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IndustryWeek
January 1, 2008
Jonathan Katz |
Plant Blueprints Turn Green Building a new plant? Might as well design it for energy efficiency now, while you still have a choice.   |
| T.H.E. Journal |
PDAs & Handhelds A table comparing the various features and prices of different PDAs. |
National Real Estate Investor
February 1, 2007
John Egan |
3D Problem Solvers 3D modeling, based on computer-aided design, lets engineers build a plant in a virtual setting as many times as needed before the first concrete is poured. |
Food Engineering
September 1, 2006 |
Plant floor cost cutting via wireless Wireless technology is about to see widespread adoption where it will have a profound impact -- on the food-plant floor and out in the field. |
IndustryWeek
May 1, 2003
John Teresko |
View Machinery As 'Functional' Is your maintenance capability able to support the growing business velocity that manufacturing technology enables? |
IndustryWeek
May 20, 2009
Jonathan Katz |
Ford Plant Restarts Engines With Skilled Training Cleveland Engine Plant No. 1 used lean manufacturing and new cultural practices that helped the plant gain a new engine. |
Food Processing
September 2010 |
MRO Q&A: Why hasn't predictive maintenance developed faster in food & beverage plant operations? A look at the factors that must be present for a plant to have sufficient benefit from predictive maintenance to justify the investment in measurement equipment. |
The Motley Fool
June 11, 2010
Howard Lovy |
South Korean Company Moves Lithium-Ion Battery Plant To Michigan Michigan bills itself as the center of advanced automobile battery manufacturing. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2006
John Teresko |
Partnership Pays Off The New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. experiment today employs 5,000; produces Pontiac Vibe and Toyota Corolla, Tacoma. |
CIO
September 15, 2003
Michael Fitzgerald |
GM Pushes Web Services to the (Shop) Floor General Motors is one company that's test-driven Web services and is moving the technology to the open road. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2008
Jonathan Katz |
Toyota's Eco-Friendly Plan for New Plant Lean manufacturing pioneer Toyota Motor Corp. will use its model of efficiency to create an environmentally friendly plant in Blue Springs, Mississippi. |
Food Processing
October 2010 |
MRO Q&A: Why Do Good Plants Go Down? From a macro perspective the top three major shutdown threats for a food plant could be summarized as: a catastrophic event, a facility's internal operational failure or a facility's external operational failure. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2, 2010
David Kiley |
Goodbye, NUMMI: How a Plant Changed the Culture of Car-Making This plant, which broke so much ground back in 1984, turning around a dysfunctional workforce, is in many ways a relic. |
Food Engineering
December 1, 2006 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Totally Chocolate begins operations in new manufacturing facility... Blue Ribbon Cheese Co. to build a $225 million manufacturing facility in California... etc. |
Food Engineering
May 1, 2006 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Wayne Farms LLC opens further-processing facility... Barilla America building $96.2 million pasta manufacturing plant... Gold'n Plump Poultry invests $38 million to expand Arcadia, WI, facility... Wrigley Co. plans $48-million expansion of Flowery Branch, GA, plant... |
PHONE+
Mike Rosen |
Producing ROI for Manufacturers Given the potential operational downsides related to an inefficient or outdated communications system, your sales pitch to manufacturing companies must begin and end with ROI. |
Food Engineering
July 1, 2009 |
Facility overhaul provides improved equipment maintenance Key factors in the selection included application specificity, longevity and maintenance. |
Food Processing
July 2010 |
MRO Q&A: What's a Large, Older Plant to Do? Every facility has just two basic elements to offer: location and people. |
IndustryWeek
December 15, 2010 |
American Axle & Manufacturing - Three Rivers Manufacturing Facility: IW Best Plants Profile 2010 Driving Home the Benefits of Productivity: World-class manufacturing systems and employee involvement enable AAM's Three Rivers plant to win new business. |
IndustryWeek
May 1, 2002
John Teresko |
Factories Of The Future -- Strategic Design GM, Ford and Steelcase integrate best-practices goals into new-plant planning... |
IndustryWeek
December 16, 2009
Jonathan Katz |
Cat's Virtual Value Stream Company takes advantage of economic downturn to revamp workflow at Illinois plant by utilizing digital planning systems. |
The Motley Fool
June 18, 2010
John Rosevear |
Autos Weekly: Toyota's Return to Arrogance? Toyota's efforts at world domination resume. Plus: Good news for GM, and the coming battery glut. |
IndustryWeek
December 15, 2010 |
IEC Electronics Corp.: IW Best Plants Profile 2010 IEC Plant Rises From the Dead: Almost out for the count, circuit-board assembly operation reinvents itself. |
IndustryWeek
December 15, 2010 |
Things We Learned in the Storm Manufacturing success requires relentless pursuit of operational excellence and a committed, engaged work force. |
Food Engineering
August 3, 2006
Joyce Fassl |
Editor's Note: In search of the next winner Which outstanding new plant construction project, major expansion or highly renovated facility will be the next Plant of the Year? |
IndustryWeek
December 15, 2010 |
Snap-on Power Tools: IW Best Plants Profile 2010 Staying Power: How do you create an 'enduring manufacturing footprint' in a hard-hit North Carolina town? The lean way, of course. |
