Robots Doing Factory Jobs

Depending on the angle from which you’re looking at the crystal ball, automation is either an imminent wave of large-scale labor force devastation or a slower, more muted change that society will seemlessly absorb—and maybe even enjoy.

A recent paper by M.I.T’s Daron Acemoglu…

Aerospace Association Launched in Michigan to Assist Sector Growth

The newly formed Aerospace Industry Association of Michigan (AIAM) officially launched with the organization’s inaugural Board of Director’s meeting in August of this year. AIAM serves to be the voice of the 600+ aerospace companies and organizations that already call Michigan home.

Michigan’s heritage in the aerospace…

Austal Delivers Sixth Alabama-Built Littoral Combat Ship to U.S. Navy

On Friday, September 15, 2017, Austal delivered its sixth littoral combat ship to the United States Navy. LCS 12, the future USS Omaha, will be the navy’s tenth littoral combat ship and the first of two that Austal will deliver this year.

In a news release from Austal’s…

Cars Will Soon Be Able to Deliver Themselves

About 80 million vehicles are produced around the world every year, but the logistics for transport from the factory to the end customer are extensive, costly and completely manual. The Swedish research project Born to Drive has developed a new software solution that lets the vehicles move themselves.

A vehicle…

Baby Boomers and Millennials Driving the Vintage Marketplace

In the United States alone, there are approximately 80 million millennials spending an estimated $600 billion per year. The millennial generation (born between 1980 and 2000), is actually the biggest generation in America’s history. They’ve even surpassed the baby boomer generation (born between 1946 and 1964) by 15…