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NHS Choices is using Narrative Science Inc. software, called Quill, a cloud application running in Amazon Web Services. The software uses natural language processing techniques — a key element of artificial intelligence — to comb through unstructured data and automatically present it in story form, akin to the way a human would write a document.
We hear about big data all the time, but there's a problem; there's just too much of it. Natural language generation of this data is the game of this Chicago-based company, and it could help address the huge thirst for big data-led content.
Kris Hammond, co-founder and chief scientist of Narrative Science Inc., said hiring data scientists to interpret Big Data results is a "striking misuse of human capital" that doesn't scale. He said that companies gather and clean data and turn it over to a data scientist, who interpets results and presents them a narrative that a business leader can understand. The process can cost tens of millions of dollars, with no guarantee of success, he said. Mr. Hammond proposed that companies are better served using software to generate the kind of analytics reports they require.
Clint Boulton of The Wall Street Journal reports, "The U.K.'s National Health Service is using cloud analytics software to pluck numerical and text data on health-care facilities from spreadsheets and databases and present it in plain English on its website, NHS Choices."
Hammond is the co-founder and chief scientist at Narrative Science, a startup born out of Northwestern that turns data into coherent stories. Narrative Science began by taking baseball box scores and generating game recap stories. Hammond also founded UChicago's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and is a faculty member at NU's McCormick School of Engineering.
Two McCormick School of Engineering faculty members will be inducted into the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame this week. Kristian Hammond, professor of computer science and journalism, and Joseph Moskal, research professor of biomedical engineering, are among this year's nine inductees.
Chicago based data-to-text automation software vendor Narrative Science has rolled out Quill for Portfolio Commentary, a module to accompany its Quill platform that uses artificial intelligence to transform data into text narratives, developed to automate portfolio commentary for client reporting, allowing portfolio managers to free up time previously devoted to manually producing commentary, to focus on investment strategies and customer interaction.
One of the biggest challenges in big data analytics is communicating insights back to users. Many organizations rely on dashboards and visualization tools to display the analytic results. Now a new crop of tools is using big data to generate written narratives that explain to users what's happening in plain English.
Narrative Science, the leader in automated narrative generation for the enterprise, today announced that NHS Choices, the official website of the National Health Service and managed by the Health and Social Care Information Centre, has chosen the Quill™ Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform to provide critical information to the general public via its website.
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International Metal Products in Chicopee, also known as IMP, plans to expand production and its workforce with a $350,000 loan secured through MassDevelopment and Nuvo Bank & Trust Co. The 100-year-old company makes polished metal products including rings for shampoo bottles and machine parts, but specializes in metal clips for pens. According to MassDevelopment, International Metal Products will use the $350,000 to meet toll and die design costs. The equipment has been ordered. The company is making the move because of increasing demand for it s products from around the world. International Metal Products expects the expansion to create ...(Read Full Article)
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A Westfield company will receive a tax discount on its upcoming expansion, but city councilors were quick say the deal is different from a recent controversial tax deal with another local company. At Thursday night's city council meeting, Tell Tool Inc. was awarded a tax increment financing agreement (TIF) for a 30,000-square-foot expansion to its facility on Turnpike Industrial Road in Westfield. The company has been in Westfield for more than 45 years, and as part of the agreement it will add 17 new employees. In the TIF, Tell Tool receives a tax break on the expanded portion ...(Read Full Article)
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Hasbro, which has a board game factory in East Longmeadow, is in talks to merge with DreamWorks Animation, a Hollywood player run by mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, according to published reports. In recent years, Hasbro has been seeking its fortunes in the entertainment industry, taking game franchises like 'Battleship' to the silver screen. Dreamworks Animation is known for the 'How to Train Your Dragon' and 'Madagascar' films.(Read Full Article)
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Westfield Voc-Tech aviation program, Franklin Tech manufacturing center highlighted in report on school-industry collaboration | masslive
