Manufacturing Round Up for Week of 2/26/16
February 26, 2016
How the Internet of Things is Forging Partnerships Between 2 Growing Tech Companies “Two Albany, New York, companies seeing major growth in the Internet of
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Top Challenges Faced By Small And Medium-Sized Manufacturers
February 25, 2016
How much does your manufacturing company know about NIST MEP? And much does NIST MEP seem to know about you? Recently, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) asked small-to-medium manufacturers to predict their top three challenges over the next three years. Do the answers that these companies provided reflect what challenges you?
How Will 3D Printing Affect Your Supply Chain?
February 23, 2016
It’s trendy to talk about 3D printing as a “disruptive” technology. Yes, additive manufacturing changes the way that we make things. Instead of subtracting materials to shape objects, manufacturers build products in layers. But 3D printing isn’t just about using a different equipment set. Additive manufacturing, according to one national security expert, could mean retooling your supply chain for a strategic upheaval.
Manufacturing Round Up for the Week of 02/19/15
February 19, 2016
Drug Developer Triples Payroll in Rensselaer County “Blockbuster sales of its drug for treating a leading cause of adult blindness have led Regeneron Pharmaceuticals to
How to Overcome Obstacles to Innovation
February 17, 2016
What’s keeping you from becoming more innovative? In a recent article for Harvard Business Review (HBR), authors Tony McCaffrey and Jim Pearson suggest that our perceptions are the problem. Specifically, the authors cite three attitudes – functional fixedness, design fixation, and goal fixedness – that limit the way we think. Yet McCaffrey and Pearson also claim it’s possible to overcome these obstacles. Here’s how.
Manufacturing Round Up for the Week of 02/12/16
February 12, 2016
Solar energy is a big deal in New York. But how does the state stack up against the rest of the country in terms of jobs? As of December, New York had the fourth-most solar power-related jobs in the U.S. with 8,250, almost three-quarters of which were installation-based.
How to Sell Industry 4.0 to Your IT Organization
February 11, 2016
Would you like to cut product development and assembly costs? Would you like to do this while improving quality, reducing downtime, boosting morale, and eliminating material shortages? If you want to sell Industry 4.0 to your IT organization, you’ll need to emphasize the real-world benefits of the Internet of Things (IoT).
Manufacturing Round Up for the Week of 02/05/16
February 5, 2016
Insyte Consulting will remain the local Manufacturing Extension Partnership Center, a designation from Empire State Development Corp. which the company has held since 1988. The designation comes with $4.25 million in funding through 2020.
Clean Energy Companies Compete for 76West Dollars
February 4, 2016
For years, New York’s Southern Tier has experienced manufacturing job losses. Now, as part of an economic development initiative called 76West, New York State will help build a clean-energy sector in the 11-county region. From now until March 15, 2016, NYSERDA will accept applications for this $20 million business competition, which includes a $1 million top prize. Which clean-energy companies will compete and win?
