertain government policies, a slowing energy sector and weak markets in Europe and Asia. The AGMA Marketing & Forecasting Conference will have a line-up of presenters to help make sense of these competing forces.

Wealth Management The Feb. 26 report on durable goods orders suggests near-term problems for the US manufacturing sector. However, virtually all that gain occurred in aircraft orders, and even those gains failed to fully reverse previous months' declines in aircraft orders.

Kansas City Business Journal Harley-Davidson Inc. layoffs in the Kansas City area aren't due to a desire to hire more seasonal workers, but instead because the company is outsourcing some work currently done in-house.

Canadian Manufacturing German industrial giant Siemens agreed to invest US$10.5 billion to build power plants in Egypt that will boost the country’s electricity generation capacity by 33 per cent.

Business Computing World By connecting multiple machines, a manufacturer can create an intelligent network of machines that can autonomously communicate and work in sync which significantly reduces the need for intervention by operators.

3D Printing Progress A 3-D printed jet engine, produced by Monash researchers, has been unveiled. Working with CSIRO and Deakin University, Professor Xinhua Wu, head of the Monash Centre for Additive Manufacturing (MCAM), is leading initiatives to develop 3D printing and put Australia at the forefront of the global aerospace industry.

Mining Global A recent National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) Industry Week survey of manufacturing executives reveals that 88.5 percent of manufacturers are optimistic about their company’s outlook in 2015.

The City Wire Central Arkansas will play host next month to a two-day, first-of-its-kind Arkansas Manufacturing Innovation Summit where companies across the state will be able to spotlight cutting edge manufacturing innovations and technologies, organizers say.

Today's Energy Solutions GE’s Chairman & CEO Jeffrey Immelt announced the new initiative at the Egypt Economic Development Conference to create 500 new jobs, provide localized solutions for customers, and deliver technical and leadership training.

The Wall Street Journal U.S. industrial production rose slightly in February, but a decline in manufacturing output offered the latest evidence the economy has softened.

MassLive MassMEP has graduated a new class in Advanced CNC Skills, part of the Applied Manufacturing Technology Pathway Certification.

Machine Design This week in New York City a group of women in manufacturing will gather at Innovation Enterprise's Women in Strategy Summit.

Plant Engineering Operations leaders at small and mid-sized manufacturing companies (SMBs) have no shortage of stress. Much of the burden of bringing in jobs on-time and on-budget falls on you, which explains the thirst for visibility and hawkish attention to detail regarding everything on the shop floor.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The nation’s manufacturers are looking to a gridlocked federal government for help on a host of issues affecting their competitiveness, National Association of Manufacturers president and CEO Jay Timmons said.