Manufacturing
Manufacturing
![Co-owners Greg Desrosiers (left) and Chris Desrosiers](https://businesswest.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/PrintDPb-768x432.jpg)
Rolling with the Changes Looking back on 2020 and 2021 — when business ground to a halt for many industries, then began to ramp back up way too slowly […]
Making Change The manufacturing tech industry is building back fast, undeterred by significant labor and supply-chain challenges. To maintain this momentum, manufacturers should navigate elevated risks while advancing sustainability […]
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Meetings of the Minds Kevin Moforte has traveled an intriguing road to his new role as Western Mass. director of FORGE. Before serving as executive director for EforAll Lynn, […]
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Innovation and Adaptation Manufacturing is a healthy industry, Bill Bither days, and demand for manufactured goods is soaring across all sectors. Meeting that demand is … well, a challenge. […]
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Making Changes In manufacturing, as in many industries, the story of the past year has been one of shortages and high costs — shortages of both materials and workers, […]
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The Shot Heard ’Round the Region Smith & Wesson’s recently announced plan to move its Springfield operations to Tennessee came as a shock to many — the 165-year-old company has […]
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Machine Learning As pivots go, this one was pretty smooth, Mary Bidwell says. But that’s fitting for an academic program built on precision. It was almost a year ago […]
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Keeping Pace Both the immediate and long-term future of the manufacturing industry will be defined by the development of a number of ever-evolving and prominent trends, according to the Assoc. […]
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Making Do Mark Borsari says he hasn’t been on a plane since a vacation in early March. By his reckoning, that’s by far the longest stretch he can remember when […]
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Current Events Tony Contrino says Westfield Gas & Electric, like all utilities, has considerable practice watching storms develop, getting ready for possible damage, and, as the old saying goes, […]
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Tight Squeeze President Trump has made no secret of his hope that a series of tariffs on goods from China and other countries will eventually force a more favorable balance […]
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Taking Flight Since the announcement last month that defense and aerospace giants Raytheon and United Technologies will merge into one firm based in Eastern Mass., few other details have emerged, […]
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Leading Lights Two Springfield Technical Community College (STCC) students are working as interns this summer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Defense research and development center in Lexington. […]
![CEO Bill Bither](https://businesswest.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/MetricsDeskHAZED-768x432.jpg)
Scaling Up Over the past five years, Machine Metrics, a company that specializes in predictive analytics for manufacturers, has been scaling up its operation. But with an infusion of $11.3 […]
![Jack Ford (left) and Jeremy Hall are two of the current student interns at ADDFab.](https://businesswest.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/ADDFabStudents-768x432.jpg)
Layer by Layer The Advanced Digital Design & Fabrication Lab, or ADDFab for short — one of 31 ‘core facilities’ in the Institute for Applied Life Sciences at UMass Amherst […]