How the Iran war is affecting local manufacturers

Preview this article 1 min Southeast Wisconsin manufacturing executives are on alert for the Iran War’s impact on ...

Bodycote sells longtime New Berlin industrial facility for $2.2M

A longtime New Berlin industrial facility operated by Bodycote Thermal Processing has changed hands in a $2.2 million deal ...
Wall Street Journal

Germany Is Reinventing Itself as a Weapons Factory

BERLIN—As its export model breaks down, Germany is pivoting from cars to cannons—and trying to turn industrial decline into a defense boom. After decades as Europe’s manufacturing engine, the country ...
TechCrunch

Factory hits $1.5B valuation to build AI coding for enterprises

More than three years after the emergence of generative AI, AI-assisted coding remains by far the most popular and lucrative use case for the technology. Although multiple companies — including ...
Warsaw Business Journal

Factory constructed near Ziolonka will be used to build CAMM-ER rockets

In Zielonka near Warsaw, a contract was signed to build a new factory producing CAMM-ER missile systems, a strategic investment for Poland. The facility, part of the Narew air defense program, will ...
Forbes

The AI Factory: What It Is And Why Every CEO Should Care

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. AI factories are emerging as the model for building, deploying and improving AI at scale, ...
CNBC

China's factory activity slumps more than expected in February as holiday disrupts production

The official manufacturing purchasing managers index fell to 49 in February. That marks a second straight month of contraction in PMI. A private survey released the same day, however, showed the ...
Politifact

Is US factory construction at an all-time high?

Factory construction remains at a high level compared with recent history, but most of the increase came under President Joe Biden, and there are signs that that boom has faded under President Donald ...
TechCrunch

This $30M startup built a dog crate-sized robot factory that learns by watching humans

While many robotics companies are building human-sized robots, or working to automate entire factories, MicroFactory is instead trying to think big by building small. San Francisco-based MicroFactory ...
NPR

Russian airstrikes hit a U.S. factory in western Ukraine

KYIV, Ukraine — Two Russian cruise missiles slammed into an American electronics factory in a remote corner of far western Ukraine before dawn Thursday, causing extensive damage and more than a dozen ...
Tennessean

Nissan is closing a major factory in Japan to cut costs. Could American plants be next?

Nissan announced July 15 the company will close its flagship factory just south of Tokyo in Oppama, Japan, the latest edition of the company's cost-cutting efforts. The move is part of a larger ...