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Infosys Posts 24% Profit Gain as Outsourcing Demand Increases – Bloomberg

October 12, 2012

Infosys Ltd. (INFO) fell the most in three months in Mumbai trading as India’s second-largest software services exporter cut its sales-growth forecast and said higher wages and currency fluctuations will hurt profitability. The shares declined 5.4 percent to 2,395.35 rupees at the close, the biggest drop since July 12. Bangalore-based Infosys cut its forecast for […]

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Robotic take-up rises as manufacturing becomes reshored – Manufacturing Digital

October 12, 2012

Follow @Jonny_Editor_MD Written by Nigel Platt, Sales & Marketing Director, ABB UK Robotics business The latest edition of Manufacturing Digital is available now The most recent set of statistics from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) seems to indicate a continued glowing future for industrial robots. The statistics show that 165,000 robots were sold in 2011, […]

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Karen Burns weighs in on Californian manufacturing – Manufacturing Digital

October 12, 2012

Follow @Jonny_Editor_MD The latest edition of Manufacturing Digital is available now MD: In your experience, what are some of the challenges currently being faced by manufacturers? One of the biggest things we see locally concerns the availability of the workforce. Many pockets of California are very expensive to live in, so sourcing people willing to work […]

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Zachary Hubbard | China’s free pass must be rescinded – The Tribune-Democrat

October 12, 2012

 The online CIA World Factbook contains a comparison of the “Current Account Balance” for the world’s countries. The figures “record a country’s net balance in goods and services plus net earnings from rents, interest, profits and dividends, and net transfer payments (such as pension funds and worker remittances) to and from the rest of the […]

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GM creates IT center in Warren for 1500 software developers – semichiganstartup

October 12, 2012

General Motors efforts to onshore more of its IT work are starting to surface in Metro Detroit now that the automaker plans to open an Information Technology Innovation Center in Warren. The plan is to bring in about 1,500 IT and software professionals over the next four years. The new workers […]

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Utah tax incentives prompt 2 companies to pledge jobs – Salt Lake Tribune

October 11, 2012

The board of directors of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development on Thursday approved tax incentives for two companies that pledged to create as many as 424 jobs in […]

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Do Entrepreneurs Overlook Manufacturing? – Automation World

October 11, 2012

By David Greenfield, Media & Events Director Recommended Reading and those budgets are ripe for the plucking. For help in better understanding why the B2B sector, and manufacturing in particular, is so largely ignored by entrepreneurs, I spoke with Arnav Anand, research scholar, instructor and entrepreneur-in-residence at UC […]

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Local Workshop Explores Reshoring U.S. Manufacturing Jobs – MFRTech (press release)

October 11, 2012

Ohio workshop to explore reshoring U.S. Manufacturing jobs. Companies have reshored about 50,000 manufacturing jobs, which is 10% of the total U.S. manufacturing jobs added since the low of Jan. 2010. Universal use of the Reshoring Initiative’s Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Estimator software would bring back about 25% of what has been offshored. Dayton Region […]

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GM creates IT center in Warren for 1500 software developers – Metromode Media

October 11, 2012

General Motors efforts to onshore more of its IT work are starting to surface in Metro Detroit now that the automaker plans to open an Information Technology Innovation Center in Warren. The plan is to bring in about 1,500 IT and software professionals over the next four years. The new workers […]

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Making it in Massachusetts – CommonWealth magazine

October 11, 2012

Reports of the death of manufacturing here, and across the country, have been greatly exaggerated. There is no going back to our industrial heyday, but a new study says manufacturing has a solid future in Massachusetts. In fact, one of the biggest concerns is a possible shortage of trained workers.   when the great recession […]

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