Digital Monitoring Products (DMP, Springfield, MO) specializes in the design and manufacture of network security systems, like those used in bank ATMs and retail stores. A privately held company, it is one of the last electronic control panel firms that manufactures all of its products in the United States.
Clutch, brake, drive train and filter manufacturer Hilliard Corp. (Elmira, NY) is an independently owned company that has traditionally worked in low volumes with a small product mix.
Oddly enough, programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and I have a few things in common. We're both over 40 years old, and we've both increased our intelligence to handle a greater number and variety of tasks.
Magneti Marelli Powertrain S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) manufactures transmission and engine control components for automakers around the world. Customers include companies like Renault, Ford Motor Co., Audi, DaimlerChrysler and Toyota.
Farris Automated Systems LLC (Stoughton, WI) manufactures custom, turnkey automation systems for use throughout North America. The company specializes in pick-and-place and assembly applications for the plastics, packaging and automotive industries.
Before everyone called it lean, that collection of practices and ideas, mostly adopted from Toyota, was commonly referred to as just-in-time manufacturing. Books like Robert "Doc" Hall's Attaining Manufacturing Excellence, published in 1986, opened our eyes to the concept.
Electric and electronic connector company Harwin Inc. (Salem, NH) manufactures an extensive range of standard and custom products for the military, aerospace, medical, automotive and consumer electronics industries.
As Yogi Berra famously observed, it's déjà vu all over again. One year ago we noted that despite rhetoric about a "jobless recovery," the available data showed that as the United States emerged from recession, the economy was also recovering jobs.
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