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Continuous Improvement -- A Better Way of Developing New Products Involve your suppliers and operations people in the product development process at the very earliest stages. |
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March 1, 2008
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Manufacturing Is Not For the Faint at Heart -- IndustryWeek's 2008 Salary Survey Comments When asked to comment on the state of the industry, manufacturing managers throughout the United States share a common concern that the odds seem to be stacked against them. |
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Rockwell Collins Accelerates With Lean Engineering Streamlined product-development processes cut cycle times, reduce time-to-market. |
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Time To Tell Your CPOs to Collaborate With Suppliers How to create value by collaborating inside and outside the organization. |
InternetNews
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Is Economics Driving PC 'Innovation' Offshore? As the business of designing, building, and distributing PCs becomes increasingly globalized, U.S. PC vendors have exported less valuable work offshore, while keeping more valuable and innovative product development, project management and marketing and branding functions here. |
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The Tough Get Going Collaboration. That's the one-word description of the rapidly evolving business practice that increasingly defines success for automotive suppliers. |
Food Engineering
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Engineering Brain Drain? New Strategies for Coping Does the food industry still have the engineering competencies to deliver innovation and great bottom line results? It's business challenges are as intense as ever, and the winners will be the ones who can uncover the keys to successfully converting the opportunities to real business results. |
IndustryWeek
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New Product Development -- Lesser Royals The customer may be king, but too often he's given less than the royal treatment... |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2007
David Blanchard |
Manufacturing's Biggest Challenges -- IndustryWeek's 2007 Salary Survey Responses If you come to work everyday worrying about global competition, finding and keeping skilled labor, raw material shortages, and the quality of your product, you're not alone. |
IndustryWeek
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View From On High IndustryWeek's survey of upper-level manufacturing executives shows what makes top-performing companies tick... |
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June 1, 2002
Tim Stevens |
Factories Of The Future -- Integrated Product Development Leading-edge manufacturers such as DaimlerChrysler, Johnson Controls and General Motors have united the islands of product development and production through carefully crafted systems that connect core functions with one another and with the supply chain... |
HBS Working Knowledge
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Jonathan Byrnes |
Manage Your Suppliers as a Resource Your suppliers can be your most valuable hidden resource. If your supplier management function sets its sights on innovation and value creation, you can find a clear pathway to success. |
Global Services
July 30, 2007
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Re-engineered Globally As outsourcing moves up several notches from writing code and answering calls, companies such as Boeing, Rolls Royce, Smiths Aerospace and General Motors are betting on getting their engineering components designed abroad. |
Global Services
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The Future of Engineering Services Outsourcing By 2010, expect to see further evidence of the transformation of the offshore engineering services market as it learns to meet the increasingly diverse and increasingly strategic needs of global corporations. |
BusinessWeek
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The Race To Build Really Cheap Cars The newest thing on four wheels is sturdy, inexpensive, and probably not made in the U.S. |
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September 2007
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IndustryWeek
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John Teresko |
Fearing R&D's Flight Research and development is an increasingly crucial factor in sustaining the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing amid rapid globalization. Yet experts warn that strategic missteps endanger U.S. technological preeminence. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
April 1, 2012 |
Leading from the South India's most prominent scientist sets a new agenda for pharma in emerging markets. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2007
David Blanchard |
Managing Expectations -- IndustryWeek's 2007 Salary Survey Comments Given the chance to weigh in on the state of the industry, their companies and their employees, manufacturing managers reveal what you always suspected: Things are tough out there, and they're likely to only get tougher. |
Food Engineering
February 1, 2007
Kevin T. Higgins |
Outsourcing Engineering Refining Priorities for New Age Engineers The balancing act that engineering teams must master is outsourcing nonessential jobs while retaining the personnel and talent necessary for innovation. |
IndustryWeek
June 1, 2003
John S. McClenahen |
Waking Up To A New World Is U.S. manufacturing in the midst of a nightmare or a dream come true? |
National Defense
August 2004
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`Virtual Supply Chains' Could Help Bridge Manufacturing Gaps The Defense Department has immediate needs for thousands of products for which no domestic supplier can be found. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2008
