Eissmann Automotive to expand Alabama operation 200 new jobs
By Made In Alabam a News Center
June 8, 2016
PELL CITY, Alabama – German auto supplier Eissmann Automotive will invest $14.5 million to expand its St. Clair County facility with a 130,000-square-foot building and advanced manufacturing equipment for a new production line, officials said today.
Eissmann, which has expanded its Pell City facility six times since opening a decade ago, will hire 200 additional workers as part of the expansion project. It will also introduce a new manufacturing process that is currently performed only at Eissmann facilities in Slovakia and China.
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Inside the Works: Boeing’s New R&D Center
Text By NANCY MANN JACKSON
June 2016
This July, Boeing is celebrating its 100th year by developing new products and services “for the next 100 years,” says Steve Swaine, director of Support & Analytics Technology, who leads Boeing Research & Technology Alabama in Huntsville.
In early 2015, BR&T Alabama opened in Huntsville – one of five new research centers. Swaine has hired about 300 engineers and scientists to work in the labs, conducting research and development projects to support Boeing’s defense, space and commercial businesses. “There is amazing talent in this region and we are really benefiting from being here,” Swaine says.
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Supplier Collaboration is Critical to Manufacturing Success
By Ruben Harris , VP, supply management, Pratt & Whitney
Jun 8, 2016
A new report from Washington, D.C.-based think tank Lexington Institute concludes there are clear-cut lessons about survival and in fact, growth, from those old-line manufacturers who have evolved and thrived in the brutally competitive global 21st century marketplace. The report, “The New Landscape in American Manufacturing,” cites my company, Pratt & Whitney, the 90-year old jet engine manufacturing unit of United Technologies, as one example, as well as Boeing, Caterpillar and Ford.
The report found that these companies continue to be successful because they embraced the practice of continuous improvement, enabling them to weather the disruption caused by globalization and digitization that caught fire and impacted so many old-line companies in the 1990s and still does into the second decade of the 21st century.
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