Manufacturing News

It’s time for a change Your business is ready. Are you?
January 4, 2013 | CoBizMag.Com
In today’s economy, businesses that are still around typically fall into two categories: Either they have survived the economic downturn because they made major changes through cost-cutting efforts such as layoffs, or they entered the downturn buffered by large profit margins.
The Insourcing Boom
December 15, 2012 | The Atlantic
After years of offshore production, General Electric is moving much of its far-flung appliance-manufacturing operations back home. It is not alone. An exploration of the startling, sustainable, just-getting-started return of industry to the United States.
THE GLOBAL INNOVATION 1000 Making Ideas Work
December 14, 2012 | Booz & Co
The early stages of innovation can be challenging. But Booz & Company’s annual study of R&D spending reveals that successful innovators bring clarity to a process often described as fuzzy and vague.
Laser drills could relight geothermal energy dreams
December 13, 2012 | NewScientist
FROM fossil fuels to geothermal heat, accessing the planet's energy riches usually involves boring deep into the Earth with giant metal drills. But could lasers do the same job? Foro Energy, a start-up company in Littleton, Colorado, has developed what it claims is an inexpensive system of high-powered lasers that can rip through rock, potentially revolutionising drilling and hastening the adoption of greener forms of power.
Louisville's Sierra Nevada receives $10 million NASA contract
December 11, 2012 | The Denver Post
Louisville-based Sierra Nevada Space Systems has received a $10 million NASA contract as part of NASA's plan to launch American astronauts from U.S. soil to the International Space Station using commercial spacecraft.
Longmont's Front Range campus to offer machinists' training
December 9, 2012 | Times Call
Machinists no longer work in smoky, greasy, hot environments. Shops today are much quieter, and often air-conditioned. And much of the actual machining is done on computers. The problem is there's work to be done but not enough machinists to do the work.
2012 Facts About Manufacturing
December 6, 2012 | Manufacturing Institute
The Facts About Modern Manufacturing, produced jointly by The Manufacturing Institute, the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation, and the National Association of Manufacturers, is a collection of the key facts and figures that define the state of the U.S. manufacturing industry. The 2012 Edition of the Facts About Modern Manufacturing was published in October 2012 and provides 65 figures that show the importance of the manufacturing sector and challenges that our industry faces. Each of the figures and accompanying descriptions are available in three different formats:
Manufacturers Have Machining Jobs, So FRCC to Start Short-Term Training Classes
November 27, 2012 | Front Range Community College Blog
Responding to the needs of Northern Colorado manufacturers for qualified machinists, Front Range Community College is starting short-term non-credit training classes in February 2013 at the Career Development Center in Longmont.
GE Lighting Acquiring Colorado-Based Fixture Company Albeo Technologies
November 27, 2012 | GE Lighting Pressroom
GE Lighting—inventor of many of the major lighting technologies at work today, including the first visible LED 50 years ago—has signed an agreement to acquire Boulder, Colorado-based Albeo Technologies Inc., a privately held LED fixture manufacturer established in 2004.
The Future of the Visual Arts
November 26, 2012 | Futurist Speaker
Everything can be the canvas with the advent of 3D printing!