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Power Plays Rethink energy management with distributed power generation, higher-efficiency equipment and business-continuity planning. |
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Save your energy! Is energy management a priority within your company? It should be. No-cost and low-cost energy audit opportunities often are only a phone call or an e-mail away. |
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Hedging Your Bets Conservation plans that protect during crisis pay cost-cutting dividends year-round. |
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Factories Of The Future -- Plant-Floor Strategy The most crucial investment for the factory of the future will be made not in hardware or software, but in understanding how manufacturing technology provides new options to power business success. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Plant Blueprints Turn Green Building a new plant? Might as well design it for energy efficiency now, while you still have a choice. |
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MRO Q&A: How can I lower my energy costs? I am in charge of an older facility and need to make it more financially competitive. Energy is my biggest cost. How can I lower my costs? |
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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. |
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March 1, 2007
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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. |
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Winning with Manual Machines Despite the promise of CNC equipment, many job shops still find that manual machines are getting the job done. |
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Make That Cincinnati Milacron This maker of plastics injection molding machines explains the motivation for its name change and the importance of a brand. |
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Annual Capital Spending Outlook: Spend Now to Save Later Some of the biggest food companies are budgeting capital expenditures for multi-year programs meant to reduce costs in the long run. |
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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. |
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Win With Co-Injection Milacron Inc.'s Big Machine Open house last December in Batavia, Ohio showed how co-injection technology gives molders new ways to add value -- and helps offset the advantages of "low-labor cost countries." |
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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. |
