MRC News
What’s So Cool About Manufacturing at Piramal
Article courtesy of LVB.Com Off The Clock: Manufacturer hosts students from Northampton Middle School Piramal Critical Care of Hanover Township, Northampton County, a manufacturer of liquid anesthesia, hosted eighth-grade students and teachers from Northampton Middle...
Manufacturing Pipeline Initiative Update – Enrollments Up!
Manufacturing Pipeline Initiative Update - Enrollments Up! Visit www.dreamitdoitpa.com and the Dream It Do It PA Facebook Page for videos, photos and complete details and the "What's So Cool About Manufacturing?" Student Video Contest. Winners will be announced on...
2016 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index
United States expected to lead as the top manufacturing nation by 2020 according to a Deloitte report on December 4, 2015, 08:59 am MST WASHINGTON, Dec. 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --The United States is expected to become the most competitive manufacturing nation over the...
Interest in Reshoring Stays Strong
U.S. Is Now the Preferred Location for New Factory Capacity to Serve U.S. Market as Interest in Reshoring Stays Strong In Sharp Reversal From Just Two Years Ago, Almost a Third of U.S. Executives at Large Manufacturers Say They Plan to Add U.S. Production Over the...
Dream It. Do It. PA Kicks off Year 3 of Student Video Contest
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 29, 2015 Contact: Jade Cortez Jade@sahlcomm.com 484-332-8908 Dream It. Do It. PA Kicks Off Year Three of ‘What’s So Cool About Manufacturing?’ MRC Continues Movement to...
Manufacturing & Trade Inventories & Sales April 2015
June 11, 2015 U.S. Census Bureau News Sales. The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that the combined value of distributive trade sales and manufacturers’ shipments for April, adjusted for seasonal and trading-day differences but not for price changes, was estimated...
Is Apple Creating “The Ultimate Car” Supply Chain?
By Dawn Chmielewski June 2, 2015 Supply Chain 24/7 Speaking at the Code Conference, Apple's operations chief Jeff Williams dropped the biggest hint yet that the firm is developing a car - "The car is the ultimate mobile device." They call him Tim Cook’s Tim Cook....
Job Growth Surges, Wages Push Higher in May
by Lucia Mutikani Reuters Jun 5th 2015 8:35AM WASHINGTON -- U.S. job growth accelerated sharply in May and wages picked up, signs of momentum in the economy that bolster prospects for an interest rate hike in September. Nonfarm payrolls increased 280,000 last month,...
Rockwell brings factory-automation tools to smartphones, tablets
by John Schmid of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin Journal Sentinal ... May 30, 2015 .... Software that transmits real-time data onto smartphones and tablets is making it possible for plant managers to monitor their production network from anywhere on the factory floor — and...
The Need for Training Within Industry
The Need for Training Within Industry by Jamie Flinchbaugh | Co-founder and Partner, Lean Learning Center in Novi, Mich. This Industry Week article explains that Training Within Industry (TWI) remains an effective but underutilized method for implementing standard...
Meet the New Generation of Robots
Meet the New Generation of Robots for Manufacturing They are nimbler, lighter and work better with humans. They might even help bring manufacturing back to the U.S. By JAMES R. HAGERTY | June 2, 2015 11:08 p.m. ET This WSJ article is about a new generation of robots...
PA Declares Industrial Resource Center Appreciation Day
Pa General Assembly Declares May 12th, 2015 as “Industrial Resource Center Appreciation Day” in Pennsylvania For Immediate Release: May 12, 2015 Manufacturers Resource Center 961 Marcon Boulevard, Suite 200 Allentown, PA 18109 Phone: 610-628-4640 Harrisburg, PA – In...