All the headlines from our Manufacturing Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 10 2017 // Victims of the Las Vegas shooting sued manufacturers of bump fire stocks, accusing them of negligence. A dozen bump stocks, which allow a semi-automatic weapon to fire with the rapidity of an automatic weapon, were found...
Oct 4 2017 // A Portland-based manufacturer of commercial vehicles is performing trials on Oregon highways of tractor-trailers with driver-assist technology.The Bend Bulletin reported Daimler Trucks North America is testing the same...
Oct 2 2017 // A Kentucky jury has awarded $21.7 million to the families of three people who died in a June 2013 medical helicopter crash.A jury in Clay County decided the award Thursday after a three-week trial and five hours of...
Sep 26 2017 // A Chicago manufacturer of rigid metal, plastic, and hybrid containers faces $503,380 in proposed penalties after inspectors from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)...
Sep 25 2017 // An Ohio factory that makes footballs for the National Football League has been fined by federal regulators over workplace safety violations.Wilson Sporting Goods is facing more than $65,000 in fines after two inspections...
Sep 22 2017 // At Philip Tulkoff’s food-processing plant in Baltimore, machines grind tough horseradish roots into puree. “If you put your arm in the wrong place,” the owner says, “and you’re not paying...
Sep 20 2017 // The hurricanes that battered Texas and Florida have likely spawned the worst disaster-created housing crisis since Hurricane Katrina left hundreds of thousands of Gulf Coast residents without homes more than a decade...
Sep 18 2017 // Two years ago, a robot crushed a 22-year-old man to death at a Volkswagen AG factory in Germany after the maintenance worker became trapped in an area usually off-bound to humans. While this type of tragedy is still...
Sep 11 2017 // New Mexico has sued eight opioid manufacturers and wholesale distributors, becoming the latest state or local government to file a lawsuit seeking to hold corporations accountable for a national drug addiction epidemic.New...
Sep 8 2017 // International insurer HDI Global Insurance Company (HDI) has introduced a new cyber product, Cyber+ Smart, designed to support the manufacturing sector.Cyber+ Smart is designed for U.S. enterprises with annual revenues of...
Aug 25 2017 // Britain’s economy is beginning to feel the Brexit pinch, or perhaps given the strong performance of the rest of the world economy, it should be punch.After a prolonged period of relatively benign economic numbers...
Aug 21 2017 // Self-driving cars will begin taking test laps this December on the site of a famous World War II airplane factory in Michigan where Rosie the Riveter helped produce a shiny B-24 Liberator bomber every hour more than seven...
Aug 16 2017 // A blackout caused by a blunder at Taiwan’s biggest gas-fired plant is the latest challenge to an electricity grid recently pushed to its limit and to President Tsai Ing-wen’s efforts to reshape the...
Jul 31 2017 // State regulators have fined a northern Indiana recreational vehicle manufacturer $10,000 for safety violations discovered following a worker’s April death.Fifty-four-year-old Ricky Schlabach died of blunt force...
Jul 25 2017 // Federal officials have sued Champion Fiberglass Inc., a Houston-area manufacturing company, saying the company violated federal anti-discrimination laws by engaging in systemic discrimination against non-Hispanic...
Jul 25 2017 // Australia’s consumer watchdog said on Monday it was urgently seeking information from the government regulator and car manufacturers after a magazine reported that recalled Takata air bags were being replaced by...
Jul 24 2017 // Ride-hailing provider Lyft Inc., emboldened by public stumbles by larger rival Uber Technologies Inc., is taking the leap into developing its own fully autonomous vehicles.Lyft is opening a self-driving vehicle development...
Jul 18 2017 // It was still dark the morning Ruperto Vazquez-Carrera began his shift at Sunrise Organic Dairy in Idaho.It was mid-February 2016. A winter heat wave had melted snow and ice overnight, flooding part of the rural Jerome...
Jul 10 2017 // A virtual grin arose on the face of Harvey Rosenfield with the mention of Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics.The mention was made during a phone call, but the overwhelming satisfaction of a smile was easily...
Jul 6 2017 // Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter has joined the ranks of state attorneys general who have sued manufacturers of opioid pain medication, alleging that deceptive marketing campaigns by the drug makers have fueled the...