CHONGQING, CHINA-Ford Motor Co.’s passenger car joint venture in China, Changan Ford Mazda Automobile (CFMA), broke ground today for a new engine plant in Chongqing. The $500 million investment will
TOKYO, JAPAN (Courtesy of Edmunds Auto Observer )-Honda forecasts a 63% decline in profits for its 2012 fiscal year, due to production disruptions caused by Japan’s March 11 earthquake combined
BENBROOK, TX-The Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS) will conduct a large-scale, interactive measurement study during the 27th annual Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference (CMSC), July 25 – 29, at the Arizona Biltmore
MCLEAN, VA and ROCKVILLE, MD--April U.S. manufacturing technology consumption totaled $396.92 million, according to The Association For Manufacturing Technology (AMT, McLean, VA) and the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association (AMTDA,
CHICAGO– U.S. manufacturing leaders have turned pessimistic regarding the U.S. economy, according to Grant Thornton LLP’s most recent Business Optimism Index, a quarterly survey of U.S. manufacturing business leaders. Only
HATFIELD, PA-Laboratory Testing Inc. (LTI) continues to expand its line of materials testing services with the recent addition of Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) services. FTIR is an analytical technique
HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA- NDT Systems Inc. has relocated to a customized facility three times the size and blocks away from its former facility in Huntington Beach, CA. The move coincides
ANN ARBOR, MI-Machine vision sales grew 34% in North America in the first quarter of 2011, the fifth straight quarter of double-digit growth according to the Quarterly Machine Vision Sales
PLYMOUTH, MN-The U.S. Patent Office issued patent number 7,934,428 for the residual torque analysis technology used in ASI Datamyte’s LightStar line of torque and angle wrenches and measurement system. The
CHICAGO-Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) local Chapter 5 in Chicago awarded two women college students seperate $2,000 scholarship awards from its Marshall Blu Scholarship Fund. The awards were approved by