LINCOLNWOOD, IL—Gage Assembly Co., a specialized manufacturer of thread plug and ring gages, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Founded in Chicago in 1953, Gage Assembly came to serve as a hub for Midwest manufacturers.
ATLANTAManufacturers that compete based on innovation in products and processes rather than on low cost earn higher profits and benefit from higher wages.
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL—Quality can be improved with an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system because manufacturers are forced to implement standard procedures and maintain accurate data for the system to work effectively.
DEARBORN, MIOnly one in four small to midsized manufacturers in the Northeast are pursuing lean manufacturing, according to a survey by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.
Rolf Biekert has been named president of Trumpf Inc., the North American subsidiary of the Trumpf Group. He succeeds Peter Leibinger who has been named president of Trumpf Laser GmbH & Co.
CLEVELANDThe fight to end the section 201 steel tariffs took a step forward in March when the House Ways and Means Committee submitted a request to the International Trade Commission (ITC) that it conduct an investigation to examine the impact of the steel tariffs on steel-consuming industries.