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Westfield Vocational Technical School's plan to create a hands-on aviation technology program and Franklin County Technical School's revamped machine program could serve as a model for similar co-operative programs around the state. That's contention supported in the new report out Thursday: 'Filling the Skills Gap: Massachusetts Vocational-Technical Schools and Business Partnerships' from the Pioneer Institute.(Read Full Article)
South Hadley Town Meeting approves tax break for Mohawk Fine Papers to locate envelope plant in town
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Town Meeting on Wednesday unanimously approved a tax break for Mohawk Fine Papers, Inc. - matching a similar action recently taken by Chicopee City Council, as the two communities strive to persuade the company to locate in their municipality. Mohawk officials attended the South Hadley meeting and told reporters after the affirmative vote they liked what they saw.(Read Full Article)
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CNR MA expects to break ground on its new, $60 million plant sometime in 2015, just as planned worker-training programs begin to gear up. The initial project to build 152 Orange Line cars and 132 Red Line cars — replacing vehicles that have been in use for between 35 and 45 years — is set to continue until a planned delivery date of 2021, but by then, the company is hopeful that an expanded workforce will be busy with other projects well into the future. "This is huge," Cruise said, "not only for the whole issue of job creation, but also for ...(Read Full Article)
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37 jobs, $2 million investment possibility has South Hadley Selectboard supporting tax break for envelope company; Town Meeting to vote also
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Mohawk Fine Papers, Inc. is eyeing two locations: one in South Hadley Falls, and one in Chicopee, and is expected to make their decision next month. Both communities are offering the tax break, South Hadley Town Administrator Michael Sullivan said. According to an application Mohawk filed with the Massachusetts Office of Business Development, the firm plans to manufacture 500 million envelopes annually. The company says in the state application they would employ 37 full-time, invest $2 million in a 100,000-square-foot parcel they would lease from Lakestar Properties, and "engage the South Hadley Electric Light Department to determine Mohawk's ...(Read Full Article)
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The MassDOT Board of Directors unanimously approved a contract worth at least $556.6 million with CNR Changchun Railway Vehicles to build MBTA subway cars in Springfield at anew $60 million factory. The CNR factory means 100 construction jobs. When operational, the facility will create 150 new manufacturing jobs. The site selected by CNR Changchun on Page Boulevard was once home to Westinghouse and was attractive to Changchun because its 40 acres were cleared for possible casino development. The site also has high-capacity power lines and access to both CSX rail lines and to Interstate 291. The MBTA is buying ...(Read Full Article)
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Viewpoint: CNR Changchun's plan to build facility in Springfield complements bright future for region
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The governor revealed that CNR Changchun Railway Vehicles Co. will build a 125,000-square-foot rail car assembly plant and a 33,700-square-foot office building on this East Springfield graveyard of 7,000 good-paying industrial jobs. The factory's initial work will be to assemble $1.5 billion worth of new cars for Boston's Red and Orange lines, but the Chinese plan to make this their North American headquarters.(Read Full Article)
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Meridian Industrial Group, a Holyoke company that specializes in machining very large parts for the power generation, medical, defense and aerospace industries, has received a $63,900 worker-training grant from the state. The company will use the grant to train 28 employees and add three more. It has a total of 30 employees. The grant was one of 28 grants from the Workforce Training Fund announced recently by Labor and Workforce Development Secretary Rachel Kaprielian. The grants are awarded through the Commonwealth Corp. All told, they will go to 72 companies around Massachusetts.(Read Full Article)
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"I'm very pleased that we have two world-class companies that are in competition for the MBTA bid and have found that Springfield is their top spot," Springfield Mayor Domenic J. Sarno said Friday."It brings a lot of good paying precision machining jobs, a lot of opportunity and a growing tax base." There are a number of other bidders. But no others are interested in Springfield, said Allan W. Blair, president and CEO of the Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts. Blair expects the MBTA to make a decision very soon, probably in November. "It certainly is good for ...(Read Full Article)
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VSS, the former Valley Steel Stamp, in Greenfield grew from 25 employees to 50 employees once Franklin County Technical School improved and expanded its machine technology program. But if machine technology programs were even bigger, VSS would already be at 100 employees and still growing, said Steve Capshaw, president of the company which does commercial and aerospace machining. Growth in the aircraft business, a demand for increasingly sophisticated parts, rising wages in China and increasing transportation costs all lead to increased opportunities for VSS. 'We have competed with China for business and have been quite successful,' Capshaw said(Read Full Article)
