HEBRON, KY—Jacobs Automation and Rockwell Automation are collaborating to offer closer integration between the Jacobs’ iTRAK automation platform and the Rockwell’s Integrated Architecture system.
WASHINGTON—Orders for durable goods in the United States rose in December for an unprecedented fourth consecutive month, indicating manufacturing will keep improving in 2013.
NEW YORK—Most U.S. manufacturing executives anticipate revenue growth in the year ahead, and plans to hire new employees are at the highest level since mid-2006, according to the latest Manufacturing Barometer from PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
SEATTLE—In interviews with The Associated Press, a dozen former Boeing engineers, designers and managers question the wisdom of the company’s tight schedule and never-before-tried plan to assemble a plane from parts made around the globe.
NEW DELHI, India—The Indian government is offering up to $4 billion in incentives to the world’s electronics manufacturers to set up new assembly plants in the country.
GUANGZHOU, China—In an irony of China’s growing middle class, factory jobs go begging while many educated young workers are unemployed or underemployed. A national survey of urban residents showed that among people in their early 20s, those with a college degree were four times as likely to be unemployed as those with only an elementary school education.
DHAKA, Bangladesh—In the latest blow to Bangladesh’s garment industry, seven workers died Saturday after a fire swept through a factory here not long after seamstresses had returned from a lunch break. Workers said supervisors had locked one of the factory exits, forcing some people to jump out of windows to save their lives.
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