Ohio's Manufacturing Heritage
Ohio’s new Governor Ted Strickland is building on the state’s manufacturing heritage to retain and recruit the industries of the future – specifically...
Articles
Site Selection Challenges & Opportunities for a Changing Aerospace Industry
The last fifteen years have brought dramatic changes within the aerospace industry. These changes include rapid and large company consolidations, dram...
The Dynamic U.S. Automotive Supplier Sector
The opening decade of the automotive industry’s second century is evaporating any notion that the sector is a mature, smokestack industry. Private eq...
Flying High in Arkansas
Arkansas’ No. 1 export is aircraft and spacecraft. Approximately 10,000 Arkansans work in aerospace occupations such as aircraft parts and components...
The Future of Automotive Site Location Competitions
The U.S. automotive industry is vital to our country’s economic health. There are approximately 7 million people who depend on the industry for employ...
Siting Trends for Tier 1 and Tier 2 Automotive Suppliers
Automotive suppliers represent a significant portion of the manufacturing workforce in many states. In fact, depending on what NAICS codes are include...
Minority Supplier Supply: A Window of Opportunity
Two forces shape minority manufacturing in America – demographic dynamic shifts in the consumer driven supply chain and strategic sourcing business ma...
Georgia - Smoothing the Ride to Success
Aviation pioneer Ben Epps flew the first powered airplane in Georgia in 1907. Two years later, Ford Motor Company began building automobiles in the st...
Chance Favors the Prepared Mega Site
There is a familiar saying: Chance favors the prepared mind. The same could be said of mega sites. A mega site, most simply, is an industrial site enc...
The Last Page - Serendipity
Among the opening articles in this issue, Kevin Mayer covers the relatively new phenomenon of prepared mega sites (Chance Favors the Prepared Mega Sit...