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Alfa-Laval Separation Inc.’s (Warminster, PA) manufacturing plant layout did not make productive use of floor space. When Alfa acquired Sharples Inc., the need for a more efficient layout became even more essential.

Bombardier Transportation (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is using Tecnomatix Technologies Ltd.’s (Herzeliya, Israel) eMPower quality software at its site in Derby, U.K.

When Gilbarco Inc. (Greensboro, NC) set out to retool its lead product 5 years ago, its primary motivations were customer convenience and manufacturing efficiency.

Indian Motorcycle Corp. (IMC—Gilroy, CA) was formed in 1998 to relaunch an American icon.

Siemens Dematic Electronics Assembly Systems (Norcross, GA) provides complete circuit board assembly systems—from screen printing to solder ovens—along with comprehensive customer support.

When the engineers designing Segway’s (Manchester, NH) Human Transporter (HT) needed to shield out electromagnetic interference (EMI), they chose Ecoplate metallic conformal coating from Chometrics (Woburn, MA).

The business strategy du jour is the makeover. That’s where a profitable company that isn’t exciting is transformed into a new company with a lot more pizzazz and a lot more profit potential.

Amid shrieks from critics, the Bush administration announced that it has loosened industrial air pollution rules.

China’s economy is booming. It grew a year-on-year 8.1 percent in the third quarter, with retail sales up 9.1 percent in September.

Researchers at BASF Aktiengesellschaft AG (Ludwigshafen, Germany) have developed a new way of joining molded plastic and sheet metal.