Industry Week articles from June 2003

Industry Week archives from June 2003

The right solution: Baldor Electric Company. (Advertisement).(Advertisement)
June 1, 2003... Information is more valuable than ever in today's fast-paced, business environment. With its recent launch of "Baldor ProSPEC", Baldor Electric Company offers customers more support than anyone in the industry and more reasons to be confident...

The real crisis in U.S. manufacturing. (Editor's Page).(Editorial)
June 1, 2003... THE BIGGEST CRISIS IN U.S. MANUFACTURING ISN'T THE THREAT FROM China and other low-cost countries (in fact there's opportunity there, too). It isn't the threat that China and other countries are helping themselves to U.S. manufacturers'...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
June 1, 2003... Lessons in Leadership From the Military As a retired Air Force officer I feel John Brandt totally missed the mark on the applicability of the military leadership model in the corporate world [Re: Soldiers of Fortune? At Ease!, April 2003,...

Shareholder advocacy in high gear: CEOs, Boards risk black eyes if they don't respond. (Investor Relations).
June 1, 2003... THE SCANDALS THAT HAVE ROCKED corporate America during the last several years have produced a lot of fallout at manufacturing companies, not the least of which is a rise in shareholder determination to reform business. "2003 will be...

New growth strategies. (Briefing).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Adrian Slywotzky promises to be what Peter Drucker was to much of the 20th century: the management guru against whom all others are measured. "How to Grow When Markets Don't" (2003, Warner Business Books), Slywotzky's latest book--it comes...

LEDs redefine lighting. (Emerging Technologies).
June 1, 2003... ADVANCES IN LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (LEDS) ARE DELIVERING A REVOLUTION IN EFFICIENCY PERFORMANCE LIFE AND IN HOW LIGHT CAN BE DEPLOYED. IF REACH DEFINES A REVOLUTION, CONsider that LEDs are already preferred by Pennsylvania's Amish for...

Don't leave it to Alan Greenspan. (Executive Word).(Interview)
June 1, 2003... Vice chairman of the board of directors of the Washington, D. C.-based National Association of Manufacturers, Richard E. Dauch has a blunt message for management. The economic future is in the hands of the men and women who manage manufacturing...

Three turnaround travails: It's not easy to stop shooting yourself in the foot, but it's a start. (Brandt on Leadership).
June 1, 2003... ONE OF THE THINGS I DO FOR A living is the art of the turnaround; I fix broken companies. This usually occasions great interest (OK, some interest) at cocktail parties, as people who've just met me assume that this means I am a guru of some...

Waking up to a new world. (Manufacturing's Global Future).
June 1, 2003... AS GLOBALIZED PRODUCTION EVOLVES, MANUFACTURERS ARE FACING COMPLEX DECISIONS ABOUT OMPETITIVENESS INCREASINGLY, THIS MEANS MOVING SOMR OR ALL MANUFACTURING PROCESSES OVERSEAS. SOME EXECUTIVES SEE GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES AHEAD; OTHERS SEE LOSS AND...

Steady as she goes: electrical products and electronics manufactures take a bath in 2003. Textile and pharmaceutical firms push on at full speed. (The World's Largest Manufacturing Companies).(Industry Overview)
June 1, 2003... $ 100 BILLION DOLLARS. At 50 cents a pop, that would buy enough cans of soda laid end-to-end to encircle the earth 600 times. The annual revenues of nine manufacturers at the very top of this year's IW 1000 beat the $100 billion mark by at...

The world largest manufacturing companies.(Directory)
June 1, 2003... THE WORLD'S LARGEST MANUFACTURING COMPANIES REVENUE '03 RANK COMPANY/COUNTRY (US$ MILLIONS) 1 Exxon Mobil Corp., USA ...

It strategies for manufacturing: information access when, where, and how you need it. (Special Advertising Section).
June 1, 2003... For manufacturing firms, controlling costs is everything. Efficiencies in inventory management, product design and development, and information transfer make the difference between profits and losses. With increasingly demanding customers and...

Winning with wireless. (Plant Strategies).
June 1, 2003... IN MANUFACTURING GOING WIRELESS MEANS DEVELOPING A STRATEGY FOR TRACKING WHAT MATTERS MOST-VIA TECHNOLOGIES SUCH AS RFID (RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION). BAR CODES AND MACHINE MONITORING. THE RESULTS REVOLUTIONIZE THE ENTERPRISE. WIRELESS...

Getting down to business problems: investing in technology for technology's sake isn't the fix manufacturers need. (E-Commentary).
June 1, 2003... SOFTWARE'S DISCONNECT WITH business is nothing new. During the 1990s, this misalignment often resulted in manufacturers spending on technology for technology's sake. In fact, when you asked a manufacturing CIO why his company was installing an...

Second thoughts lead to second chance: Indiana tax program, other promises, prompt Hartmarx Corp. To keep open some of its Michigan City operations. (Locations).
June 1, 2003... Two YEARS AGO HARTMARX Corp., a Chicago-based maker of men's clothing, found itself facing a challenge all-too-familiar to manufacturers today: Overseas competition had eroded the margins on some of its products, and as a result the company...

No longer an option: expensing of stock options will lower earnings. (Financial & Economic Trends).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... AS SOON AS APRIL OF NEXT YEAR, companies that grant stock options to their executives and other employees will have to list them as an expense on their income statements. In mid-April of this year, the Financial Accounting Standards Board...

Pella drives lean throughout the enterprise: it's not just for the shop floor anymore. (Best Practices).(Company Profile)
June 1, 2003... JUST A DECADE AGO, PELLA CORP., THE WINdow and door manufacturer, was struggling: Sales were stagnant, market share was falling, and its lead position in the window market was in jeopardy. Today, the Pella, Iowa-based company is enjoying...

Curtail costs of health care with choice: prices would stabilize if consumers called the shots. (Evans on the Economy).
June 1, 2003... ANY WAY YOU ADD UP THE numbers, surging healthcare costs threaten to swamp the system. After a hiatus during the 1990s, medical-care cost increases have returned with a vengeance, rising 13% last year and projected to rise 15% this year. ...