CINCINATTI—Local manufacturers are revving up efforts to attract the region’s youngest workers to high-tech factory jobs of the future: Increasingly, they’re offering high-school kids job-shadowing opportunities, scholarships and apprenticeships where students split time between work and school.
ANN ARBOR, MI—Ergonomics consutling firm Humantech has developed an app for the iPhone that enables engineers to determine the NIOSH recommended weight limit for a specific job or task.
KARLSRUHE, Germany—Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have used nanotechnology to develop a fabric that can guide light and sound waves around an object to be hidden.
ESSEN, Germany—European utility RWE Group has installed a superconducting cable between two transformer stations here. At 1 kilometer long, it is the world’s longest superconducting cable.
FORT COLLINS, CO—Robert Harvey disputes the claim that robots are job killers. In fact, the sales manager at custom automation supplier CBW Automation says it’s the opposite—robots keep U.S. companies competitive.
ERIE, PA—Accuride, a manufacturer and supplier of commercial vehicle components, is planning to invest $75 million this year to improve its manufacturing processes.
ESSEN, Germany—European utility RWE Group has installed a superconducting cable between two transformer stations here. At 1 kilometer long, it is the world’s longest superconducting cable.
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