Manufacturing

UW's Waisman Center seeing strong demand for biomanufacturing facility time

In its very low-technology manner, the whiteboard indicates the success of the facility, which is a...

New Mexico firm to make flu vaccine at Wisconsin BioManufacturing facility

Located at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's , the...

Manufacturing partnership will move into biotech and biomedical spaces

WMEP, a state...

Manufacturing Matters starts with innovation

Manufacturing Matters, which kicked off on Monday at the Midwest Airlines Center, is the only statewide conference g...

Applied Technology Centers to aid printing and manufacturing

These days, every company is a technology business, especially manufacturers and printers, and help for them is on the way in the form of Applied Technology Centers now under construction at Both facilities will offer technology ser...

Modine Manufacturing earnings drop

Net quarterly sales increased around 10 percent to $411 million, mostly from acquisitions. Modine makes thermal management equipment for automotive and other industries, including fuel cells. <a href="h...

State campaign seeks to reverse negative perception of manufacturing work

-- Careers in manufacturing are high-wage and high-tech. Yet, a future workforce shortage may be on the horizon. It appears a negative public perception - one that brings to mind low wages, assembly-line work and lay-offs - is thwarting young adults from pursuing manufacturing careers across the country. This despite a projected need for 10 million new skilled workers by 2...

Whither Wisconsin manufacturing in the new global economy?

That was one of many messages promoted Tuesday in a new, 400-page analysis of the state's manufacturing industries, commissioned by the Wisconsin Extension Manufacturing Partnership<...

J.J. Keller, Modine Manufacturing, Gustave A. Larson Co., Esker, Firstlogic, Software One

, an online personnel management tool which was beta tested on more than 13,000 human resources professionals, the company announced Tuesday. The tool is built around is built around five areas of concern for human resources staffs: plan, staff, compensate, develop and review. Prospera focuses on how those...

GE Healthcare invests $37.5 million in Chinese bio-sciences manufacturing facility

GE Healthcare, which has U.S. headquarters in Waukesha, Wis., will invest $37.5 million to extend its production facility in Shanghai to meet increasing customer demand for its products in China and worldwide. The plant in Shanghai is currently undergoing a review process to be the first U.S .FDA approved site for cont...

Manufacturing group says efforts led to big improvements

is a state-supported, non-profit organization providing consulting services to small and me...

EraGen gets $250,000 state loan to revamp manufacturing facility

EraGen's $1 million improvement plan is expected to create about 75 jobs, according to a joint announcement by the firm and Governor Jim Doyle.<br...

Modine Manufacturing makes hydrogen generator with ChevronTexaco

methane and steam meet to begin the reforming process. and <a href="http://www.chevr...

Modine Manufacturing to contribute to DOE's fuel-cell vehicle

RACINE, Wis. vehicle development and demonstration project. The nearly $8.6 million proje...

Northwest Wis. Manufacturing Outreach Center honored by DOC, NIST

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Quick response manufacturing and biotech

MADISON Biotechnology companies interested in achieving greater efficiencies in product development and manufacturing processes are invited to an introductory briefing by the University of Wisconsin-Madisons The <a href="http://www.corprelations.wisc.edu/buswire/biotech_20040707....

Hey Willie, Wisconsin Manufacturing Doesnt Need an Aid Concert!

Six months ago I wrote an article which the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published, entitled Barrons Article Knocks the Rust Off State Manufacturing Outlook, that recounted the predictions of a hedge-fund manager named Jeff Gendell in an interview from a December edition of Barrons Magazine. In Rust Removal, Mr. Gende...

U.S. manufacturing benefits if utilities can assist them with energy efficiency efforts

As is so often the case with any form of legislation, each individual law represents a compromise built around a coalition of diverse forces. In the case of energy and electricity, one needs to look no further than the way most states reward regulated utilities for providing electricity. Each utility is allowed to make a return on its fixed-cost investments, for each unit of electricity sold, whi...

Optimistic Outlook For Manufacturing

Madison, Wis. -- Kenneth Poole, an economic and community development specialist, presented a hopeful outlook for Wisconsin manufacturing Friday at the . Abstaining from morbid statistics and pessimistic views, Poole emphasized ways to keep and grow b...

Wisconsin Manufacturing and the Machinery for Change

Wisconsin got a much-needed boost from a recent , in which I discussed some of the economic reasons for a Wisconsin...

Mentor Licenses Botulinum From WARF and Plans Wisconsin Manufacturing Facility

MADISON, Wis. - The a California-based publicly traded company (NYSE: MNT), which gives Mentor the exclusive manufacturing and marketing rights to the proprietary botulinum...

Wisconsin Manufacturing Poised For a Barrons Bounce

Plymouth, Wis. - After years of discouraging words about the manufacturing prairie and pejorative phrases like Rust Belt, Wisconsin got a much needed boost from a Barrons Magazine story entitled Rust Removal in its December 8, 2003 edition. In an interview with Jeff Gendell, a hedge-fund manager for the $1 Billion Tontine A...

JohnLets Get Serious - Manufacturing is a critical part of the Wisconsin economy

I read your article, Lets Get Serious, on the Wisconsin Technology Network webpage the week of Harley Davidson Motor Companys 100th Anniversary party here in Milwaukee. Your comment regarding ma...

Let's Get Serious About Manufacturing!

On July 17th John Byrnes made the following statements in his guest column that appeared on The Wisconsin Technology Network: Its time to get serious. It is time to stop obsessing about the continual decline in traditional manufacturing jobs there is nothing we can do about it. These comments surprised the manufacturing community. It is hard to read that article and not come away with the impres...

Wisconsin Manufacturing - demise or survival?

The manufacturing industry can benefit from technology breakthroughs, but government help is needed, both at the federal and state level. Our economic survival and development still depends on building wealth, for our citizens and our state. The manufacturing industry in Wisconsin currently employs more than 500,000 peo...

Biotech Manufacturing Facility to be Built in Wisconsin

The facility will be unlike any other in the Midwest. Only five of these types of facilities exist nationally, and none of them in the Midwest region, said Terrence R. Dolan, PhD, Director of the Fitchburg Technology Campus. Paired with 35,000 square feet of laboratory space, the factory will be an engine for Wisconsins biotechnology industry. Sources close to the project reveal that the...

Manufacturing still viable career

As the manufacturing sector struggles to recover from its two-year-long nightmare, recent or soon-to-be college grads may view a career in building things a bit gauche. If they could only see what really goes on in todays factories, maybe theyd amend that view. Modern numeric control systems, robotic welding, re...