IndustryWeek
November 18, 2009 |
GM, Ford and Chrysler Strive to Become The Lean Three Continuous improvement has taken hold in Detroit - and not a moment too soon. |
Food Engineering
March 6, 2006 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Leprino Foods begins construction on cheese plant expansion... Pineland Farms plans to build specialty cheese plant... etc. |
Food Engineering
January 1, 2008 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Nestle Waters opening new plant and will create 250 new manufacturing jobs... Green Meadows Dairy plans to open state-of-the-art cheese and whey plant...Kellogg's Cheez-It factory to expand... etc. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2007
John S. McClenahen |
Factory Of The Future Get a glimpse now of manufacturing tomorrow. |
Food Engineering
September 1, 2008 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Kraft Pizza Company breaks ground on Little Chute, WI, plant... Stellar completes construction of meat processing plant in Seminole, OK... Ottens Flavors purchases Philadelphia plant... Hormel Foods is constructing a new production facility in Dubuque, IA... |
BusinessWeek
November 21, 2005
Welch & Henry |
Can GM Stop Blowing Cash? Why are investors getting edgy about GM's nest egg? They fear the company won't have the money needed for a radical restructuring |
IndustryWeek
January 31, 2012
Josh Cable |
Box-Swap Process Helps GM-Fort Wayne Keep on Truckin' The plant came up with a 'creative process' to accommodate heavy-duty pickup trucks that were too large for its conveyance system, plant manager Mike Glinski says. |
IndustryWeek
January 11, 2012 |
General Cable Corp. -- Lincoln, R.I.: IW Best Plants Profile 2011 After decades of batch-and-queue production, a veteran workforce has embraced the switch to cellular manufacturing. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2008
Jonathan Katz |
Prevent Defense Take plant environments into account before performing preventive maintenance. |
Food Engineering
June 4, 2006 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Bush Brothers & Co. to expand its Tennessee operation... Nestle Prepared Foods to invest in new production equipment at its Jonesboro, AR, manufacturing facility... Organic food processor Amy's Kitchen is building a new plant... |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2006
John Teresko |
National Gypsum Co.: IW Best Plants Profile 2006 A Comeback Winner: Wallboard maker stages a revival that is all about people, purpose and performance. |
Food Processing
May 2005
Mike Pehanich |
How to retrofit an aging plant Food processors looking to retrofit aging facilities to get more out of their capital budgets should heed these "rules of retro" before they bring their plants into the 21st century. |
The Motley Fool
July 28, 2005
Rich Smith |
Strike Three for Hooker The furniture manufacturer announced that that it will close its third plant in as many years. Investors are less than eager to stick around to see how its latest plan plays out. |
Food Engineering
December 1, 2008 |
Plant Openings & Expansions ADM company opens 500,000-sq.-ft. cocoa processing facility... H. J. Heinz partners in new Florence, SC., frozen-food manufacturing facility... etc. |
Food Engineering
April 1, 2005
Olin Thompson |
Something broken this way comes An estimated 35 percent of indirect cost in a food plant is due to maintenance. Can you foresee upcoming equipment failures? Predictive and preventive maintenance software can help keep your plant running. |
InternetNews
February 28, 2006
Clint Boulton |
Intel to Craft Chips in Vietnam Intel today pledged to put up $300 million to build a semiconductor manufacturing and test plant in Ho Chi Minh City, part of the company's quest to expand its operations in overseas. |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2002
John Teresko |
Robots Evolution At GM and Xerox, new applications are redefining both the strategic value and appearance of robots... |
IndustryWeek
April 18, 2012 |
Plant Managers Assume More Profit-Driving Responsibilities In today's fast-paced, globalized economy companies are seeking plant managers with a strong business sense. |
IndustryWeek
July 21, 2010 |
U.S. Automakers Back on Top Plant-floor and engineering quality improvements pay off for domestic OEMs. |
Food Engineering
September 1, 2006
Richard F. Stier |
Form fits function Choosing whether to build a new plant or renovate or expand an existing one is based on any number of necessary functions. |
Food Engineering
January 1, 2009 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Keystone Foods LLC's new processing plant in Gadsden, AL... Sara Lee Corporation will build a new coffee-extraction plant in the Netherlands... Barrel O'Fun Snack Foods Co. purchased 12.5 acres in Phoenix, AZ and began construction of a 144,000 sq.-ft. manufacturing and distribution center... |
Food Processing
December 2009 |
MRO Q&A: What Will the Recession Effect Be for Food & Beverage? There's no way of knowing for sure that this recession has ended. But every day there are more indications we're on the road to recovery. |
Food Engineering
January 1, 2006 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Coors Brewing Co. is spending nearly $200 million to convert... Bud Antle Inc., a subsidiary of Dole, is investing $54 million to build and equip a vegetable processing plant... etc. |
IndustryWeek
May 1, 2005
Doug Bartholomew |
Sleeping With The Enemy General Motors and Ford. Hitachi and Panasonic. Northrop Grumman and BAE. Timken and SKF. The giants of manufacturing are teaming up with their competitors to cut costs and increase market share. |
