MOBILE, AL—Airbus’ newly hired U.S. manufacturing employees arrived back home in Mobile May 31 after six or more months of training in Hamburg, Germany.
GAINESVILLE, GA—Kubota Manufacturing of America Corp. plans to increase production capacity the U.S. by building a 502,000-square-foot assembly plant and expanding its existing operations here.
FAIRFIELD, CT—A metal sensor housing has become the first 3D-printed part certified by the Federal Aviation Administration to fly inside a commercial jet engine.
FAIRFIELD, CT—Henry Ford was fond of saying that “nothing was particularly hard if you divided it into small jobs.” He followed his own advice, built the world’s first large-scale assembly lines that cranked out millions of Model Ts every year, and left his competitors in the dust. GE engineers are now taking Ford’s advice to the extreme and breaking down the factory into even smaller pieces: bits and bytes.
LONDON—The ‘Poo Bus,’ which is powered by biomethane gas generated from human and household waste, is set to go into regular service on the roads of Britain this month. The bus produces less emissions than traditional diesel-powered buses.
RLS LLC, a Marmon/Berkshire Hathaway company, announces the launch of RLS Refrigeration Press Fittings, the world’s first press-to-connect fittings engineered for high-pressure copper refrigeration connections.
In applications relating to refrigeration, air conditioning and ventilation technology, users frequently notice that the selected fan installed in the device does not run as quietly as expected.
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