Reposted from Product Design & Development ******* Delphi Automotive says a plant in Flint with about 327 employees that makes instrument systems for General Motors Co. trucks and vans will close. The United Auto Workers union says production is moving to Mexico. Delphi Vice President Lindsey Williams tells Mlive.com that the…

Reposted from The New York Times ********** Hackers in China Attacked The Times for Last 4 Months Nicole Perlroth | January 30, 2013 | NY Times SAN FRANCISCO — For the last four months, Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York Times, infiltrating its computer systems and getting passwords…

Reposted from the South China Morning Post ********* 787 grounding puts Boeing’s outsourcing in focus January 18, 2013 | South China Morning Post Boeing’s woes with its new 787, grounded worldwide after a series of incidents, shine the spotlight on its bold but risky strategy to source parts for the…

Tue, Mar 12 2013 - 6:00pm Michael C. Sekora: Technology-Based Planning, the Foundation of All Competitive Advantage President, Quadrigy, Inc. Sekora, who was the founder and director of Project Socrates, a U.S. intelligence community initiative under President Reagan, will posit that the shift from technology-based planning to economic-based planning has…

Reposted from Mercury News ********* Chinese purchase of Complete Genomics requires scrutiny Michael Wessel and Larry Wortzel | December 12, 2012 | MercuryNews.com China, with its enormous foreign currency reserves, is soon to launch a shopping spree for U.S. companies. A goal: Capture the most critical emerging technologies with potential…

Reposted from The Huffington Post ******** Just Say No to Chinese Acquisitions of American Assets Peter Navarro and Greg Autry | December 12, 2012 | Huffington Post China’s recent acquisition of Michigan battery maker A123 represents yet another step in Beijing’s well-orchestrated strategy to surpass the U.S. as both an economic and…

Duh. ***   December 13, 2012 High-Tech Factories Built to Be Engines of Innovation By ANNIE LOWREY SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — The Obama administration has long heralded the potential of American factories to offer good, stable middle-class jobs in an economy that desperately needs them. But experts say there might be another…

One of the reasons Japan grew is because they had an economic plan.  They recognize that national interests matter, and they pursue the national interest.  We don’t. Robotics?  The U.S. developed robotics initially but Japan commercialized it.  We didn’t. Electronics?  We did a lot of electronics R&D but Japan produces…

Reposted from The New York Times ******** In Shift of Jobs, Apple Will Make Some Macs in U.S. Catherine Rampell and Nick Wingfield | December 6, 2012 | NY Times Apple plans to join a small but growing number of companies that are bringing some manufacturing jobs back to the United…

Reposted from The New York Times ******* Skills Don’t Pay the Bills Adam Davidson | November 20, 2012 | NY Times Earlier this month, hoping to understand the future of the moribund manufacturing job market, I visited the engineering technology program at Queensborough Community College in New York City. I…