UI team cuts defects at buck knives
A team of five graduating University of Idaho mechanical engineering students has designed safety-and-efficiency improvements for a machine used to assemble flagship folding knives that helped make Buck Knives a household name.
For their senior—or capstone—project, the students were challenged to reduce alignment and timing problems and update safety features for an apparat...
More growth in Pullman -Art only The $9 million, 98,000-square-foot Zocholl Building, top center, takes shape on the Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. main campus in Pullman. The facility will enable the company to test products at a central location. Schweitzer is acting as...
Manufacturer index shows large gains U.S. small business manufacturing is growing again by inventing new industries and business processes, says PayNet, a small-business analytics and risk-management company.
The PayNet Manufacturing Index, which measures the amount of in...
Manufacturing job gains lag targeted pace, group says The latest monthly U.S. jobs report shows America's manufacturing sector didn't gain a single job in April 2013, a setback in the effort to create 1 million new manufacturing jobs in the president's second term, says the Alliance for American Manufac...
Freight manager here rolls toward double-digit growth Compass Distributing LLC, a division of Fast Way Freight System Inc. that's doing business as Compass Freight Management, is on track to see a 60 percent increase in revenue for 2013 compared with last year, says Fast Way co-owner Mark Barnes. ...
Conveyor maker here views acquisition as springboard Opportunity Industries Inc., a Spokane Valley-based company that installs, maintains, and repairs conveyor systems for companies such as United Parcel Service and FedEx Corp., among others, is hoping a recent acquisition will help it broaden its cust...
Cheaper U.S. energy said helping manufacturers compete The U.S. manufacturing industry is competing globally again, thanks to lower natural gas prices and a renaissance in the oil and gas energy sector, said panelists at a recent "Perspectives on the Energy Industry" forum sponsored by Houston-based law...
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