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LISTEN: Home Depot to Force Corporate Staff to Work...

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2024/10/10

It’s no secret that retail workers are under a significant amount of stress. Contending with everything from understaffed stores and long hours on their feet to rude customer behavior, and it's no wonder that some companies are finding it necessary to focus on new methods for employee retention.In an effort “to stay connected to the core of [its] business,” Home Depot will begin requiring its corporate workforce to work shifts in its retail stores.Download and listen to the audio version...

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3:09

LISTEN: Bankrupt EV Maker Leaves Abandoned HQ in...

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2024/10/09

Electric vehicle sales in the U.S. have slowed down. In August, J.D. Power said EVs would account for 9% of U.S. automotive sales this year, a fairly major adjustment to its previous forecast of 12%.It’s a market reality that’s forcing large automakers like Ford and Toyota to adjust their plans. It’s also forcing smaller EV makers like Lordstown and Fisker to throw in the towel all together. And in Fisker’s case, it looks like it got out as fast as it could.In June, Fisker filed for bankruptc...

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3:52

LISTEN: Stellantis Union Fight Escalates as Automaker...

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2024/10/08

Last Thursday, UAW members at the automaker's Los Angeles Parts Distribution Center voted to request strike authorization if the company and union can’t come to terms. While several UAW locals have filed grievances against the company since August, L.A. is the first to take it to the next level. The union says Stellantis has violated product and investment commitments ad threatened more strike authorization votes.Download and listen to the audio version below and click here to subscribe to th...

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2:18

LISTEN: Toyota Pumps Brakes on EV Production in the U.S.

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2024/10/07

Toyota has delayed its plans to build a three-row electric SUV in the U.S.According to a Nikkei report, the automaker had originally intended to begin building the vehicles in 2025 at its plant in Kentucky, where it invested another $1.3 billion earlier this year. But now it looks like that won’t happen until 2026, a development that could be blamed on slowing U.S. demand.Toyota confirmed the delay to Reuters, with a spokesperson saying, “We've always said it would be late 2025 and it could c...

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2:04

LISTEN: Toilet Paper Panic Buying Returns Amid...

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2024/10/04

Dockworkers at east and Gulf coast ports from Maine to Texas began walking picket lines on October 1, and reports suggest that the strike could cause price increases and shortages for large and small retailers. The height of the COVID-19 pandemic may have been four years ago, but people apparently still remember the toilet paper shortage that befell U.S. consumers. According to multiple news outlets, including CNN and a local station in Houston, shoppers are once again flocking to s...

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2:29

Plant Closure to Force 144-Year-Old Dairy Products...

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2024/10/02

Sinton Dairy, a company that was established in Colorado Springs in 1880, revealed plans to close its 9-acre manufacturing facility at the end of the year. As a result, 64 workers, including manufacturing supervisors and hourly workers and front-office staff, will lose their jobs. According to Colorado Springs Gazette, Sinton’s owner, LALA U.S., announced that the plant is set to close on December 30, putting an end to the facility that had annually produced 3 million pounds of sour crea...

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3:07

Disgraced Ex-Nissan CEO Ordered to Return Luxury Yacht

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2024/10/01

Once a highly regarded executive credited with a successful run at the helm of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, Ghosn was arrested in Japan in 2018 and accused of misappropriating company funds and violating securities laws. After posting bail and being put under house arrest, he famously escaped Japan in a wooden box, fleeing to the relative safety of Lebanon, where he is a citizen and unlikely to be extradited.Still, Ghosn isn’t entirely insulated from the long arm of the law. Recent reports de...

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2:59

LISTEN: Chinese Subsidiary Fined After Texas Worker...

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2024/09/30

Hailiang (Hai-lee-ahng) Copper Texas is a subsidiary of China Hailiang Group, one of the largest manufacturers of copper and copper alloy products in the world. According to the Labor Department, the company has more than 20,000 workers across 80 subsidiaries, including one location in Sealy, Texas. In March, an employee in Sealy suffered severe arm injuries while trying to clear debris. The worker's right hand became caught between a conveyor belt and a rack holding 15 one-ton copper co...

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3:04

LISTEN: Auto Industry's Oldest Test Site Turns 100

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2024/09/27

General Motors yesterday recognized the 100-year anniversary of the oldest test site in the automotive industry, the Milford Proving Ground. After a century in operation, the proving ground, strategically placed between GM's hubs in Flint, Detroit, Lansing and Pontiac, Michigan, still plays a crucial role in GM's testing and R&D operations. GM bought the 1,125-acre site in 1923 for about $100,000. Originally called "The Bluff," the site provided 5.5 miles of test roads on rugged...

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3:37

LISTEN: 3D-Printed Shark Pipes Beat Out Tesla Valves...

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2024/09/26

Researchers from the University of Washington want to improve the pipe. Specifically, they are developing a flexible pipe with an interior helical structure that makes fluid flow one way and not the other. In the latest example of nature-inspired biomimicry, the team turned to shark intestines and their new prototypes stand to make a significant impact on everything from medicine to engineering. When it comes to getting fluid to flow in one direction, designs like those found in engines ...

