manufacturing and engineering in news
3Com goes to Hyderabad
News It also set up a new product design house in Taiwan to manage the design and manufacturing of its low-price, high-volume products. Last year, 3Com said it would focus its internal engineering strength on products such as VoIP and application... [20 Apr 2004]
Oracle teams up with MatrixOne
News According to Wayne Collier, president of engineering, manufacturing and design at US manufacturing consultancy DH Brown Associates, the alliance between MatrixOne and Oracle will help customers and manufacturers to streamline product development... [24 Jun 1999]
Offshoring: Factory workers are next
News For one, suppliers in some developing nations are gaining more sophisticated engineering and design capabilities, and rapid growth is spurring investment in world-class manufacturing capacity in China and elsewhere. [06 Apr 2005]
Corel axes 139 jobs in Ireland
News A core team comprising professional services, manufacturing and distribution will remain at the Dublin facility to support Corel's international customers. Manufacturing for international distribution will continue to be outsourced in Ireland. [06 Sep 2000]
3Com to close Dublin plant
News 3Com will outsource its product manufacturing and eliminate about 1,000 jobs in an effort to cut costs. The network gear maker said it will hand over all of its manufacturing, which currently takes place in Dublin, Ireland, to contract... [11 Sep 2003]
'Get involved in grid' urges UK government
News To hold our own in modern manufacturing we will need to innovate strongly by creating new high-tech manufacturing industries and upgrading traditional sectors such as steel and textiles. Science and innovation minister Lord Sainsbury, who has been... [17 Dec 2003]
Microsoft shuffles its security deck
News DeVaan said on Thursday: "It is going to take effect after Vista RTMs [releases to manufacturing]. The software maker said it will merge its security response unit, its Trustworthy Computing effort and an engineering excellence product in one group... [13 Oct 2006]
Redmond reshuffles more execs
News Dave Cutler, a senior technical fellow, and Amitabh Srivastava, corporate vice president of Cosd, will work directly with Ozzie on developing Live products and services after Vista is released into manufacturing. [02 Aug 2006]
India's outsourcers have China in their hands
News Sending services work to lower-wage nations is in some ways an evolution of the overseas flow of manufacturing work. While China has been a manufacturing leader, India has emerged as the services king, with a number of US companies locating... [04 Feb 2005]
Manufacturing workers get free net access
News The UK arm of the Swiss-Swedish group is the first traditional manufacturing firm in the country to offer such a service in the hope of teaching its staff how to use the web and send emails. Eight thousand UK workers are set to receive free... [29 Mar 2000]
Mannesmann sells manufacturing unit for E9.6bn
News The sale also rules out plans from Mannesmann's CEO Klaus Esser to float the manufacturing unit as an independent company. Mannesmann has agreed the sale of its Atecs Mannesmann automotive and engineering unit to German electronics giant Siemens... [18 Apr 2000]
Sun plunged into darkness
News The company had to close down operations of its manufacturing plant outside San Francisco for two hours, and its sales and engineering unit in San Diego was also affected by the state-wide blackouts. Further concerns were raised in Washington over... [20 Mar 2001]
EU portal to boost industrial research
News AIRTO's members include researchers, engineers and scientists from industries across the manufacturing and engineering sectors. The Association of Independent Research and Technology Organisations (AIRTO) has launched a Web site to allow engineers... [28 Mar 2000]
SolidWorks wins Vermeer CAD contract
News 3D CAD software company, SolidWorks Corporation, has won a contract with Vermeer Manufacturing to deploy engineering software across Vermeer's seven divisions. SolidWorks will install 140 seats of software to be used in the design and manufacture... [20 Aug 1999]
Invensys to focus on intelligent automation systems
News Electronics engineering company, Invensys, announced preliminary year end results whilst unveiling plans to focus on the development of intelligent automation systems for manufacturing processes in the petrochemical, food, power and rail industries. [03 Jun 1999]
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