ASHEVILLE, NC-Moog Music will transform four old buildings here into a top-flight manufacturing facility and showroom. The company plans to spend $2.5 million to renovate the structures into offices and assembly lines for synthesizers, guitars and other electronic instruments. The company plans to add 10 to 15 jobs over the next three years. MORE
SANAND, India-Tata Motors inaugurated a factory Wednesday to produce its super-cheap compact Nano car. Production will ramp up in phases to 250,000 cars annually. MORE
KANSAS CITY, MO-Ford will stop producing the Mercury brand by the end of this year. While Fords overall sales are up 23 percent, sales for the Mercury brand are down 10.7 percent. MORE
CLEARWATER BEACH, FL-Honda Motor Co. believes in investing in staff and expertise to tackle in-house automation projects. Such investment can produce big returns in the form of cost savings and a competitive edge. Can your company do the same? Find out this fall, when Cory Hauberg, division manager of Honda Engineering, speaks at the Assembly Summit Oct. 18-20 in Clearwater Beach, FL. MORE
SUMTER, SC-A bearings manufacturing plant here will add 75 jobs as it expands its operations. Kaydon Corp. is investing nearly $9 million the project. MORE
TAIPEI-Battling to stem a spate of factory suicides in China, Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn is raising the pay of its Chinese assembly line workers by 30 percent. MORE
CLEARWATER BEACH, FL-Some 70 percent of a product’s cost are locked in during the design stage-or are they? Phil Alvaro, an advanced manufacturing engineer at Harris Corp., can show you data-driven methods for reducing variation, mitigating risk and preventing faulty designs. Pick his brain at the Assembly Summit Oct. 18-20 in Clearwater Beach, FL. MORE
BEIJING-A strike at an enormous Honda transmission factory in southeastern China has suddenly and unexpectedly turned into a symbol of this nation’s struggle with income inequality, rising inflation and soaring property prices. MORE
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