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Manufacturing technology startup SoftWear Automation expands

by Urvaksh Karkaria (Image Credit: Joann Vitelli) on March 31, 2015

Manufacturing technology startup SoftWear Automation is leaving Tech Square for roomier digs.... Read full article

Area manufacturers in need of smart, skilled workers woo high schoolers at Montco fair

by Michaelle Bond (Image Credit: JEFF FUSCO/For the Inquirer) on March 29, 2015

Justin Miniello, a student at North Montco Technical Career Center, works on an automated manufacturing machine prototype at the second ManuFest at Souderton High School on March 28, 2015. (JEFF FUSCO/For the Inquirer)... Read full article

Lack of manufacturing jobs in West Virginia

by The following editorial appeared in The Register-Herald, Beckley, on March 25 on March 29, 2015

A report this week in The Register-Herald looked closely into manufacturing in West Virginia. What we found was a top-heavy representation of manufacturing businesses andjobs in the northern part of the state. ... Read full article

Manufacturing renaissance lost

by ROBERT ATKINSON and ADAMS NAGER on March 26, 2015

Are happy days here again for American manufacturing? Optimists say yes: High global shipping costs, rising Chinese wages and a domestic shale gas boom are bringing appliance manufacturing back to Kentucky, creating automotive jobs in Tennessee and ... Read full article

Toyota Unveils Revamped Manufacturing Process

by YOKO KUBOTA (PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES) on March 26, 2015

World’s best-selling auto maker to produce half its vehicles in this manner by 2020 ... Read full article

Yokohama Tire nearing completion in West Point

by www.hattiesburgamerican.com on March 25, 2015

Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Mississippi, Yokohama LLC's new commercial tire plant in West Point, is nearing completion. The roughly one-million-square-foot factory is on target to begin production in October, with many of its key milestones involving... Read full article

Walmart’s Made in USA initiative bodes well for U.S. packaging sourcing

by Lisa McTigue Pierce on March 24, 2015

Anything Wal-Mart can do to bring jobs home to American workers is included in the company’s U.S. sourcing initiative; and this includes retail packaging, according to Cindi Marsiglio, vp of U.S. manufacturing at Wal-Mart.... Read full article

Global Manufacturing PMI Data: The U.S. Is Still the Best

by Lorcan Roche Kelly on March 23, 2015

A lot of data came out overnight and on Tuesday morning, giving the market a good update on how the biggest global economies are performing.... Read full article

Here's your complete preview of this week's big economic events

by SAM RO (Image Credit - Reuters Abdrew Cullen) on March 23, 2015

"The Committee anticipates that it will be appropriate to raise the target range for the federal funds rate when it has seen further improvement in the labor market and is reasonably confident that inflation will move back to its 2% objective over th... Read full article

Innovation Awards 2015: finalists in manufacturing sector

by Barry McCall (Image Credit: The Irish Times) on March 23, 2015

In Ireland it allows Visa debit cardholders to pay bills up to €15 without going to the trouble of putting the card in the machine and entering a PIN number – all they have to do is scan the card across the surface of the reader and the bill gets pai... Read full article