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GCC Wins Award for Excellence in Manufacturing Training
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The Tooling U-SME Platinum Education Center (TUPEC) awards are presented to educational facilities that serve as models in the manufacturing industry when it comes to developing an outstanding learning culture. Schools are selected based on adoption of Tooling U-SME's online training program and strong utilization rates of online training in a blended learning format. These six schools join 21 other past TUPEC awardees.(Read Full Article)
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Smith & Wesson has a vested interest in students at the Roger L. Putnam Vocational Technical Academy. Putnam students, who are learning advanced manufacturing techniques, represent the future of a company that depends on the pipeline of skilled workers the firearms maker needs to compete in a global economy, according to Mark Smith, vice president of manufacturing and supply management at Smith & Wesson.(Read Full Article)
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Friday is National Advanced Manufacturing Day, but the Governor kicked it up a notch, planning week-long events celebrating the industry's success here in the Bay State. Advanced Manufacturing is a growing industry in Massachusetts, especially in western parts of the state. So far, more than 7-thousand manufacturing firms have offices in the Bay State, creating 250-thousand jobs. The Patrick administration will spend the rest of the week highlighting manufacturing's impact on the state and the programs in place to help the industry flourish.(Read Full Article)
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A plastic manufacturing company that has been in Westfield for 40 years is ready to make some changes, and it's negotiating a tax deal with the city to do so. Prolamina, formerly Jen-Coat, is hoping for a Special Tax Assessment that will coincide with improvements to its Elm Street headquarters. City Advancement Officer Joe Mitchell said the company plans significant changes, and the city needs to incentivize investment in Prolamina's Westfield location. "The status quo is not an option," Mitchell said. Prolamina opened its Westfield location in 1971 and has 256 full-time employees. Mitchell said the STA will ...(Read Full Article)
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Associated Industries of Massachusetts soliciting input from businesses across
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hat is one of the queries on a 13-question survey Associated Industries of Massachusetts is taking around the Commonwealth, taking the temperature of employers as it develops an economic development platform called "Blueprint for the Next Century" John Regan, Associated Industries' executive vice president for government affairs, admits the name sounds a bit grandiose. It's a play on the state-wide business lobbying group's 100th anniversary in 2015. Associated Industries was founded in 2015 by manufacturers, including paper mills, mostly based in the western portion of the state who felt they needed a stronger unified voice when speaking to ...(Read Full Article)
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"The Manufacturing Futures Program has spurred creative ways to support the Massachusetts manufacturing industry, from bulk energy buying to save money on utilities to raising awareness of manufacturing careers," said MassDevelopment Executive Vice President of Finance Programs Laura Canter. "These innovation centers will serve small- and medium-sized manufacturers at a greatly reduced cost, and we look forward to the partnerships that will develop."
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You can't rent it for the night, but Westfield-based Mestek Co. and its Dadanco division wants you to buy the super-efficient made-in Westfield HVAC technology the company has installed in that room and in the replica hospital room, laboratory, elementary-school-classroom and office at its Luxton-Reed Center. The $3.5 million office and research center is in the former H.B. Smith assembly factory at 47 industrial Park Road. Luxton-Reed is zero-net energy with the 406 solar panels on the roof making more energy on a good day than the facility uses. The idea behind the demonstration rooms, said Chris ...(Read Full Article)
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An Easthampton textile manufacturer will be before the city's Planning Board tonight seeking approval for a pair of antennas to provide a high-speed data communications link between its two buildings. National Nonwovens is upgrading its computer systems so it can grow and become part of the global marketplace, company president and CEO Anthony J. Centofanti said Tuesday. The antennas and wireless link between 110 Pleasant Street and 23 Mechanic Street are an essential part of that upgrade, he said. The antennas will be on existing building structures and won't be visible from Pleasant St., plans show. The installation ...(Read Full Article)
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Little Debbie Snacks, Oreos, Doritos, Diet Mountain Dew - sure doesn't sound like diet food. But a nutrition professor at Kansas State University ate only convenience store snacks for two months and he lost 27 pounds. The key: moderation.
