These days, manufacturers of all stripes are taking a closer at their energy consumption as a potential source of cost savings—even manufacturers of the largest, most expensive products in the world.
The General Dynamics Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, builds destroyers and other warships for the U.S. Navy. Although one destroyer can cost upwards of $640 million, that didn’t stop the defense giant from examining the cost of installing one of the smallest and lowest tech parts on the boat: the studs, pins, brackets and other fasteners welded to frames, walls and bulkheads.