Crain’s General Motors Co. said Wednesday that it will cut more than 2,000 factory jobs — including more than 800 in Lansing — because of slowing demand for cars, but plans to invest $900 million to prepare for new products at three plants. GM said it is eliminating the third shift at a Lansing plant that makes the Chevrolet Camaro, Cadillac ATS and Cadillac CTS. The move affects 810 hourly jobs and 29 salaried positions, effective Jan. 16.
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AGMA Gain a better understanding of various types of gears and bearings. Learn about the limitation and capabilities of rolling element bearings and the gears that they support. Grasp and understanding of how to properly apply the best gear-bearing combination to any gearbox from simple to complex.
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My Dayton Daily News A local program to help manufacturers solve business problems will get nearly $1 million. The program, called "Fastlane," will benefit from a five-year Ohio Development Services Agency award, an announcement said. Fastlane will receive $1.4 million, its office said. It also expects to receive an additional $500,000 to support new technologies and supply chains for aerospace materials and manufacturing in Ohio.
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The Kansas City Star General Motors is investing $55 million in a new operation that will employ about 500 workers at a building near its Fairfax assembly plant in Kansas City, Kan. The automaker will lease and occupy the 830,000-square-foot industrial building under construction by NorthPoint Development in the Fairfax Industrial District. NorthPoint is about two-thirds of the way finished with the project.
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Bloomberg Output at U.S. manufacturers rose for a second month in October, a sign the industry is gradually recovering from a prolonged period of weakness. Production at factories, which make up 75 percent of all output, climbed 0.2 percent for a second month, a Federal Reserve report showed Wednesday. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey called for a 0.3 percent gain. Warmer temperatures led to a drop in utility use, resulting in little change to total industrial production, which also includes mining.
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San Francisco Business Times SFMade is leading an initiative, which came together after the organization compiled a report based on research and surveys on manufacturers. The report found that together these four cities have more than 3,200 manufacturing companies that create over 108,500 jobs and account for over 20 percent of California's manufacturing sector, which is the largest in the nation. The region also contributes over $55 billion to the California economy each year.
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Manufacturing Business Technology Health and safety code compliance, inventory management, accurate forecasting, meeting delivery schedules, keeping an eye on overhead, and yes, making a profit. All of these would be just a few of the concerns of a production manager. And as if this weren’t enough, what is already a complicated job is being made even more difficult due to the uncertainty surrounding the recent Brexit vote as well as continued economic weakness in Europe as a whole.
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Chronicle Rhode Island is getting $6 million in federal funding to help train people to work in advanced manufacturing and defense jobs. The state's congressional delegation and governor have announced that the governor's workforce board will receive the federal funding through the America's Promise Job Driven Grant Program to train as many as 1,000 residents during the next four years.
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Cornell University Library (via GE Reports) Two groups of scientists working at MIT and ETH Zurich have created a strange hybrid matter once thought impossible. Called supersolid, it has a crystalline structure like that in a piece of iron, but flows like a liquid at the same time.
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