Mark Haub kept his food intake below 1,800 calories a day - no extra exercise required. Professor Haub joins us from his office at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas.
Thanks very much for being with us.
Professor MARK HAUB (Kansas State University): Truly my pleasure.
SIMON: Give us some idea of what you ate in a typical - so-called typical day.
Prof. HAUB: Sure, yeah. So for - in essence I would have about four convenience store, vending machine items a day, with milk and a protein shake, and a moderate amount - moderate meaning one or two servings of vegetables a day. I didn't change physical activity, although that was a part of my lifestyle, but it was less than 60 to 90 minutes per week.
SIMON: So I mean let me get this straight. You didn't eat any of the things that are supposed to be really good for us, like fresh vegetables and whole grains.
Prof. HAUB: I avoided whole grains. I avoided fruits. I did eat some - you know, raw carrots and celery at dinner. I did eat some, but I tried to pick the foods that most people would consider as unhealthy.
SIMON: And you lost weight.
Prof. HAUB: Right.
SIMON: But how's your - for example, how's your cholesterol?
Prof. HAUB: Cholesterol started out at 214 and decreased to, I believe, 184. So it dropped about 20 percent.
SIMON: Was this a diet or an experiment?
Prof. HAUB: It was an experiment. Seems to be a disconnect. You have certain people like Dr. Glenn Gaesser, Paul Campos and a few others who - you know, Paul Campos wrote the book "The Obesity Myth," and Glenn Gaesser wrote the book "Big Fat Lies," who make statements about, you know, we're really making a mountain out of a molehill with this whole obesity thing.
Whereas you have, on the flipside, you have a bunch of public health and health providers trying to push weight loss and to decrease obesity. And so, you know, I kind of took the stance of okay, well, let's say we reduce obesity, reduce body weight. Move somebody - me - from overweight to a healthy weight, but we do that with foods that aren't recommended. Is that healthy? That's kind of the exercise that I try to go over in class.
And, you know, if healthy, what are some of the risks and complications? I only looked at cholesterol. Are there other parameters that might be important to look at that may not show up?
SIMON: So Professor, may I ask. If you were on a deserted island - Twinkies or Ding-Dongs?
Prof. HAUB: Oh my. Wow. Could I have half of each?
(Soundbite of laughter)
SIMON: I'll have to consult our judges.
(Soundbite of laughter)
SIMON: You academics are always looking to change the...
Prof. HAUB: Hey, we always want our cake and we want to eat it too. Right?
SIMON: Well, Professor, thanks so much.
Prof. HAUB: My pleasure. Thanks for having me on.
SIMON: Mark Haub, professor of human nutrition at Kansas State.
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Feb. 25, 1958 v I E. R. MUELLER 2,824,561
- COMBINATION INFANT PACIFIER AND FEEDING DEVICE Filed May 2, 1957 United States Patent COMBINATION INFANT PACIFIER AND FEEDING DEVICE Erwin Richard Mueller, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Application May 2, 1957, Serial No. 656,596
2 Claims. (Cl. 128-252) This invention pertains to articles of manufacture called pacifiers.
Pacifiers are made according to various types and are usually nipple-shaped. They are used to appease crying children or to discourage their limb-sucking and other idiosyncrasies. Very often, the pacifier is dipped in honey or syrup to further tranquilize the infant. Unfortunately, the eliect is only short-lived for the dipped coating is only too rapidly diluted by saliva and the pacifier has to be dipped repeatedly.
A problem somewhat related to the above-outlined one concerns the difiiculty with which babies and infants are induced to take medicines or vitamins which have unpleasant tastes or aromas.
Upon considering the above problems, it has occurred to me to design a novel, container type, porous pacifier capable of holding a substantial amount of matter intended for consumption by babies.
The main object of my invention, therefor, is the provision of the above-identified device. An equally important object of my invention is the provision of means for simultaneously feeding and pacifying infants.
Another object of my invention is the provision of a pacifier having removable feeding means to permit the reloading of contents while the container part of it remains in the mouth of the infant.
