We caught up with Brian to discuss the significance of this appointment:   What is the AIAG committee that you’ve been invited to join? I have been placed on the Global Engineering and IT Steering Committee of AIAG and will initially be serving as a member of the Supplier Connectivity Workgroup. The GE&IT Steering Committee [...]

Kent Niederhofer can’t find enough mechanical engineers to work for him — in southeastern Michigan. You know, where Detroit is, with its 13.3% unemployment rate. Niederhofer is president of the American branch of Ricardo, an engineering consultancy that designs the power trains of some of the coolest stuff around: Bugatti sports cars, huge wind turbines [...]

Strike at Honda Plant in China – though Technically Illegal – Shows Changing Wage and Social Policy Dynamics; How Big will Wages have to Rise for Companies to Source Elsewhere? SCDigest Editorial Staff The rapid rise in manufacturing wages in China took a brief respite with the start of the global recession in 2008, but [...]

From ManagingAutomation.com But wait; they’re chasing it in America. Heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar recently announced that it would look for a site in the United States to build a new factory for its construction excavators. That would replace production work currently performed in Japan and Illinois, and it follows a much ballyhooed decision by GE [...]