Displaying 41-50 of 679 results for

What comes to mind when you think of California? Is it Hollywood or Silicon Valley? Disneyland, perhaps?

With all the changes in technology over the past 20 years, many buzz words and phrases have arisen.

The West Coast is known for many things, including Hollywood movies, juicy oranges, sandy beaches, snow-capped mountains, redwood forests, a rugged coastline, crashing surf and thousands of wineries.

North Kingstown, RI – July 30, 2019 – Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division announced it has selected the Greater Toronto Area for the site of its new Canadian headquarters in Oakville, Ontario.

This is a guest blog written for WESTEC by WISER Systems 

“Location, location, location.” “Timing is everything.” We most often use these maxims in relation to the real estate business, but they also apply to the manufacturing industry in general and the Manufacturing Technology Series in particular.

WESTEC, produced by SME and AMT, is an industry-leading west coast manufacturing trade show.

Today’s supply chain is global. Prior to 2020, supply chain leaders laughed when they said, “When local supply chains sneeze the global process catches a cold.” 

Virag Saksena’s whisky, which he makes at 10th Street Distillery in San Jose, is sitting in barrels ready to bottle, but his hands have been tied for months due to the shelter-in-place order that prohibited nonessential manufacturers from operating starting in mid-March.

While the possibility of Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) building a new factory in Texas is gaining traction, the automaker is also focused on its current U.S. facility in Fremont, California. Electrek.co, a website that follows the electric transportation industry, is reporting that in addition to the company being in the process of upgrading the factory, it’s also likely to shut down the factory temporarily — possibly by the end of July — as it prepares to open a new assembly line there.