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Reshaping Global Supply Chains: Impacts of Tariff Hikes and …
Nov 21, 2024 · As global supply chains continue to face challenges in 2024, a potential paradigm shift in U.S. trade policy looms on the horizon. The prospect of dramatically increased tariffs—up to 60% on Chinese imports and 10%-to-20% across all other trading partners, including Mexico—threatens to fundamentally reshape global supply chain landscape.
Biggest Manufactuing Technology Wins of 2024 | IndustryWeek
Dec 26, 2024 · While failure instructs, when it comes to manufacturing technology, what matters is what actually works. Every new technology starts on the hype end of the Gartner cycle. Manufacturers have to wait patiently for new hardware and software to prove out. Then, it takes time to explore and understand ...
Boeing's 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers
Jun 28, 2019 · Increasingly, the iconic American planemaker and its subcontractors have relied on temporary workers making as little as $9 an hour to develop and test software, often from countries lacking a deep background in aerospaceーnotably India.
Connected Worker Tech and AI, Technologies that Provide Fast …
Dec 13, 2024 · Tech companies constantly offer new systems to manufacturers, promising increased productivity, lower costs, less scrap and higher profits. But, some of those shiny new items takes years to show a return if they ever do.
How 3D Printing Fits into Manufacturing, For Real | IndustryWeek
Oct 9, 2024 · “We don’t have the manpower, the engineering capacity, to go through the legacy portfolio to explore opportunities. For, let’s say, 5,000 components or products that we have to screen, I’ll need 300 years of engineering for one person to dedicate for that portfolio.
What To Expect from Additive Manufacturing in 2024
Jan 4, 2024 · The additive manufacturing world’s big news in 2023—the merger between Stratasys, the No.1 additive company (based on 2022 revenues) and Desktop Metal, the No. 4 company—turned into a nothingburger after 3D Systems, the second-largest producer in the industry, put in an offer to purchase Stratasys.
Former Electric Vehicle Maker a Year Later: New Life as a …
May 20, 2024 · Aside from the Qcell, Nxu also has the Qube battery pack, Qube+ ESS, and Qube+ BESS. Its newest offering, the NxuOne charging system, currently has a pilot location in Mesa, Arizona, where the company is headquartered.
Washing-Machine Tariffs Come Out Clean, Sparkling for US …
Jan 16, 2024 · OPINION. In January 2018, the Trump administration imposed tariffs of 20% to 50% on large residential washing machines. The tariffs expired in February 2023. Six years after these tariffs were imposed, the U.S. now has a larger, more successful, and more competitive domestic washing machine industry.
Tariffs, Trump and Nissan Slashes Forecast: IW Manufacturing …
Nov 8, 2024 · It's pretty clear where our IndustryWeek manufacturing community's heads were over the past seven days as election-related coverage accounted for half of our Top 10 most popular content in our latest Weekly Reads. The conclusion of the Boeing strike, long-lived manufacturing companies and big job cuts at Nissan also attracted significant attention.