General Motors' decision to pull out of Australia, New Zealand and Thailand as part of a strategy to exit markets that don’t produce adequate returns on investments raised dismay Monday from officials concerned over job losses.

Parts that will be used to build Boeing Co’s 1,000 787 took to the skies last week, when Japan-based Mitsubishi Heavy Industries shipped off its composite-material wing boxes for the milestone aircraft.

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BWX Technologies, Inc. announced that the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion program has awarded subsidiary BWXT Nuclear Operations Group, Inc. new contracts with options totaling approximately $1 billion for the manufacture of naval nuclear reactor components.

Precision Engineering, Inc. in Uxbridge sees itself as a micro-factory, one that relishes the chance to compete against Fortune 500 companies. The 32-year-old fabricator makes intricate parts out of sheet metal for machines and stystems people rely on every day. Precision says it simply needs the specifications for the part – whether for a plane, a military radar, airport’s security system or a building’s elevator – and its plant can make it, guaranteeing quality and timely delivery.

As augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) technologies come of age, manufacturers are finding ways to adopt these technologies on a variety of fronts, including product development, training, maintenance, repair and worker safety. Flex, a $25 billion electronics design and manufacturing services (EMS) provider, envisions expanding that universe even further.

Picture a factory. Employees toil at lines, doing the same task, repeatedly, in order to assemble a final product. A line stoppage or bottleneck can cost a fortune. So too can even the smallest of errors by any of the people tasked with detailed assembly work. What if the manufacturer could see what was going on, in real time, and fix any issues before they become real problems?

As investors watch closely to see how quickly China can get its more than one billion workers back on the job amid the continuing coronavirus outbreak, a new survey reveals just how tough a task that may be. According to a mini survey by the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, 78 percent of companies say they don’t have enough staff to run a full production line.

Susanne Kinzenbau Veatch is the president of Kinze Manufacturing headquartered in Williamsburg, Iowa. As the daughter of founder, CEO, and chairman of the board Jon Kinzenbaw, she has fond memories growing up in the company.

From asset tracking and automation to predictive maintenance and improved security, the industrial Internet of Things (IoT) is proving more and more impactful across a wide spectrum of use cases.

U.S.-based composite and metal 3D printer provider Markforged has released a pure copper material option for use with the Metal X 3D printer. By enabling copper 3D printing on the Metal X system, already compatible with a number of metal materials, Markforged aims to drive new manufacturing and supply chain efficiencies for customers.

Dr. Joe Beaman, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Texas, worked with the late Carl Deckard to develop Selective Laser Sintering in the 1980s.

Robotic metal printing startup AML3D is vying to be the latest 3D printing stock to hit the ASX boards, though its chief executive says despite enthusiasm about the sector, growth will take patience.

This paper is intended to give a review on the statistical reliability behavior of cylindrical gears with regard to pitting and tooth root breakage failures.

Intergranular fracture and fatigue fracture surfaces among mechanisms of failure that are observed in actual parts.

AGMA and ABMA have teamed up with Faegre Drinker Biddle & REath LLP to provide a series of eight webinars focused on the important trade issues the bearing and gear manufacturing industries are currently facing. The succinct and timely updates provided by the experts will also contain practical tips on how to manage related risks while taking advantage of the opportunities they present.

Robots are no strangers to the automobile manufacturing industry, given that it is one of the most highly automated supply chains in the world. Ever since General Motors pioneered the use of robotic systems in car manufacturing back in 1961, the remit of deploying industrial robots has veritably expanded over the years. The latest advanced robotic applications in the sector for tasks beyond welding and painting are bringing in a seamless interaction between humans, AI and robots.

Blue Origin, the rocket company started and led by Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, opened a new rocket engine manufacturing plant in Huntsville giving it a production facility for the future and the city a new claim on its nickname of Rocket City.

Automakers working to restart manufacturing in China amid the coronavirus outbreak are trying to prevent operations elsewhere from being affected by supply shortages.

Delta Air Lines said recently it will invest $1 billion over the next 10 years in measures designed to offset climate–warming carbon emissions from its planes. Delta said the money would go into things such as boosting fuel efficiency and investing in efforts to remove carbon from the atmosphere by planting trees and restoring wetlands.