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The ASSEMBLY Blog is written by our team of editors and industry experts. It provides thought-provoking opinions on issues and trends in manufacturing, as wells tips, tricks and suggestions for implementing assembly technology.

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Mind the Gap

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February 20, 2008
General Motors has offered to buy out all of its 74,000 hourly workers. Up to 56,000 workers could retire by 2011. That would help GM slash costs and catch up with its foreign rivals, but it would also create a huge knowledge gap on the plant floor.
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Getting What You Pay For

Adam Cort
January 28, 2008
This time it’s the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review’s turn. “Precision Factory Jobs in U.S. go Unfilled” the headline laments. The article then goes on to relate the trials of a precision parts maker in a small town in Pennsylvania that just can’t keep up with demand because of a lack of skilled workers.
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‘Surprise' Winner for Detroit?

Adam Cort
January 22, 2008
Despite the current wailing and gnashing of teeth on Wall Street, there is yet more good news out of Detroit. Turns out at least one of the Big Three U.S. automakers really can make good cars and-surprise! surprise!-when it does, people will actually go out of their way to buy them.
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Here's Comes the 21st Century People's Car

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Austin Weber
January 10, 2008
Tata Motors Ltd. (Mumbai, India) just unveiled the 21st century version of the “people’s car,” the NANO. Ironically, this year also marks the centennial of the original "people's car," the Ford Model T.
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More Evidence of a ‘New' Big Three

Adam Cort
January 8, 2008
When it comes to quality, talk is cheap. A manufacturer’s products ultimately have to walk the walk if they are to convince customers to part with their hard-earned cash. For years, this has been a problem for the Big Three. Quality has become synonymous with carmakers whose headquarters lie outside the United States. However, a recent analysis by Justin Hyde of the Detroit Free Press shows that this, like so much in the automotive industry these days, is changing
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Chinese Plant Starts Mass Production of the $100 Laptop

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John Sprovieri
December 20, 2007

With so much negative news lately about low-cost manufacturing in China, here’s a bit of good news: Mass production of the XO laptop computer-the so-called $100 laptop designed by One Laptop Per Child (OLPC, Cambridge, MA)-began last month at Quanta Computer Inc.’s factory in Changshu, China.

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In Praise of "Made in the USA"

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Austin Weber
December 19, 2007
When a Chinese-made cookie press breaks down on the countertop assembly line, a trusty old product from Pennsylvania comes to the rescue and saves a Christmas tradition..
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Window-Shopping, Robot Style

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Austin Weber
December 17, 2007
Have you heard the one about the three robots hanging out in a department store window? Believe it or not, it's not a joke.
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Does Automaking Mix With Religion?

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Austin Weber
December 14, 2007
The largest automaker in Iran, Iran Khodro Industrial Group, has just proposed that Islamic nations manufacture a “collective brand” of car to boost their economies, reduce dependency on Western countries and meet increasing local demand.
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Assembly Outsourcing 3.0

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Austin Weber
November 15, 2007
A recent announcement from two German companies pushes the concept of assembly outsourcing and supply chain management to an entirely new level.
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