General Motors is selling its unprofitable European car business to the French maker of Peugeot, marking the American company's retreat from a major market and raising concerns of job cuts in the region.

Manufacturing activity continued to accelerate, rising to multiyear highs and buoyed by expectations that demand and output will benefit from possible pro-growth policies emanating from Washington.

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. 

A battle of industrial titans is shaping up as the Android-versus-iOS of manufacturing. Germany’s Siemens AG and larger U.S. rival General Electric Co. are duking it out to develop the definitive "Internet of Things" cloud platform for industry.

Skill UP Indiana!, a unique manufacturing program allowing students to learn while they earn money, began classes this week. The program is a collaboration of local industry, community, education and business partners in the newly created Southwest Indiana Workforce Coalition (SWIWC).

Worldwide manufacturing business conditions showed the largest improvement for more than five-and-a-half years in February, with global trade expanding at the fastest rate for just under six years and optimism about the future continuing to improve. Manufacturing input prices meanwhile continued to rise markedly, albeit with the rate of increase easing slightly during the month.

Like nearly every automaker, Ford is keen to figure out how 3D printing can improve its ability to develop and build new cars. Additive manufacturing holds the promise of shorter lead times, increased customization and lighter weight parts, among other efficiencies. Unsurprisingly, there's a lot of blue-sky thinking out there, and still not a ton of actionable data. But that's changing, including at the Ford Motor Company, which has an impressive new tool in its arsenal, the Stratasys Infinite Build 3D Printer.

Exxon Mobil Corporation is expanding its manufacturing capacity along the U.S. Gulf Coast through planned investments of $20 billion over a 10-year period to take advantage of the American energy revolution, Darren Woods, chairman and chief executive officer, said this week.

A new company wants to play matchmaker between skilled manufacturing workers and the businesses seeking to hire them—just not full time. At FactoryFix, employers can browse profiles for engineers, machinists, maintenance technicians, welders and others, then contact likely candidates. Founder and CEO Patrick O'Rahilly, noting that workers are vetted before joining the company's network, jokes it's "like a dating website if you only let beautiful people in." 

As Northeast Ohio seeks to position itself as a hub of 3D printing technology, Cuyahoga Falls-based Ultra Tech Machinery and Columbus-based Fabrisonic may have just made a major advancement—the ability to combine additive manufacturing and traditional CNC machining into a single piece of equipment.

The Industrial Internet Consortium this week published a guide to help connect systems and components to the Industrial Internet of Things. The consortium, which includes dozens of prominent tech and industrial companies, announced that the Industrial Internet Connectivity Framework would map the IoT landscape and harmonize industry standards and otherwise complex proprietary technologies.

Honeywell and Seeq have announced that they will collaborate as part of the Honeywell Connected Plant initiative to help process manufacturers leverage data and insights in their operations.This joint development agreement is intended to help customers minimize unplanned shutdowns, maximize output, minimize safety risk and optimize supply chain strategies.

PTC and GE Digital are expanding their strategic alliance to bring integrated solutions to the industrial Internet of Things market. The companies will develop a suite of PTC ThingWorx applications for GE’s Predix industrial internet operating system and jointly market the combined technologies.

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is creating huge opportunities in the water and wastewater industries, adding value to both the utility and the consumer. Connected machines are reshaping the way these utilities operate, allowing them to make smarter and more informed decisions. By driving up innovation, water utilities are driving down cost. Here’s what they’re up to.

Federal authorities on Thursday searched the corporate offices of the world's largest construction equipment manufacturer after years of controversy surrounding its accounting practices.

Gain a solid and fundamental understanding of gear geometry, types and arrangements, and design principles. Starting with the basic definitions of gears, conjugate motion and the Laws of Gearing, learn the tools needed to understand the inter‐relation and coordinated motion operating within gear pairs and multi‐gear trains. Basic gear system design process and gear measurement and inspection techniques will also be explained. In addition, the fundamentals of understanding the step‐wise process of working through the iterative design process required to generate a gear pair will be reviewed. Learn the steps and issues involved in design refinement and some manufacturing considerations. An explanation of basic gear measurement techniques, how measurement equipment and test machines implement these techniques, and how to interpret the results from these basic measurements will also be covered.

In a major overhaul of the country's manufacturing strategy, the Indian government is devising a National Master Plan for manufacturing clusters. The government will also assess big projects, including the Sagarmala Project, and upcoming industrial corridors to ensure they are in sync with this master plan being worked out. 

Britain's factories are growing at their fastest pace in more than three years, helped by the fall in the value of the pound after the Brexit vote and a recovery in core markets in Europe, a survey showed on Monday. The survey, by manufacturing lobby group EEF and consultancy BDO, added to signs that British factories are enjoying a growth spurt, something that Brexit supporters said would be one of the early benefits of leaving the European Union.