David Blanchard |
The Biggest Challenges Facing Manufacturers -- IndustryWeek's 2008 Salary Survey Responses Offshore competition. Finding and retaining skilled labor. Rising costs. Government regulations. Sound familiar? Manufacturing managers share many of the same headaches and confront common challenges. |
Global Services
June 3, 2008
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Solving the Software Puzzle Product engineering challenges thwart innovation and growth. Can outsourcing help? A look at how do strategic product-development partnerships help software vendors. |
IndustryWeek
December 1, 2007
John Teresko |
Fitting Product Design to Production Efficiency Building manufacturing competitiveness on tomorrow's production floor will require strategic conceptual foresight - including part and product designs optimized for both the customer and the manufacturing and assembly processes. |
IndustryWeek
May 1, 2004
John Teresko |
Lean, Green & Smart What's in store for tomorrow's factories? Process intelligence tools, outmaneuvering costly regulations and machine tools that learn their lessons well. |
Prepared Foods
October 1, 2005
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Developing True Product Innovations Coming up with innovative food products affects all aspects of a business, and a new product initiative may need outside help to be successful. An expert affiliated with a product and equipment design firm offers some useful tips. |
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IndustryWeek's 2009 Salary Survey Comments on Manufacturing at the Crossroads One thing all manufacturing managers seem to agree on is that things are tough out there, and getting tougher. |
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Manufacturing Matters, But Who Can Deliver? Mature organizations are shifting from reactive to proactive strategies when it comes to capital and human asset productivity. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
September 1, 2008 |
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Manufacturing? Outsourcing saves pharmaceutical companies money -- except when it doesn't. Here's how to decide what to do. |
Food Engineering
June 4, 2007
Kevin T. Higgins |
Food Automation & Manufacturing 2007 Conference and Expo Challenges abound for food and beverage processors, but creative solutions were the order of the day at this annual conference. |
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April 2013
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Seven Tips for Cross-Functional Team Success Robby Martin, senior engineering project manager with Bush Brothers & Co., shares the keys to establishing a more productive mindset. |
IndustryWeek
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Letters To The Editor For April 2007 Success in manufacturing depends on production that is close to the customer coupled with talented employees. |
IndustryWeek
August 1, 2008
Nick Zubko |
The Do-It-Yourself Guide Is it always cheaper to farm it out, or should some things stay in-house? Here are six ways to help crack the "make or buy" mystery. |
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Time for a Supplier Health Check Make sure your suppliers are up to the challenge of increased responsibilities. |
Food Processing
September 2005
Pehanich & Fusaro |
The 21st century food manufacturing organization Five years into the new millennium, a handful of manufacturing visionaries assesses the current state of American food processing and whether it's prepared for the future. |
IndustryWeek
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Doug Bartholomew |
The Big Squeeze Small and midsize manufacturers say price-cut mandates and online reverse auctions compromise quality and endanger their businesses. Supporters of the practices say the strongest suppliers will survive, making supply chains more efficient... |
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Consider This -- Time for America's Second Industrial Revolution Lean principles offer the fuel to power a renaissance in American manufacturing. |
National Defense
January 2007
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Manufacturing Edge Essential to Defense While the U.S. defense industry remains unsurpassed, it faces long-term challenges - one of which is its ability to secure innovative manufacturing capabilities. This applies all the way from bombers to boots. |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2005
Patricia Panchak |
Shaping the Future of Manufacturing A tour through manufacturing's recent history reveals clues of what's to come. |
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Purpose-Driven Capitalism An old-fashioned talk about values in business. The bottom line is that the bottom line isn't everything. |
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Gerald Shankel |
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Patricia Panchak |
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ONLINE
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Willem Noorlander |
The Rock, the Hard Place, and Doing Business in Today's Information Marketplace Due to increasing business requirements -- and given that the dollars spent for information and market data within many industries make up the second-highest company cost next to people -- one wonders how customers and suppliers alike are weathering the flat market storm. |
Food Engineering
June 4, 2006
Joyce Fassl |
Editor's Note: Relying on Innovation to Meet Production Challenges The biggest challenge of food and beverage company manufacturing leaders is economics. |
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February 1, 2006 |
Letters To The Editor For February 2005 Readers debate whether offshoring involves ethical choices or conscience calmers? |
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