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It’s Silicon Valley and Detroit, not Silicon Valley vs Detroit (Pt. II)

QAD

In “ It’s Silicon Valley and Detroit, not Silicon Valley vs Detroit (Pt. In Part II, we will touch on the ways in which automotive players are addressing these changes through collaboration and the innovations that can stem from it. Examples include: BMW Consortium. Innovation is About Working Together.

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Cliff Morris | The State of Manufacturing

4WL Consulting

So I’m from Detroit, you may not have known that. Both my grandfathers worked the line on the River Rouge plant in Detroit. Right then, straight out of college, I worked for Ford and, even while I was in college, I worked in one of the manufacturing facilities in the suburban Detroit area called the Woodhaven Stamping Plant.

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Cliff Morris | The State of Manufacturing

4WL Consulting

So I’m from Detroit, you may not have known that. Both my grandfathers worked the line on the River Rouge plant in Detroit. Right then, straight out of college, I worked for Ford and, even while I was in college, I worked in one of the manufacturing facilities in the suburban Detroit area called the Woodhaven Stamping Plant.

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Investing in Manufacturing Innovation & Competitiveness: Will the next Silicon Valley be located in the United States?

GlobalTranz

Editor's Note : In this guest blog post from Adams Nager, of ITIF (Information Technology & Innovation Foundation) , he stresses the importance of fostering innovation and spurring competitiveness of American Manufacturing by focusing on more R&D from both the public and private sectors.

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Overcoming Automotive Logistics Challenges – Part II

BlueYonder

The biggest savings won’t be from trying to make transportation cheaper at a plant, but looking at why logistics cost are so high for that plant. By looking more broadly than just how can we reduce the transportation or warehousing costs, they will find the big savings, the billion dollar savings.

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Celebrities and STEM Education

Enterra Insights

For example, professional golfer Phil Mickelson and his wife Amy teamed with ExxonMobil to establish The Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers Academy which trains teachers of third through fifth graders in innovative teaching methods and hands-on applications of math and science. Free transportation within 2 miles. Free uniforms.

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Cyber Security in the Supply Chain a Top Priority Among Business Leaders

RFgen

While the WMATA is not strictly an issue in a supply chain, it does provide an excellent example of what happens if a supply chain is not properly monitored. Properly updating the system as needed and careful monitoring may have spared the public transportation giant a lot of time, money and embarrassment.