Other objects and advantages of my invention will become apparent as the description thereof proceeds.
The single figure illustrating the invention is a sectional view of a pacifier embodying my invention.
As illustrated, the device of my invention is of elongated, tubular, nipple-shape generally designated by reference character 1. The device terminates in a flanged, open end 2. Surrounding this end and abutting the flange is a disc 3 of considerable diameter of the type conventionally found on pacifiers to prevent swallowing of the same by the infant. The disc may be formed integrally with the pacifier body 1 or cemented to flange or shoulder 2.
Pacifier body 1 is provided with a plurality of perforations at. The diameter of these openings should be such as to permit the slow oozing out of the contents. Where such are of syrupy viscosity, the openings suitably are about 2 to 3 millimeters. Less viscous contents will require smaller perforations of about 1 mm.
Body 1, which is the container section of my device, is closed at its open end by stopper c. This stopper has a central longitudinal bore d, to equalize air pressure in the pacifier body. That extremity of the stopper extending into the body is enlarged to provide means for se- 2,824,561 Patented Feb. 25, 1958 curing thereto a small rubber or plastic tube b. The external part of the stopper is provided with a transverse bore to permit passage therethrough of string means 4 by means of which the stopper assembly including tube b may be removed from body 1.
In operating the device of my invention, the pacifier body 1 is filled with the desired contents, syrup, honey or medicines and closed with stopper 0. The device is given to the child who sucks in the contents which run slowly through the perforations in body 1.
The device may be given empty to the child, and the stopper assembly pulled out of it while the device is in the mouth of the child. The tube attached to the stopper then may be used medicine-dropper wise to replenish or fill body 1. By simply inserting the end of tube b in the desired contents, the same will function as a medicine dropper by capillary action if the tip of one finger is placed over the end of opening d.
An important advantage of my device is that the pacifier body may be refilled While in the mouth of the child by simply removing the stopper assembly or by supplying the contents to opening 0. by means of a medicine dropper or of a pipette, whereby measured and accurate doses of medicine or vitamins and food may be administered to the child while simultaneously pacifying it. Furthermore, the pacifier will create new possibilities for the pharmaceutical industry in providing various sorts of baby-pills for various purposes and needs, such as: pacifying, where the pills may be enriched with minerals, vitamins, or remedies against cough, colds, fever, diarrhoea, constipation and other typical troubles.
Obviously the device of my invention may be operated while empty as a conventional pacifier.
The device of my invention may be fabricated from various plastic materials such as methyl methacrylate, polyethylene, phenol-formaldehyde resins such as the Bakelite products, polyvinyl chloride or hard rubber.
While only one form of my invention has been shown and described herein, it will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art that many minor modifications may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the appended claims.
I claim:
1. A combination infant pacifier and feeding device comprising a hollow, perforated, elongated, nipple-shaped body serving as a container for contents to be consumed by an infant by sucking the same through the perforations therein, a stop disc mounted on said body surrounding the open end thereof, a stopper closing said open end, said stopper having a longitudinal bore therein and a tube depending therefrom extending into said body, means for removing said stopper from said body while the same is in the mouth of an infant, the combination of said stopper and said tube serving as means for refilling said body.
2. The combination of claim 1, wherein the perforations in said body are from A2 to 3 millimeters in diameter.
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The Google logo team has been busier than usual this week. After celebrating salsa singer Celia Cruz yesterday, today's Google logo includes an interactive image to mark the first parachute jump.
Performed by Andre-Jacque Garnerin on October 22, 1797, the jump occurred 216 years ago at Parc Monceau in Paris from a descent of approximately 3,000 meters out of a hydrogen balloon. Two years after his historical parachute jump, Garnerin's future wife Jeanne Genevieve Labrosse would become the first female parachutist.
The logo includes an interactive game that lets users shift the parachute's fall using the right and left arrow keys, helping the illustrated Garnerin land either on the ground, in the sea, or on a sailboat.
