In his top-level reshuffle, disclosed Thursday, Mulally also installed global leaders for purchasing, quality and advanced manufacturing engineering and information technology.
The review of the manufacturing engineering sector also highlighted a long-running demand for skilled machine operators, welders and graduate engineering positions.
Barra, 49, is by all accounts an impressive leader with a valuable background in manufacturing engineering, great people skills and a tremendous work ethic.
It achieved a five-star grade in aeronautical, mechanical and manufacturing engineering.
The Merthyr Tydfil site employs 203 people in manufacturing, engineering, sales, service and administration.
The group consisted of 15 people--speaking seven languages--from Renault's technology, finance, manufacturing and engineering departments.
The Prince of Wales used a visit to Merseyside to launch a drive to get more young people into manufacturing and engineering.
The Manufacturing Systems Engineering Group at America's National Institute for Standards and Technology, which is led by Charles McLean, is working on things such as the best way to represent a human being.
Indeed, for big, high-value choices, that seems obvious: when Starbucks introduced its instant coffee, or when Applied Materials moved its manufacturing and engineering base to Asia, those decisions involved sizable amounts of resources and significant risk.
The ministry said the rebound was helped by growth in the biomedical manufacturing and transport engineering sectors, which helped offset a decline in the output of the electronics sector.
Among the things Britain does still produce rather well, oddly enough, is cars some 1.7m of them last year at the British plants of companies including Toyota, Nissan, Honda and BMW. And there are pockets of manufacturing excellence in engineering, medical products and other sectors too.
Speaking to hundreds of students and faculty, the Vice President argued that manufacturing jobs are coming back to the United States and talked about the reasons that manufacturing matters not just to people who might one day work in manufacturing like the engineering students at Iowa State, but to the entire U.S. economy and to the American middle class.
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"We've always had the philosophy that we should build vehicles where they are sold, so it makes sense to have suppliers close to your manufacturing operations, " says Mike Goss, external affairs manager for Toyota's engineering and manufacturing division in North America.
In the typical production supply chain for consumer products, of which apparel production is a good example, the higher-value, pre-manufacturing activities like designing, engineering, and branding, and post-manufacturing activities like marketing, warehousing, transporting, and retailing happen in the United States, while the mostly lower-end manufacturing and assembly activities take place abroad.
Esterline Technologies Corporation is a specialized engineering and manufacturing company principally serving aerospace and defense markets.
Surely it created engineering and manufacturing jobs to design and produce the machine, right?
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Two months ago Hardiek put employees from marketing, engineering and manufacturing into 20 teams for weeklong meetings.
The university said the academy, catering for 14 to 19-year-olds, would help "fill the engineering and manufacturing skills gap".
Paul Pritchard, head of the JCB academy project, said it would aim to "regenerate engineering and manufacturing in Britain".
Employees were no longer mainly organised around customer segments but on functional principles: engineering, manufacturing, marketing and so forth.
That money has underwritten Tesla's engineering and manufacturing, but federal and state governments also subsidize the purchase of Tesla products.
Dieter Zetsche, Chrysler's CEO, wants to continue the pattern of putting more design, engineering and manufacturing in the hands of suppliers.
The paper sets out a range of new A-levels and GCSEs in vocational subjects, in areas such as engineering, manufacturing and tourism.
From April, Search will work with the army's own recruitment staff, offering specialist advice on the technical, manufacturing, construction and engineering sectors.
In engineering and manufacturing, there is a critical mass required for survival, and when it is no longer there, you lose everything.
The Sector Skills Council for Science, Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies (Semta) has warned car manufacturers faced a skills gap as existing engineers retire.
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The company and the foundation share the same two philanthropic priorities: environmental causes and so-called STEM education, for science, technology, engineering and manufacturing.
But now, after years of benign neglect, GM is putting the pieces together, tapping the engineering, manufacturing and distribution resources of its global partners.
Their plan: to create a "virtual car company" that would farm out most of the design, engineering and manufacturing work for the V-12 to outside suppliers.
Ford wants to also accelerate development of global vehicles that share similar underpinnings, in order to squeeze out even more savings from engineering, manufacturing and marketing.
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