Reuters Earlier in August, U.S. drillers this week added oil rigs for an eighth consecutive week, the longest recovery streak in the rig count in over two years, as crude prices rebounded toward the key $50-a-barrel mark that makes the return to the well pad viable.
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Los Angeles Times Exports from Mexican factories have jumped 13 percent since 2012. The country already ranks as the seventh-largest producer of cars in the world, and Chrysler, Honda and Volkswagen have major operations there. Over the next five years, another wave of big automakers, including Ford, Audi and Toyota, plan to bring new plants online.
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AGMA Register for the FTM by this Wednesday, to save $100. This is an outstanding meeting with presentations in five sessions: Manufacturing, Inspection and Quality Control; Materials & Heat Treatment; Application and Design & Rating; Efficiency, Lubrication, Noise and Vibration; and Gear Wear & Failure. Complete information here.
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The New York Times Kato Manufacturing, based in the blue-collar enclave of Gifu Prefecture, in central Japan, is a microcosm of the country’s industrial evolution. The family-run metal shop, which was started 128 years ago, originally made simple farming tools for what was then a largely agrarian society. When Japan morphed into a manufacturing giant, churning out automobiles and electronics for the world, Kato supplied the metallic equivalent of skeletons: sculpted frames and housings that gave products their shape.
Visit http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/23/business/international/japan-aerospace-manufacturing.html to view the full article online.
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New York Times The New York Times reports that completion of the Block Island Wind Farm off the coast of Rhode Island "will mark the start of a new American industry." Thousands of offshore wind turbines have already been installed in Europe, but American wind power projects "ran into roadblocks, including high costs, murky rules ... and stiff opposition from people who did not want their ocean views marred by machinery." However, the Administration has been using a 2005 law to clarify wind-power regulations and lease out large patches of ocean floor for wind-power development.
Visit http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/23/science/americas-first-offshore-wind-farm-may-power-up-a-new-industry.html to view the full article online.
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Global Manufacturing Technavio recently published a report detailing the top three emerging trends impacting the Global RTLS Market for industrial applications to 2020, and found that Ubisense is behind smart factories for many of the globe’s leading manufacturers. Jay Cadman at Ubisense talks about the history of smart factories and the new products today that are enabling many more businesses to realize the benefits of RTLS.
Visit http://www.manufacturingglobal.com/technology/895/The-past-present-and-future-of-smart-factories to view the full article online.
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CIO As a manufacturer, you need visibility and control to keep quality high and costs low. Mobile and wearable technology offers the potential for more insight into what is happening on the plant floor, and provide your employees untethered access to important, job-critical data. But is the investment worth it? Or are mobile and wearable devices just another technology fad?
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3D print.com 3D printing, now available to anyone who is able save up at least a few hundred bucks and enjoy a minor learning curve, has indeed begun to infiltrate the mainstream. And while printing from the desktop can engage us all for hours, allowing us to make any number of items, from basic jewelry to complex car transmissions and even jet engines, for those using the technology in serious lab and industrial settings, all that magic is sometimes accompanied by incredible challenge and plenty of time given over to trial and error—especially in manufacturing with metal to produce complex parts.
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Manufacturing.net Manufacturing equipment maker ATC Automation is expanding its operations in Cookeville, Tenn., and adding 110 new jobs. The company says most of the new positions will be engineering jobs to help ATC meet growing demand for its assembly lines and test equipment for the automotive, medical, energy and consumer products markets.
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Bloomberg
Exxon is "teaming up with" Chevron and Hess "to bid on crude oil rights in Mexico’s deepwater areas," according to new reports. The three massive companies "reached a joint operating agreement – which becomes null and void if any of the three companies backs out – that would allow the group to bid on 10 areas in Mexico’s first-ever deepwater drilling rights sale on Dec. 5." According to Bloomberg, Mexico is expected to make around $44 billion from the sale.
Visit http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-18/exxon-chevron-hess-said-to-be-in-joint-bid-for-mexican-oil to view the full article online.
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