Manufacturing & Materials

Magazine articles on manufacturing and material mining and processing.

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IndustryWeek November 1, 2007 Brad Kenney	Forecasted Wireless Growth -- 2007-2011: By the Numbers Asset monitoring tops the list on forecasted wireless growth.
IndustryWeek November 1, 2007 Brad Kenney	CFOs Cite Data Quality as Top Concern With shop-floor data driving top-floor decisions, information security is starting to take a back seat.
IndustryWeek November 1, 2007 Jonathan Katz	The Great Supply Chain Robbery Manufacturers are leveraging the latest advances in security technology to stay one step ahead of the bad guys.
IndustryWeek November 1, 2007 Jonathan Katz	Supply Chain Security's Added Benefit According to some manufacturers, supply chain security doesn't have to be considered a cost burden.
IndustryWeek November 1, 2007 Jonathan Katz	Hiring Temporary Workers Can Cause Long-Term Problems Temps can present insurance and risk management issues if precautions aren't taken. Manufacturers can mitigate these potential pitfalls by ensuring that their temporary staffing providers have adequate workers' compensation and liability policies.
IndustryWeek November 1, 2007 Jonathan Katz	Hiring Expectations for Q4 2007: By the Numbers More than half of durable manufacturers expect employment to stay the same.
IndustryWeek November 1, 2007 Jonathan Katz	Cost Isn't Everything Best use of lean is when newly available capacity is used to grow business.
IndustryWeek November 1, 2007 John Teresko	Pre-empting Electrical Power Outages Start inside the facility. Nearly 80% of all business downtime is caused by internal electrical power problems.
IndustryWeek November 1, 2007 John Teresko	The Latest Words on the Toyota Production System A new book illustrates that even though the most cited achievements of the Toyota Production System are often those of large volume automotive plants.
IndustryWeek November 1, 2007 John Teresko	Ford's Light Idea Lighting retrofits at Ford's parts distribution facilities are expected to save 20 million kWh annually.
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