Bloomberg BusinessweekIt’s not that American manufacturing isn’t doing well. Companies are moving operations back to the U.S. The South is becoming one of the cheapest places to build things in the world. Factories are humming along at their fastest pace in years. Since the spring of 2010, the U.S. has added 600,000 new manufacturing jobs. That’s great and all, until you consider the 1.9 million manufacturing jobs lost during the recession.
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The AGMA 2014 Fall Technical Meeting (FTM) provides an outstanding opportunity for you to receive the latest research in the field, network with your peers, and learn about latest methods and cutting edge technologies in the gearing industry today.
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NPROn the one hand, U.S. manufacturing is booming. Customers everywhere want our aircraft, electrical equipment, engines, metal products, chemicals and much more. Still, Americans worry. They have seen factory jobs disappear at a breathtaking pace. In 1979, nearly 20 million Americans made goods for a living. Today, only about 12 million are still standing on factory floors.
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Waterloo Region RecordThe "steel-collar workers" are moving in. But while many people fear the rise of these robots and automated machines taking jobs away from human laborers, they also represent a huge opportunity for the survival of the manufacturing sector in this area, said Larry Smith, a University of Waterloo economics professor, during Manufacturing Day events on Friday.
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Michigan LiveGeneral Motors' Flint Engine Operations had a few extra visitors on Friday, Oct. 3, as 16 students spent the afternoon at the plant. The students, from Flint Northwestern High School and Flint Southwestern Classical Academy, learned about various careers in manufacturing as a part of the event, which was one of 1,500 events throughout North America.
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Manufacturing.netAs industrial robots become smarter, faster, more affordable, and develop advanced capabilities such as sensing, dexterity, memory and trainability, industrial manufacturers across industries are looking to advanced robotics to gain a competitive business advantage, according to a report released today by PwC US in conjunction with The Manufacturing Institute.
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ForbesAmerica’s biggest exporter is having a banner year, thanks to a surge in global demand for jetliners. The Boeing Company has just experienced the most profitable quarter in its 100-year history, and with a backlog of $376 billion in orders for commercial transports such as the 737 and 787 it looks like E.P.S. could reach $10 by the end of the decade — twice what it was when the decade began. The one big question mark in this picture is what will happen with Boeing’s defense business.
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