Tag: Manufacturing
The Global Car Reckoning Is Here. Far Too Many Auto Companies Don’t Have a Plan
Houchois describes Tesla as a reluctant carmaker, forced to spend industrial levels of capital updating a physical product from which software levels of margin...
Ford’s Answer to China: A Completely New Way of Making Cars
Doug Field, Ford's chief EV, digital and design officer, who formerly ran Apple's car program and was led the development of the Model 3...
Apple CEO Tim Cook gifts glass and 24-karat gold plaque to Trump
As if a $100 billion promise to invest in U.S. manufacturing wasn’t enough, Apple CEO Tim Cook gave President Donald Trump another token of...
Everything You Wanted to Know About China’s Auto Industry Takeover
What is the future of cars? For one thing, after substantial government support and poaching of top Western talent, China’s car industry is about...
This creative CEO’s tips for new hires’ success: Lose the tie and pretend you don’t know anything
Crayola CEO Pete Ruggiero stepped into the top job over a year ago, after spending 27 years at the art-supply company best known for...
Automakers Are Canceling Plans for New EVs. Here’s a List of What’s Been Killed So Far
The year 2025 is only half over. But for some of global automakers’ most ambitious electric vehicle projects, the In Memoriam segment is already...
Siemens’ CTO says AI can help address the U.S. manufacturing industry’s big skills gap
A key policy goal of President Donald Trump’s administration is bringing jobs back to American factories, though the effort has been mired in a...
Apple is pre-bunkering against China with its $500 million deal to buy American rare-earth magnets
The multiyear deal, which includes a $200 million upfront payment, will see Apple source American-made rare-earth magnets from MP’s new manufacturing lines in Fort...
What Makes a Car Lovable? It’s Not the Tech, It’s the Cup Holders
Nearly 100,000 car buyers of 2025 model-year autos were asked what they thought of their gleaming new rides. The results are revealing, to say...
Crayola’s now-CEO leaned in to automation when everyone else was offshoring and now he’s reaping the rewards
Two decades ago, the name of the game in U.S. manufacturing was offshoring. Just as China was entering the World Trade Organization and ramping...
