Manufacturing technology orders capped the first half of the year with another strong month in June, gaining 5 percent compared to June 2017 and bringing the annual growth rate to 22 percent for 2018. The ...
WASHINGTON – Federal numbers say that US unemployment fell to the lowest in years, with 3.9 percent. In other words, over 96 percent of Americans that want jobs have them. It’s the lowest since the ...
SCHAUMBURG – TMA is opening up for fall registration in its Related Theory Apprenticeship Training- Year 1 Monday-Wednesday and Tuesday-Thursday evening classes. They are also offering daytime classes this year – all at their easily ...
SOUTH ELGIN – It’s something manufacturers lose sleep over – where in the world will we find machinists, CNC programmers and robotics designers to move into the technologically-advanced Manufacturing 4.0? Behind the doors of U-46’s ...
SCHAUMBURG – Manufacturers in the Chicago region were optimistic in June about sales over the next 12 months – a good sign for the second half of 2018 and first half of 2019. At the ...
The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) issued the following news release today: Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.0 percent in the first quarter of 2018, according to the ...
Robotics and Automation News listed eight technologies that are about to change manufacturing as we know it. They found those new developments listed in the Smart Manufacturing report released by ABIResearch earlier this week. The ...
The International Monetary Fund recently released a report saying manufacturing isn’t as important to national economies as it once was. The service industry is what countries should focus on, the IMF report says. That’s just ...
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois lawmakers from both sides of the aisle agreed unanimously that 16 year old students should have easier access to career apprenticeship programs. State Senator Michael Connelly (R-Naperville), a co-sponsor of the measure, ...
SCHAUMBURG – Last week, TMA News reported on the views about the Trump Administration’s tariffs that Michael Stumo, executive director of Coalition for a Prosperous America shared at TMA’s Schaumburg headquarters. This week, Industry Week ...