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Gartner Announces Ranking of Top 15 European Supply Chains
This week, Gartner unveiled its annual regional listing of what the analyst firm considers to be fifteen of the best supply chains in the European region. Gartner conducts this ranking as a supplement to its Top 25 Global Supply Chain rankings that are traditionally announced in the fall. According to Gartner, the top three European supply chains, Unilever,Inditex and H&M, remain unchanged and continue to lead in supply chain excellence while Seagate Technology made its debut in the number four ranking. Three new company supply chains also made a presence in the Gartner Europe ranking.
The published ranking for Europe Top 15 supply chains were noted as:
- Unilever (ranked 4th in 2014 Top 25 global ranking)
- Inditex (ranked 11th in 2014 Top 25 global ranking)
- H&M (ranked 13th in 2014 Top 25 global ranking)
- Seagate Technology (ranked 20th in 2014 Top 25 ranking)
- Nestle (ranked 25th in 2014 Top 25 ranking)
- L'Oreal
- GlaxoSmithKline
- Diageo
- Ahold
- Delphi Automotive
- Volkswagen
- Reckitt Benckiser
- Syngenta
Similar to our view of this week's Gartner's Asia-Pacific rankings, Supply Chain Matters believes that this ranking reflects how we would have voted if we were part of the external or peer voting panel. Unilever is indeed a great supply chain competing in a very challenging CPG industry group. As we noted in our commentary associated with Gartner's Top 25 ranking, Unilever has made steady progress over the past three years and deserves special recognition. Inditex has long been an icon when describing a top retail focused supply chain that is extraordinary in sensing and responding to fashion and customer demand. Seagate Technology as well, has bounced back from the near disaster of disruption and supply shortages caused by the 2011 floods in Thailand. L'Oreal has made great strides in integrating supply chain planning and execution across its supply chain business network. Nestle deserves its recognition especially in leading with industry-leading supply chain sustainability initiatives.
Three of the Gartner European Top 15 reside in the automotive industry sector which has been an industry segment not previously noted for consistent supply chain excellence. Both BMW and Volkswagen have been deploying a global based product platform strategy and have weathered the European economic crisis through a focus on international markets.
Also noteworthy is the appearance of two pharmaceutical supply chains, Glaxo and Reckitt in Gartner's Europe ranking.
We believe that a ranking of the top Europe supply chains has even more significance given the ongoing challenges related to the severe economic conditions that have impacted Europe. These are supply chains that had to demonstrate various aspects of resiliency to insure required business and product outcomes.
Supply Chain Matters again extends its congratulations and recognition to each of the named supply chain organizations for achieving such recognition. There is obviously hard work that goes into achieving such recognition and citation and it should be acknowledged.
Bob Ferrari
Gartner Announces Top Ten Best Supply Chains in Asia Pacific Region
Today, Gartner published its annual regional listing of what the analyst firm considers to be ten of the best supply chains in the Asia-Pacific region. Gartner conducts this ranking as a supplement to its Top 25 Global Supply Chain Rankings that are traditionally announced in the fall. According to Gartner, while most of these regionally-based supply chains still need to elevate their supply chain capabilities to compete on a global level, many have dramatically improved their position.
The published ranking for Asia-Pacific Top Ten supply chains were noted as:
- Samsung Electronics (ranked 6th in 2014 Top 25 global ranking)
- Lenovo Group (ranked 16th in 2014 Top 25 global ranking)
- Toyota (reported to have moved up three places in the top ten Asia-Pacific and up 22 places in global ranking but not in current 2014 Top 25 global ranking)
- Hyundai
- Huawei
- Woolworths
- Honda
- Flextronics
- LG Electronics
- Sony
Overall, Supply Chain Matters believes that this ranking reflects how we would have voted if we were part of the external or peer voting panel. Samsung is especially noteworthy since by many accounts its supply chain is supporting more product and perhaps process innovation than that of its arch competitor, Apple. It is quite interesting to note the appearance of three automotive OEM's in the Asia Pacific ranking while there are no automotive OEM's ranked in the global Top 25 rankings. We have been especially impressed with Honda's global manufacturing sourcing strategies that have helped the company overcome currency challenges and better service global product demand.
At least three of the Gartner Asia-Pacific top ten, namely Samsung, Lenovo and Hyundai practice some form of supply chain vertical integration strategies.
