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Posts Tagged ‘Manufacturing Competitveness’

An amazing article by Andy Grove, co-founder of Intel, that puts things in perspective.  A country’s economy must be based on manufacturing and the jobs it creates.  It’s not about the designing and developing.  It’s about the manufacturing (and the jobs).  End of story.

This one’s worth the read.

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Please pass this one around.

(View the original article here.)   Here is an exerpt:

More than 75 engineers and analysts charged with cost reduction and manufacturing attended the International Forum on Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) in Providence, RI, last month hosted by Boothroyd dewhurst.   Attendees spent two days learning about the value of cost modeling and how DFMA software has benefited users.   Read the rest of this entry »