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2:54

LISTEN: Ford Patent Could Protect You from...

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2024/09/25

You may own a Ford vehicle and travel across the border but that doesn’t necessarily mean you want to smuggle illegal drugs. And the automaker wants to make sure you don’t accidentally participate in narcotics trafficking.Ford recently filed a patent, spotted by Motor1, for an "unknown cargo detection and evidence collection system" that can use a vehicle’s various cameras and sensors to prevent the driver from becoming a “blind mule,” or someone who carries illegal drugs across the border wi...

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20:47

Gen Z in Manufacturing: If They Don't See a Future,...

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2024/09/24

Welcome to another episode of Gen Z in Manufacturing, a podcast where I interview young people about their journeys in manufacturing, how they intend to influence the industry and what they are looking for from an employer.For this episode, I welcome Erin Sorensen, a 27-year-old director of the Innovation Hub, or iHub, at Northeast Community College in Nebraska. Sorensen’s professional experience includes time with Kawasaki and working in food manufacturing before transitioning to her c...

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2:54

LISTEN: VW Halts Production on ID.4 EVs Due to Faulty...

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2024/09/24

Volkswagen has issued a stop-sale and stop-production order for the ID.4, its electric SUV, while it sorts out an issue with the door handles.The automaker’s actions come after it recalled nearly 100,000 of the EVs due to an issue that can cause the doors to open unexpectedly. The impacted vehicles include 2021-2024 models made at VW’s manufacturing facilities in Germany and Tennessee. In a statement obtained by Green Car Reports, Volkswagen spokesperson Mark Gillies said his company is ...

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2:15

LISTEN: Proposed Bill in Brazil Would Require...

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2024/09/23

Throughout recent history, automakers have found themselves the targets of federal requirements pertaining to everything from fuel efficiency to safety equipment.But this might be a new one.Reports have surfaced regarding a lawmaker in Brazil who has proposed a bill that would add another mandate to the country’s auto industry: it wants to force automakers to sell amphibious cars.Download and listen to the audio version below and click here to subscribe to the Today in Manufacturing podcast.

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2:40

LISTEN: Google’s Drones Picked to Fly Blood Over London

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2024/09/20

If you’re in London this fall and you hear a faint buzzing noise overhead, that may be the sound of one of Google’s Wing drones carrying a load of fresh blood.The company just announced that it’s partnering with the U.K.’s National Health Service and medical drone network provider Apian to run a trial that will see drones flying blood samples between two central London hospitals, Guy’s and St Thomas. Download and listen to the audio version below and click here to subscribe to the Today ...

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2:58

LISTEN: Lotus 3-Seater Puts Driver in the Middle

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2024/09/19

Automotive manufacturer Lotus announced the Theory 1, a concept car that the company expects to set the stage for its smart performance vehicles. Built on a new design manifesto called The Lotus Theory, the automaker stated that the Theory 1 will “harmoniously [fit] around the driver and adapt based on their needs.”Lotus designed the Theory 1 with 10 main A-surface materials, including recycled chopped carbon fiber, polyester, rubber and aluminum. The nearly 3,500-pound vehicle can accelerate...

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2:49

LISTEN: The 163-Year-Old Shipmaker that Built the...

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2024/09/18

The 163-year-old British shipmaker that built the Titanic said that it’s insolvent after failing to acquire the funding needed to stay afloat.Harland & Wolff, a Belfast company that specializes in ship repair, shipbuilding and offshore construction, said the rejection of its request for a $264 million facility from UK Export finance has left the loss-making company in a difficult financial position.Download and listen to the audio version below and click here to subscribe to the Today in ...

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3:34

LISTEN: Screw Thread Solves 173-Year-Old Mystery

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2024/09/17

When London's Crystal Palace was constructed in 1851, it was the world's largest building. However, the project's greatest mystery was how the structure was completed in just 190 days. A new study from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England, published in The International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology, has discovered that the Crystal Palace was the first building known to use a standard screw thread.The Crystal Palace is the earliest known building to us...

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3:20

LISTEN: LEGO Just Tested a Lifesize McLaren Supercar

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2024/09/16

In July, British supercar manufacturer McLaren Automotive unveiled the fruits of an audacious collaboration with the LEGO Group. The LEGO Technic McLaren P1 was a 1:8 scale, 3,893-piece LEGO set that paid homage to "the best driver's car in the world on both road and track." But like many a toy, the small replica left many fans curious as to whether this box of bricks, once fully assembled, could manage a lap on the track, much less match the performance of its elite engineering inspirat...

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2:32

LISTEN: The Fastest and Slowest Selling Vehicles in...

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2024/09/13

The two slowest-selling are models produced by the same automaker.Even the most seasoned automakers don’t always get inventory right. For multiple reasons, from production rates to market response, this formula can fall into disarray, leaving dealers and automakers with an excess – sometimes a big one.CarEdge recently crunched the numbers, measuring the number of days it would take to sell out all the available inventory of a vehicle based on daily sales rates. This effort attempts to look at...

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