Tag Archives: Apple

From the Shop Floor — The Week in Manufacturing (12/15/2012)

Writing in the Tacoma News-Tribune, Bill Virgin says that Apple could prove to be the start of a renewed focus on U.S. manufacturing.  Harvard Business School professor Gary Pisano, meanwhile, asks much the same thing. Nike, like Apple, a company whose cache took a big hit as the magnitude of its commitment to offshore production began to make more [...]

From the Shop Floor — The Week in Manufacturing (10/5/2012)

Industry Market Trends sat down recently with consultant and marketing guru AJ Sweatt to talk a little manufacturing. A sign that things which once hit home in this country are starting to take root in China:  the country’s leading steel manufacturer has announced, as a cost cutting measure, it will shutter one of its plants. China-based [...]

From the Shop Floor — The Week in Manufacturing (7/28/2012)

The L.A. Times reports that in June jobless claims dropped and new manufacturing orders took a turn for the better. For the first time since it was launched in 2001, the Honda Civic Hybrid will be made in the U.S. as the company announced it will soon make its popular hybrid in Indiana. Last week [...]