It gives us great pleasure at IndustryWeek to announce the winners of the 2024 IW Best Plants Awards competition: Hindlepower, Inc. of Easton, #Pennsylvania, and Hoffer Plastics of South Elgin, #Illinois. These two facilities exemplify #manufacturing excellence in North America, and it will be our great pleasure to share more about these winning facilities throughout the month of September. Join us in congratulating the people who make these fine manufacturing facilities go. HindlePower and Hoffer Plastics comprise our 34th class of IndustryWeek Best Plants honorees. The competition launched in 1990. https://lnkd.in/e8iiD-tg
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Remember merger mania among #additive manufacturers a year ago, with companies offering nearly $2 billion to buy each other? That was then. "Now, the remaining players in the additive #manufacturing space are finally poised to complete some mergers, for less than $200 million as the industrial 3D printer market struggles to earn any money," write IndustryWeek's Robert Schoenberger and Geert De Lombaerde as they discuss plunging market valuations for the technology and what the future may hold. What does all this mean for companies like Stratasys, Nano Dimension, Desktop Metal, 3D Systems Corporation? https://lnkd.in/edUEAdvr #3Dprinting #manufacturing #additivemanufacturing #IndustryWeek
Additive Manufacturing Merger Craze Doesn’t Add Up to Big Payouts
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Welcome to So That Happened, our editors’ takes on things going on in the #manufacturing world that deserve some extra attention. In this edition we highlight plant investments in #Colorado and #Kentucky, the state of generative #AI, lithium-ion battery startup FREYR Battery, product recall statistics for Q2 and more. Check it out. https://lnkd.in/ew6KaQpG
So That Happened: Seriously Employers, Just Talk to Your People!
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As we approach Labor Day, it seems an appropriate time to ask: How well do you know U.S. #labor history? Take our quiz and find out! https://lnkd.in/eMFxschi #history #LaborDay #unions #quiz
How Well Do You Know US Labor History??
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It's a whole new world out there when it comes to #supplychain management, writes Jamie Flinchbaugh, founder of advisory firm JFlinch (and a long-time IndustryWeek contributor). "For generations of supply chain leaders, the key words and phrases that dominated were #optimization, #rationalization, cost reduction, inventory reduction and so on." Not so anymore. "Supply Chain Risk Management is the new altar," he says. And failure to recognize this new normal has consequences. "It's important to recognize that how you think about #risk affects how decisions get made, how people get measured and even how you design your organization." Read more about Flinchbaugh's perspective on addressing supply chain risk, including a strategy he refers to as Monitor, Mobilize and Mitigate. https://lnkd.in/gfs-G_Yz #leadership #riskmanagement #supplychainmanagement #manufacturing #IndustryWeek
Supply Chain Leaders Need a New Playbook, Focusing on Risk
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Finding and retaining top talent remains one of the biggest challenges in #manufacturing and one certainly faced by Endress+Hauser Group, a company with U.S. headquarters in #Indiana. The maker of measuring equipment for process industries uses a European #apprenticeship model to attract future #talent, with initial outreach starting with elementary school students. In this video from the IndustryWeek Operations #Leadership Summit in #Indianapolis this summer, Endress+Hauser Director of Workforce Development Nicole Otte describes her companies efforts to build a talent pipeline for years to come. Joining her was former #apprentice, now a technical program trainer, Nicolas Rhorer. https://lnkd.in/eBCW84j9 #manufacturing #industrial #talentmanagement
Apprentice Programs Support Indiana Manufacturing
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Have you given thought to #patent protection in outer space? Intellectual property in the cosmos is vast and full of unknowns, says Qixuan (Vanessa) Wang, a patent agent with the Chicago-based intellectual property boutique law firm Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP. Still, there are possibilities and limitations to consider. "While patent experts agree that a perfect solution to protect outer space #inventions is still beyond the horizon, understanding where the loopholes lie and patenting strategically can create an advantage in maximizing the protection for inventors," Wang says. In this article, Wang offers her thoughts on navigating "the uncertain water of space patent protection." #intellectualproperty #IP #invention #outerspace #legal https://lnkd.in/eJXei4Yc
Who Owns 3D Printing on the Moon? and Other Space-Patent Conundrums
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Production Pulse: Connected Worker Tech, Why and How Connecting frontline workers with back-end manufacturing technology can give them the context and information to do their jobs better. But, how does it work, and what are the immediate goals? IW discusses the technology with Jerry Grunewald of INVISTA and Eric Whitley of L2L.
Production Pulse: Connected Worker Tech, Why and How
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A few weeks ago we shared what Toyota looks for in future #leaders, courtesy of Brett Wood, president and CEO of Toyota Material Handling North America, who gave a keynote address at the IndustryWeek Operations Leadership Summit. Here we share more of his presentation, specifically his conversation around the Toyota Production System. #ToyotaProductionSystem #TPS #leanmanufacturing #kaizen #visualmanagement #employeeempowerment #manufacturing #muda https://lnkd.in/gcQYP7sW
The 3 E's of TPS and How the Basics Never Go Out of Style
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We are in the early stages of "dismantling of traditional business and #economic models to make way for revolutionary technologies and innovative processes designed to vastly improve living standards," says Noel H. Nevshehir, director of Automation Alley’s International Business Services and Global Strategic Partnerships. "Like past economic transitions, today’s #digital wave and its industry laggards are struggling to catch up, boost their #technological knowledge, and overcome similar barriers to adoption. Once they do, #productivity will rise sharply as workers shift from lower-value to higher-value activities," he states. Productivity #metrics need to catch up as well, Nevshehir states, explaining that #GDP and other econometric models don't consider the value-added aspects of innovative #technologies. "Among other things, they exclude the impact of #AI and machine learning, #automation and #robotics, IT integration, e-commerce, improved processes and workflows and scaled-up supply chains." #economy #machinelearning #ecommerce #supplychain #innovation https://lnkd.in/evVUacGg
Industry 4.0 Gains Are Ahead of the Tools to Measure Them
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