Industry News

News • January 6, 2020

Walter acquires Melin Tool

Walter has reached an agreement to acquire the Melin Tool Co., a privately owned, Cleveland-based company and manufacturer of solid-carbide and HSS end mills, drills and countersinks. Melin is a growing company, supported by innovations in the solid-carbide endmill product family making the acquisition a strategic fit to increase Walter's milling business in North America.

News • January 6, 2020

Solar Atmospheres Southeast hires Tom Gundic as plant manager

Solar Atmospheres announces the addition of Tom Gundic to its Greenville, South Carolina, facility. Gundic has accepted the position of plant manager, bringing with him over 14 years of vacuum heat treating and brazing experience, with significant time spent leading teams in the highly demanding environment of Nadcap and AS9100 quality systems.

News • January 5, 2020

Hyperion completes acquisition of AFC Hartmetall

Worthington, Ohio-based Hyperion Materials & Technologies, a global leader in developing hard and superhard materials for a wide range of demanding applications, on Jan. 1 completed the acquisition of AFC Hartmetall, a premium cemented carbide tool blank manufacturer, marking the close of the complementary agreement announced in September.

News • January 5, 2020

North American Tool Corp. appoints Steve Mayse director of manufacturing

North American Tool Corp., South Beloit, Illinois, has announced the appointment of Steve Mayse as director of manufacturing.

News • December 26, 2019 • Daniel Carranco

Top 5 reasons to automate manufacturing

Manufacturers are looking to lower costs and increase speed without sacrificing quality. This means getting more done in less time with less manpower, less scrap and fewer mistakes. To do this, the manufacturing industry is investing more in automation.

News • December 26, 2019

The end of Trump’s “manufacturing renaissance”?

The manufacturing industry got a huge boost from President Donald Trump's election, seeing a groundswell of job gains during his first year in office. But the trade war with China has undone that progress. Jobs in the sector have stalled out and turned negative in 2019.

News • December 23, 2019

U.S. manufacturers won’t easily move out of China

U.S. companies aren't likely to pack up manufacturing operations in China and move back home amid the trade war. That's because supply chains are "very difficult to put together and equally difficult to disentangle," said Stephen Roach, senior fellow at Yale University.

News • December 23, 2019

The digital thread that weaves production together

Smart manufacturing, or Industry 4.0, is transforming manufacturing back into an economic powerhouse. Industry 4.0 helps companies digitally transform manufacturing operations to provide new capabilities, reduce costs, empower teams, improve decision-making and create better ways of doing business. An integral part of smart manufacturing is the concept of the digital thread, which is key to capturing and managing the information associated with manufacturing operations.

News • December 23, 2019

U.S. manufacturing is no longer a sad song by Bruce Springsteen

Factory work used to be dirty, dangerous and bleak. Technology has changed that, creating a manufacturing sector that looks radically different.

News • December 23, 2019

The impact of robots on jobs

New robots will be able to generate savings in manufacturing and plug short-term gaps while helping create future jobs.

News • December 23, 2019

Securing multicloud manufacturing systems in a zero-trust world

Private equity firms are snapping up manufacturing companies at a quick pace, setting off a merger and acquisition gold rush while leaving multicloud manufacturing systems unprotected in a zero-trust world.

News • December 23, 2019

How to optimize a workforce

It's hard to believe that the phrase "war for talent" was coined more than 20 years ago. Today, the fight to attract and retain talented employees rages on in virtually every industry — and manufacturing is no exception.