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Ford Plant Restarts Engines With Skilled Training Cleveland Engine Plant No. 1 used lean manufacturing and new cultural practices that helped the plant gain a new engine. |
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Winning With Digital Manufacturing Digital manufacturing offers the ability to visualize a finished product before it is actually made, offering reduced costs and increased efficiencies. |
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SDRC Wants You to Go Faster A little-known software company has been helping some of the world's biggest companies speed up their product-development process. Here's a quick lesson in what that fast company has learned to do. |
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Getting Leaner at the Design Stage Software can help reduce inefficiencies by optimizing processes at the earliest stages, when revisions are least expensive. |
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Continuous Improvement -- A Better Way of Developing New Products Involve your suppliers and operations people in the product development process at the very earliest stages. |
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Extending the Digital Advantage Digital strategies are enabling faster product development by accelerating information cycle times. |
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Locations -- Avon Lake, Ohio Ford Motor Co. will use its Ohio Assembly Plant in Avon Lake, Ohio, to produce the Escape, a small SUV. |
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Ford Combines Purchasing with Product Development Ford Motor Co. merges key operations teams to eliminate wasted time and effort. |
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Locations -- Ford Supplier Park Streamlines Material Flow First North American facility of its kind promises speed, flexibility. |
The Motley Fool
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Ford's Turnaround Continues to Impress In a recent presentation, a senior Ford executive gave some details on the state of the company's "One Ford" turnaround efforts. Several points were of interest to investors. |
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GM, Ford and Chrysler Strive to Become The Lean Three Continuous improvement has taken hold in Detroit - and not a moment too soon. |
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Ford's Transformation Remains on Track Ford's VP shares company's ups and downs on road to profitability. |
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John Teresko |
Toyota's Real Secret: Hint, It's Not TPS Manufacturers sometimes assume Toyota's success begins and ends with the Toyota Production System. In truth, though, implementing the TPS is just the first step toward optimizing all the functional processes of an enterprise. |
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Consider This -- Henry Ford's Proven Lessons for American Industry In their quest to understand lean and quality principles, manufacturers need look no further than to the father of the automobile production system. |
National Defense
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Air Force Creating Realistic Avatars with 3-D Scanning Technology The use of 3-D scanners extends far beyond additive manufacturing. The Air Force Research Laboratory's 711 Human Performance Wing is employing such technology to render high-fidelity avatars for simulation and video game training. |
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Defense Needs Better Ways to Test Software Developing software for the Defense Department has many inherent challenges, not the least of which is testing. |
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Digital Manufacturing: Not Only Safety... By giving manufacturers the ability to digitally represent entire operations from the desktop, PLM vendors such as UGS and DELMIA are offering significant enterprise benefits. |
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How to launch a new manufacturing line Consulting engineers can be great allies in expanding or changing your process, but only you can impress on them the unique needs of your company and your plant. |
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Chrysler's Winning Formula: Hot Cars + Flexibility Hot new models are behind Chrysler Group's renaissance, a profit rebirth that Tom W. LaSorda, president and CEO, wants to support and grow via a program of flexible manufacturing. |
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U.S. Automakers Back on Top Plant-floor and engineering quality improvements pay off for domestic OEMs. |
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Factories Of The Future -- Strategic Design GM, Ford and Steelcase integrate best-practices goals into new-plant planning... |
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Breaking Down Manufacturing Walls with 3-D Simulation Virtualization allows engineers to view their products from concept to design, testing and manufacturability, all at once. |
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Advanced Manufacturing: Where is America Today? Manufacturers are using a combination of technologies, processes and education to promote a new era of U.S. manufacturing that can't be easily replicated by competitors. |
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Executive View -- Get Smart Rockwell Automation CEO pushes for more federal funding to support 'smart manufacturing' breakthroughs. |
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Continuous Improvement -- Are You Reinventing Wheels? Lean manufacturing has been around for more than a century - so what are you doing to make it relevant to your company today? |
The Motley Fool
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Rising Star Buy: A Ford Home Run Dropping incentives, growing sales, dropping debt. What's not to like? |
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How a Global IT Revamp Is Fueling Ford's Turnaround Ford's revamped IT department provides global shared services and is deploying consumer tech in new vehicles to cut costs, attract customers and restore profit. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2003
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Ford's Formidable Challenge Chairman and CEO William Clay Ford Jr. faces environmental, manufacturing, marketing and financial issues as he continues to remodel Ford Motor Co. in its centennial year. Is he up to the job? |
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Lean, Green & Smart What's in store for tomorrow's factories? Process intelligence tools, outmaneuvering costly regulations and machine tools that learn their lessons well. |
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2007 IW/MPI Census: Who's Using CAD, CAE? Half of all U.S. manufacturing facilities employ CAD or CAE systems. |
The Motley Fool
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Is Ford Back? Has Ford, the venerable automaker, finally completed its turnaround? |
The Motley Fool
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Rising Star Buy: Ford Don't look a gift horse in the mouth when the market hands you an opportunity. |
Fast Company
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Ford's Escape Route The new Escape Hybrid was the most complex project in Ford's history and maybe its most important product since the Model T. To pull it off, the company had to act in some very un-Ford-like ways. |
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Factories Go South. So Does Pay Mexico's auto industry is booming, but parts outsourcing is keeping a lid on wages. |
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Ford: Will Slow And Steady Win The Race? As new COO, James Padilla has to keep the improvements coming at Ford. |
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Nissan Cracks Down on Server Sprawl Nissan cuts its use of servers from 350 to 44, lightening the load on its environmental and budget footprint. |
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Letters To The Editor For April 2007 Success in manufacturing depends on production that is close to the customer coupled with talented employees. |
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Moving Man A 'manufacturing guy' takes the wheel of Ford's material planning and logistics operation and emphasizes cross-functional collaboration. |
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Avatars Invade Military Training Systems The influence of video games on military training has been substantial, and the military's interest in avatars -- for soldiers and other actors in simulations -- is growing. |
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Fighting Through the Worst of Times Armed with tough-minded strategies, Ford, Hormel Foods and General MetalWorks battled the recession and have their companies poised for solid growth. |
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Manufacturing Is Not For the Faint at Heart -- IndustryWeek's 2008 Salary Survey Comments When asked to comment on the state of the industry, manufacturing managers throughout the United States share a common concern that the odds seem to be stacked against them. |
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The Motley Fool
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Another Big Quarter for Ford The rich get richer as the automaker posts its best third quarter in 20 years. |
The Motley Fool
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Were Ford's Earnings Good or Bad? A mixed bag of good and bad (but not too bad) from the Blue Oval. |