However we were somewhat quite taken-back by the appearance of Sony's in this top ten ranking, given its profitability challenges in the past few years. Sony has also been aggressively outsourcing parts of its television and certain parts of its consumer electronics supply chain to contract manufacturers in order to aggressively reduce costs. Gartner's own admission is that Sony is lagging behind some of major competitors.
Again, we are shocked with the lack of recognition toward Foxconn Technology (Hon- Hai Precision), the world's largest contract manufacturer by revenue and output volume. Foxconn is a major supplier and serves as the lead contract manufacturer for Gartner's consistently ranked number one global supply chain of Apple. This CMS's ability to respond to Apple's intense product innovation requirements as well as rapidly scale volume production is highly noteworthy. We remain highly curious as to why Flextronics does not appear in this top ten regional ranking, let alone the global ranking, but then again, social responsibility strategies concerning workers may be a weighting factor. Another supply chain worthy of consideration is that of TSMC, the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer.
Supply Chain Matters has featured commentaries on many of Gartner's ranked top ten Asia Pacific supply chains. They can be accessed by utilizing our Search box: i.e. Samsung supply chain.
Bob Ferrari
The Tesla Gigafactory Site Selection is Made: Surprise-Surprise!
Supply Chain Matters has featured many ongoing commentaries regarding electric powered automotive manufacturer Tesla Motors and its bold "gigafactory" strategic supply strategy. Our last commentary published in mid-August on this topic reflected on the high frenzy of lobbying and proposed incentives among various U.S. states to be designated as the designated site for this massive factory, but the betting for the final site was leaning heavily towards a particular site, that being Nevada.
This afternoon, the formal announcement regarding the chosen site for this massive $5 billion supply facility will be made but business and general media has already running stories concerning disclosed the site, which is an industrial complex near Reno Nevada.
Let's re-visit the four strategic objectives outlined in our mid-August commentary in light of today's expected announcement:
Bold supply chain vertical integration
As more information comes to light, there is no doubt in the lens of Supply Chain Matters that Tesla has elected a bold vertical integration strategy. The massive scale of this facility is targeted at reducing the unit costs of lithium-ion batteries by 30 percent. Current reports now cite the statistic that at total capacity, capable of supplying up to 500,000 electric vehicles per year, the plant capacity exceeds than all of the entire automotive industry's current lithium-ion battery supply needs. However, other information now coming to light indicates that Tesla's supply strategy extends beyond current automotive industry needs, and could include electric storage needs for public utility, alternative energy or other industry needs.
There are new reports that the Nevada site selection has considerations for being powered by solar, wind and/or geothermal energy methods. as well as being a potential supplier of electrical storage to Las Vegas casinos and entertainment complexes.
Proximity to key commodity supply and transport networks
The site itself is rather close to supplies of the all-important raw material of lithium supply. A report posted on SiliconValley.com observes that Rockwood Lithium, the only operating bulk lithium supplier in the United States could easily supply needed raw material. The sire itself, to be located within the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center is approximately a four hour drive from Tesla's primary Fremont assembly facility, and does provide for rail services.
A well trained and technically savvy workforce
Currently, Nevada has one of the highest unemployment rates in the United States. No doubt, the State of Nevada probably included workforce training incentives to staff the new facility. This facility is expected to be highly automated, but previous estimates pegged overall employment at 6500 at full capacity.
Subsidies that may well defray the overall cost burden.
In its reporting of the Tesla Nevada site selection, the Wall Street Journal noted: "Nevada likely offered Tesla one of the largest incentive packages in the history of the U.S. automotive industry." Reports reinforce Tesla's prior statements indicating expectations that the designated states would defray upwards of $500 million of this facility's total $5 billion costs. The Governor of Nevada is expected to convene a special session of that state's legislature to finalize details of the overall incentives package. We'll know in the coming days the details of such subsidies, but as noted above, early indicators point to a substantial package.
Tesla is a company whose boldness extends across its entire value-chain. Today's announcement of Reno Nevada as the site as one of the largest single factories ever constructed in the United States is a testament to such boldness and initiative. The race to a 2017 volume production now begins.
