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    Strategic Planning & Execution

    Tariff Hikes, Emerging Tech, Trade Wars: Outstrategizing the Competition in 2025

    Jan. 3, 2025
    Navigating the global economy is increasingly complex, but there are ways to simplify doing business.
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    Technology and IIoT

    Coolest Things That I Saw at the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show

    Jan. 30, 2025
    Senior Technology Editor Dennis Scimeca discovered technologies that ran from the practical, to the impressive and the just plain weird.
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    Nano Dimension Fires CEO Amid Struggles in Additive Manufacturing Space

    Dec. 27, 2024
    CEO Yoav Stern ousted at Nano Dimension as merger with Desktop Metal enters a possible courtroom fight.
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    Biggest Manufacturing Technology Wins of 2024

    Dec. 26, 2024
    The technologies that made the greatest impacts and the leaders who implemented the tech.
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    Technology and IIoT

    Intel’s Risky Decision and Why Manufacturing Pay Plunged: IW’s Weekly Reads

    Dec. 20, 2024
    Also, the IW manufacturing community showed interest in augmented and virtual reality technologies, and trade and tariff topics continued to attract attention.

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    US Firms Up $6.2 Billion Micron Funding to Boost Chipmaking

    Dec. 10, 2024
    The Micron investment helps bring development and production of advanced memory semiconductor technology to U.S. shores, said Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
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    Design Thinking: Human-Centered, Data-Driven Manufacturing

    Dec. 2, 2024
    The five-step empathize, define, ideate, prototype, text planning process can translate data into action in manufacturing.
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    Intel, Commerce Department Finalize $7.9 Billion Chip Making Grant

    Nov. 27, 2024
    More than two years since the signing of the CHIPs Act, funding is finally flowing to some of the mega-projects that the semiconductor bill intended to support.
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    Nestlé Purina’s Robot Dog Pack

    Nov. 22, 2024
    The quadruped Spot robots support predictive maintenance programs and met ROI in half the predicted amount of time.