Chesterton’s Fence serves as a symbolic reminder that what may appear unnecessary or obsolete at first glance may have a purpose integral to the system.

Manufacturers are increasingly thinking about the impact of their operations on the environment and on scarce resources

The BattChallenge tasks 12 universities, along with their vocational school partners, to design, build, test and integrate an advanced lithium-ion battery into a Stellantis electric vehicle.

Manufacturers’ ability to create jobs in the United States, invest in communities and compete in the global economy is threatened by recent tax policy changes that make it more costly to perform research, buy machinery and finance capital investments.

New research reveals that 25 percent of global trade will relocate within three years amid economic and geopolitical instability.

Since the BIL passed, state and local capital investment has rebounded and returned to pre-pandemic levels. The two-year increase in state and local capital investment as a share of state and local spending—1.6 percentage points—is the largest since 1979.

Developing the next generation of manufacturing engineers requires new types of hands-on education. That’s why Purdue Polytechnic’s School of Engineering Technology (SoET) recently built a state-of-the-art facility that features cutting-edge production equipment.

With the calendar turning to December and the countdown to 2024 almost upon us, I wanted to recap my articles from the past year and their key takeaways.

A new “direct joining” method recently developed at the University of Michigan can be used to attach a variety of plastic and metal components.

Companies involved in creating the products and components that are critical to our everyday lives face an urgent need to make their supply chains less vulnerable to events that could interrupt their businesses.