2024 Innovation Issue: Robotic welding system boosts Smoker Craft’s production
The company has received attention for its system and last month earned the Conexus Indiana Manufacturing Innovation Award at TechPoint’s 2024 Mira Awards gala.
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2024 Innovation Issue: ‘Progressive improvement’ leads to customer smiles
TWI Institute, a consulting firm for manufacturers, describes continuous improvement as the “act of taking an established process, breaking it down to its component parts, building it back up using only the essential parts and committing to making incremental improvements over time.”
2024 Innovation Issue: 5 keys to driving Indiana’s manufacturing future
Innovation is the thread woven through these truths, not only in the digital sense but also as it relates to the education and training of our future workforce, providing strategic funding and proactively building the powerful partnerships necessary to effect real change.
2024 Innovation Issue: State grant program spurs Industry 4.0 investments
A total of 526 grants worth a combined $56.9 million have been awarded so far to companies and organizations in 79 counties. In 2023, $20 million was granted to 161 projects in 50 counties. See how the money has been distributed.
2024 Innovation Issue: Wearable devices promise improved safety, productivity
But the devices—whether they’re used in the industrial setting or for personal reasons like health and fitness—can also raise concerns as well as questions about data privacy.
2024 Innovation Issue: On-demand production allows companies to respond quickly to customer needs
Striving for efficiency drives the on-demand philosophies of Mach Medical, Homefield Apparel and 80/20 Inc., even if the companies have little else in common.
Editorial: Indiana should invest more to make sure manufacturers have latest tech
Indiana’s strategic advantage as a manufacturing powerhouse is dependent not just on companies that are building new plants with the latest technology but also in ensuring that existing manufacturers—many of which are suppliers for the big guys—implement the latest technology. If they don’t, they could lose the ability to compete.
Nate Feltman: 3 big challenges await Indiana’s next governor
Gubernatorial candidates Sen. Mike Braun and Jennifer McCormick have an opportunity to explain to Hoosiers their ideas to address our failing K-12 education system, rising energy costs and rising health care costs. Doing so will lay the groundwork for action in 2025.
Greg Zoeller: Carbon capture can usher a new era of manufacturing
In our industrial landscape, the traditional image of manufacturing is often associated with billowing smokestacks and environmental degradation. However, thanks to advancements in carbon capture and sequestration, this image is rapidly becoming outdated.
Chuck Surack: Downtown Heliport is asset too valuable to give up
Indianapolis can be both a hub for aviation innovation and an elite sports destination. These are not mutually exclusive options.
Cecil Bohanon and John Horowitz: Innovation drives investment outcomes
| Cecil Bohanon and John Horowitz
According to Bruce, if a person had bought the used Tucker in 1951 and reasonably maintained and stored the car, it would be worth at least $1.5 million today.
2024 Innovation Issue: The path to Industry 4.0
Numerous groups are working to advance both technology adoption and related workforce development in Indiana’s manufacturing industry, especially among the small companies that represent the bulk of Indiana’s manufacturers.
2024 Innovation Issue: How automation can be a lifesaver
Lilly plans to outfit its Lebanon plants—now under construction—with the latest in robotic, digital manufacturing equipment that will do much of the work that a generation ago was done by humans.
Indiana 250: Scott Glaze of Fort Wayne Metals
Scott Glaze has spent his entire 50-year career at Fort Wayne Metals, which produces wire-based materials for medical devices. When he became the company’s president in 1985, Fort Wayne Metals had one small facility with 30 employees. It now has more than 1,500 employees in Indiana, Ohio and Ireland. Glaze and his wife, Melissa, are […]
Simon Property Group CEO David Simon being treated for cancer
Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group announced David Simon will continue to serve as CEO during his cancer treatment.
Lilly seeks to build conference center on downtown HQ campus
Eli Lilly and Co. plans to build the center on an existing parking lot at its downtown campus, with the goal of hosting more of its global meetings in Indianapolis.
Inflation gauge closely tracked by Federal Reserve rises at slowest pace this year
Friday’s report also showed that income growth slowed and spending cooled sharply in April, a trend that could help moderate economic growth and inflation in the coming months.
City, outside entities start inquiring about buying land adjacent to proposed stadium site
| Taylor Wooten and Mickey Shuey
AES Indiana, which owns a half-acre parking lot at 355 E. Pearl St., just east of Alabama Street, confirmed to IBJ that the company is “currently discussing its sale with a third party.”
Indianapolis Airport Authority moving ahead with decommissioning downtown heliport
Decommissioning the heliport is a needed step in the Hogsett administration’s plan to develop a professional soccer stadium on the east side of downtown.
