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3D Printing Brings Competitiveness to Regional Manufacturing

June 17, 2015

Using a cluster model developed at the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation, Cliff Waldman, MAPI Foundation economic studies director, says 3D printing has caused an increase in regional manufacturing competitiveness.

Partnership Aims to Streamline Designs for 3D Printing of Parts

June 11, 2015

PTC

PTC and Stratasys Ltd. are working to deliver a seamless experience between PTC Creo design software and Stratasys 3D Printing Solutions. The joint vision is to make additive manufacturing more accessible to designers and manufacturers and to allow them to fully realize the advantages of the technology. These advantages include geometric freedom and part functionality, economic low volume and on-demand manufacturing, the production of customized products, and more.

Yes, You Can 3D Print Anything, But Should You? Maybe They Aren't the 'Real' Thing.

June 8, 2015

Defense Systems

It seems that these days you can 3D print anything, from food to parts for rocket engines.

Manufacturing Jobs Are Coming Back to U.S. More and More, It Seems

May 27, 2015

Industrial Distribution

A study by the Reshoring Initiative shows that 60,000 manufacturing jobs were brought into the U.S. by a combination of reshoring and foreign direct investment in 2014, a record level and 400 percent increase since 2003.

AspenTech Unveils Update of aspenONE App for Manufacturers

May 26, 2015

Aspen Technology Inc.

Aspen Technology Inc., a vendor of optimization software for the process industries, has made generally available version 8.8 of aspenONE Engineering and aspenONE Manufacturing and Supply Chain.

U.S. Manufacturing Could Learn a Lesson from Europe's Programs to Train Journeymen

May 5, 2015

Industry Week

There are many articles about the problem of America's "skilled worker shortage" and why we need advanced training; but most don't define or explain what they mean by "advanced training."

For U.S. Manufacturers to Remain Upbeat, Several Industry and Economic Stars Must Align

May 4, 2015

Industry Today

After a long period of economic turmoil, manufacturers in the United States are finding reasons to be optimistic. Demand is up and companies are seeing improvements in productivity, along with increases in profits. For this upward trajectory to continue, however, industry executives and governmental representatives cannot be complacent. Production efficiency, energy costs, tax legislation and education access are integral to the success of the industry's current fiscal condition and need to be nurtured or reformed. If the current business environment is to last, there is still more work to do.

Manufacturing World Continues to Welcome Robots With Open Arms

April 23, 2015

IDC Manufacturing Insights

In the manufacturing environment of today, robotics are now playing a significant role, taking on jobs beyond assembly and helping to drive efficiency, consistency, and productivity across the supply chain.

Industry 4.0: The Future of Productivity, Growth in Manufacturing

April 14, 2015

Boston Consulting Group

Technological advances have driven dramatic increases in industrial productivity since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. The steam engine powered factories in the 19th Century, electrification led to mass production in the early part of the 20th Century, and industry became automated in the 1970s. In the decades that followed, however, industrial technological advancements were only incremental, especially compared with the breakthroughs that transformed IT, mobile communications, and e-commerce.

China's Ascent to Become World's Largest Manufacturer Achieved Quickly, But in Making for Decades

April 8, 2015

MAPI

China became the largest manufacturing economy in the world (with a 23.2 percent share of manufacturing activity) through extremely fast growth in the physical volume of value-added and modest inflation. The U.S. is in second place with a 17.2 percent share. China has more than four times the population of the United States, and though its manufacturing intensity of $1,978 per capita value-added in 2013 is high for a developing economy, it is well behind advanced countries such as the United States ($6,338).