Industry
Reshoring Initiative offers strategy advice to Trump administration
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Manufacturing
Types of autonomous vehicles
Federal regulators unveiled policies to guide automakers as they develop self-driving cars and trucks using SAE International’s six-point scale to define levels of autonomous vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) expects automakers to classify all vehicles using SAE levels 0 through 5 in the coming years to identify how safety should be evaluated.
Industry
Ford earnings plunge on recall costs, product launches
Declines had been expected, beat Wall Street expectations.
Manufacturing
Manufacturing orders improve in August
This is the first time since March 2015 that there was growth in all six regions tracked for the U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders report.
Supply Chain
Festo opens Cincinnati area logistics plant
Automation equipment supplier seeks closer ties to Midwest customers.
Manufacturing
Lamborghini, MIT form research partnership
Italian sports car company to work with university researchers.
Manufacturing
5 key changes to ISO 9001
Smithers Quality Assessments reviewers discuss critical updates to the most common manufacturing accreditation standard.
Manufacturing
Driving without brakes
Auto sales finally got back above pre-recession levels in 2014 with August sales reaching a seven-year high. After six long years, sales levels have matched 2007’s pace. More importantly, several research groups expect 2015 continue to grow. Today’s Motor Vehicles allows marketers direct access to this healthy industry with continued growth.
Engineering
Seeing through metal: CT scanning for metrology
Cincinnati-based Exact Metrology invests in X-ray computed tomography equipment to collect dimensional measurements of complex 3D workpieces.
Engineering
Spray-on sound-deadening materials
Dow Coating Materials engineers say switching to liquid-applied acoustic coatings from bitumen pads can lower vehicle weights while improving noise, vibration, and harshness performance.
Manufacturing
Motion Industries buying industrial automation provider Braas Co.
Braas Co. is a distributor of products and services for industrial automation and control.