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What I Read in the News                                                                                   

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Economy

AP (12/9) reports GE CEO Jeff Immelt states green technology can create jobs and grow the economy

Design News (12/9) reports Xerox is expanding 3-D electronics applications via a conductive silver ink for computing power to plastics and other surfaces

 

INNOVATION

AP (12/31) reports Ford and MIT are working on driver and driving conditions awareness

Tri-State Neighbor (South Dakota) ( 12/30) reports 26 new products from soy – Hyundai Santa Fe, Sonata, and Kia Amanti (Lear seats)

NYT (12/29) reports a ‘simple paper’ can detect environmental contaminants

AP (12/18) reports LM Glasfiber to produce 1,800 windmill blades for 600 Samsung wind turbines

Wired (12/9) reports MIT has identified an emissions free power plant via natural gas and fuel cells

Design News (12/9) reports Xerox is expanding 3-D electronics applications via a conductive silver ink for computing power to plastics and other surfaces

NYT (12/9) report that India is concerned with innovation or just receiving jobs for lower cost

Product Design and Development (12/9) reports discussions with industry leaders  indicate an over-populated product pool may have contributed to the recession (Chris) then is it innovation to clone?

AP (12/9) reports GE CEO Jeff Immelt states green technology can create jobs and grow the economy

Numerous (12/8-9) reports Stanford University indicates office paper coated with inky nano’s can be a battery or super-conductor 

Wired (12/1), Popular Science (12/2) report North Carolina State University developing material for antennas that could be embedded into textiles, bandages or bendable displays

Numerous (12/2) reports DOE lithium-ion battery funding is not just for batteries but also will fund energy storage technology

Cleantech (12/1) reports UAV “Iron Tiger” running on hydrogen fuel cells flew for 26 hours and 1 min

BUSINESS MODEL

Numerous (12/22-23) report Boeing buys fuselage sub assembly plant

WSJ (12/18) reports that India’s growth in wind energy will involve GE

Los Angeles Times (12/7) reports the Chinese have hired a New York, Madison Avenue ad agency to improve the image of Chinese made products

AP (12/1) reports Sharp’s robotic flat screen panel to 60” and 65” TV’s is the tenth generation of such products

Managing Automation (12/1) reports ABB to reorganize its automation divisions into “Discrete Automation and Motion” and “Low voltage” for customer satisfaction of synchronized solution for their needs

OPPORTUNITIES

Numerous (12/31) report Brevini and Vat to employ 450+ for wind turbine production

Numerous (12/18) report crash resistant train cars by Rotem division of Hyundai

AP (12/15) reports GE will produce energy efficient washers and dryers at its Louisville KY plant

Bloomberg News (12/11) reports India’s largest engineering firm looks for $1.3b per year for nuclear reactors

AP (12/11) reports that Oshkosh Corp has received a $175m deal for new class of mine resistant trucks

USA Today, WSJ (12/11) reports largest wind farm in the US will be built in Oregon using GE wind turbines

AP (12/10) reports Formation Metals cobalt mine will start producing in 2011 for United Technologies, Rolls Royce and Precision Castparts

NPR (12/10) reports that congress is evaluating extending the R&D tax credit

Plastics News (12/8) reports US Tax Court rules that tooling part of research and development tax credit

Plastics Today (12/7) reports Plastic Molding Technology is expanding production from demand from Latin America and NAFTA companies in Mexico

Managing Automation (12/3) reports Oracle unveils its HP based E-Business Suite for mid sized manufacturers and Infor provides its IBM “I platform” document management system

ECONOMY

Washington Post (12/23) reports weak dollar has benefit for US businesses

Numerous (12/23) report factories, banks, and auto will resume because of prudent controls and stimulus

AP (12/11) reports auto sales in China exceed the US for the first time any country other than the US has lead auto sales by volume

Bloomberg News (12/9) reports World Steel Association and European steel lobby want examination of BHP and Rio joint venture

Bloomberg News (12/7) reports that Sabic (who? = Saudi Basic Industries group), the largest petrochemical producer in the world will triple production by 2020

Numerous (12/3-4) reports the Chinese government is increasing efforts to deal with Chinese steel production’s excess capacity.

Numerous (12/3) Beige Book reports economy improving

Bloomberg News (12/2) reports Italian Industry Minister has asked Fiat to increase production

Numerous (12/1) report manufacturing through November may have fourth straight month of growth

The above are from SME Daily Executive Briefing; Newspaper's internet articles; Magazine's internet articles; and e-mails from reputable media.  Please see the "Links for Information" below sources of 'What I Read'

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Links for Information -

Society of Manufacturing Engineers www.sme.org -

Manufacturing technology, innovation and change tools leads the identification of improving any type of business

BIZTIMES www.biztimes.com - What is happening in your area, regarding all types of business

PLANT ENGINEERING www.plantengineering.com

AMP www.maintenance.org

THE PARANET GROUP www.paranetgroup.com "The best professional organization for manufacturing managers"

Stapleton Resources www.stapletonresources The "Closing Myth" (advancing the sales campaign versus closing the sale)

INDUSTRYWEEK www.industryweek.com - Updates of latest industrial progress

Technology Review www.technologyreview.com - The future presently being developed for all types of products.

cnet www.cnet.com Product reviews and new devices

Advertising Age www.adage.com - The latest buzz products being promoted.

CNBC www.cnbc.com - Perspective of how the indirect customer (owner) looks at a business.

Real Business Development success

Business Wire www.businesswire.com

TheStreet.com www.thestreet.com

Investors Business Daily www.investors.com

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL www.online.wsj.com

FINANCIAL TIMES www.ft.com

Motley Fool www.fool.com

HARLEY-DAVIDSON MUSEUM www.harley-davidson.com 

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