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Stryver Manufacturing Inc. (Dayton, OH) designs and builds automated fixtures, custom production machines, material handling equipment and automated weld systems. Its success depends on the company's ability to find dependable, low-cost custom components with consistent lead times.

It's often difficult for people to understand that you can't improve what you don't measure.

Whether for comic relief or political satire, we see "top 10" lists everywhere. The typical list merits no more than a laugh or a groan, if that. But every now and again, an institution with genuine credentials assembles a list that means something.

In August, DaimlerChrysler unveiled the first medium-duty fuel cell vehicle for commercial use in the United States.

In April, President Bush nominated Albert A. Frink Jr. for the new post of assistant secretary of commerce for manufacturing and services-a.k.a., the manufacturing czar.

Ferris Industries (Munnsville, NY), owned by Simplicity Manufacturing, began business in 1909 as the Uebler Milking Machine Co. Today the company builds commercial and residential lawn mowers under the brands Ferris, Simplicity and Snapper.

A key procedure in the assembly of automobile transmissions at the Volkswagen plant in Cordoba, Argentina, involves piecing together the top and bottom pieces of the transmission.

The more expensive your tooling is, the more you'll want crash protection.

Flat panel computer monitors are quickly gaining popularity and market share.

One of the keys to the success of CDs as a medium for data and picture storage is their low cost.