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Fortune: Hot Things To Do With Metal From flash-bang welding to forming impossible shapes, factory wizardry is casting new spells in the

Is there some law of nature decreeing that manufactured goods keep getting lower in cost and higher in quality? Products such as cars, appliances, and consumer electronics rocket forward in perform...

Fortune: Building For The Next Chip Boom Never mind that sales are off by 30%. Chipmakers are racing ahead with snazzy new te

The headlong rush of semiconductor miniaturization, it seems, waits for no one. Just because chipmakers are staring at woefully thin order books doesn't mean they can stop following Moore's law, th...

Fortune: Tiremaking Technology Is On A Roll An industry with sprawling plants, fat inventories, and long cycle times is turning to speedy

Up on a catwalk in a hospital-clean factory in Milan, research director Renato Caretta of Italy's Pirelli waves his hands happily as he points out features of a new robot-based production line. Wit...

Fortune: Tapping the Last Big Labor Pool The right training programs can turn people in dead-end jobs, as well as the unemployed, into ba

It wasn't one of the usual explanations for a plant closing. In early May, Dana Corp. announced it was shutting down an injection-molding facility in Marine City, just northeast of Detroit, where s...

Fortune: THE CARE & FEEDING OF ENGINEERS Few are nerds wearing pocket protectors; most are sociable and articulate. They're the front

REMEMBER that pudgy kid in the eighth grade, the one who liked to concoct bombs in his mom's kitchen? Now he's one of America's premier software designers. Or that other brat, the one who got in tr...

Fortune: WHY TOYOTA KEEPS GETTING BETTER AND BETTER AND BETTER Success never gets in the way of constant improvement. Here's how the worl

OF ALL the hortatory slogans kicked around Toyota City, the key one is kaizen, which means ''continuous improvement'' in Japanese. While many other companies strive for dramatic breakthroughs, Toyo...

Fortune: THE SOUL OF AN OLD MACHINE A tiny band at Cincinnati Milacron breathed new life into a dying product -- and into their ailing ma

The clever combatant looks to the effect of combined energy and does not require too much from individuals. He takes individual talent into account and uses each man according to his capabilities. ...

Fortune: HOW THE U.S. CAN COMPETE GLOBALLY

Robert N. Noyce was a founder of two of Silicon Valley's most creative companies, Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel. Along the way he helped invent the integrated circuit. He has now taken on the p...

Fortune: SHAPING UP YOUR SUPPLIERS It's survival time. And to make the cut yourself you've got to get real tough with your vendors. Innov

SMALL manufacturing companies are in crisis. Their main customers, the big boys of U.S. industry, have been humbled by global competition and are seeking their salvation in higher standards of qual...

Fortune: HOW TO REVIVE U.S. HIGH TECH Can anything be done about America's slipping technological lead? You bet, says Simon Ramo, the sci

Simon Ramo -- the Ramo in Bunker-Ramo, a computer venture, and the ''R'' in TRW, the giant defense electronics company -- has advised Presidents and served on the boards of corporations and univers...

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