Bob Ferrari
In Automotive Industry, Mexico is Indeed Becoming A North America and Export Production Center
In a previous Supply Chain Matters commentary in early July, we noted a rising tide of production sourcing investments in Mexico among global based automotive OEM's. Automotive OEM's BMW, Honda, Mazda,Volkswagen's Audi Group, and a partnership among Nissan and Daimler had each announced Mexican production sourcing decisions that amounted to billions of dollars of investment. In our commentary, we pointed to significantly more attractive direct labor rates, tariff-free access to markets, foreign currency challenges and global logistics as all contributing to the attractiveness of Mexico as a prime product export center.
This week featured news of yet another global based automotive producer electing to source production in Mexico. South Korea based Kia Motors, an operating division of Hyundai Motor, announced its intention to also invest in a $1 billion automotive assembly plant in Mexico with capacity to produce upwards of 300,000 vehicles.
Obviously, such a trend implies that a global production strategy is at-play within these moves. Despite a large amount of excess production capacity across Europe, European automotive OEM's elected to invest. We can now observe that Asia based OEM's, are joining the sourcing tide for electing Mexico. Additionally, when a concentrated group of OEM's make such significant investments in a particular geographic region, the supply chain supplier ecosystem follows, creating the basis of a self-contained value-chain ecosystem that further contributes to cost and supply chain efficiencies for the region.
As noted in July, with the current strategic sourcing attraction of Mexico, global automotive OEM's gain even more flexibility in determining the most profitable supply chain sourcing and production paths to support global demand or offset currency fluctuations. Mexico itself has the opportunity to evolve as a major global hub of automotive exports beyond North America.
The obvious loser in this tide is expansion of U.S. based automotive production. While U.S. based OEM's such as Ford and General Motors balance their production investments among the specific global region supporting a consumer market, they have not tended to position U.S. manufacturing capability as an export weapon. Global based OEM's have attracted to the U.S. southern region where local governments and their political leaders have provided very attractive monetary incentives and promises of right-to-work laws that inhibit organized labor unions.
The current wave of announcements targeting Mexico is now a clear sign of a far broader wave of strategy unfolding, since such sourcing spans previous smaller, low-margin models and now includes a broader range of production sourcing that include mid-range and luxury models. Thus U.S. manufacturing resurgence concerning automotive production is tempered by the rising tide of Mexico which will become a far larger global production and export presence. Cudo's to Mexico's leaders in providing the incentives and infrastructure to fuel such attractiveness.
Do not misconstrue that in this commentary, our intent is to not advocate pro or con organized labor, or legislative incentives that lure automotive OEM's to certain regions, but rather to point out how such considerations can and do motivate sourcing decisions.
There is obviously a lot of learning to be gained for U.S. and local state legislative leaders and perhaps that learning is too late when it comes to global automotive supply chain capability.
Bob Ferrari
The Tesla Gigafactory Site Selection Frenzy is Reaching Peak
This is a follow-up commentary related to Tesla Motors, specifically this electric powered automotive manufacturer's efforts in supply in deploying a broader supply chain vertical integration strategy. In our Supply Chain Matters commentary in February, we noted Tesla's announcement to build its own $5 billion electric battery supply facility which is termed the "gigafactory", capable of supplying up to 500,000 electric vehicles per year. That level of supply commitment exceeds Tesla's current planned output and implies providing a U.S. based manufacturing presence for electric batteries that would be available to other automotive and vehicle producers. Tesla currently supplies batteries for the ToyotaRAV4 EV and the Mercedes B-Class electric.
We noted that the strategy savvy, given that when one reflects on the entire value-chain and cost-of-goods sold (COGS) for an electric Tesla Motors Model S powered automobile, the batteries are indeed the highest portion of material cost. Tesla expects that the new factory would reduce its current battery costs by 30 percent in its first year,
In late July, during its second-quarter earnings report, Tesla executives made a side announcement indicating that the company had reached a final agreement with Panasonic Corp. as the supplier partner in the construction and operation of the planned gigafactory. Five western U.S. states continue to be cited as potential sites for either one or two linked supply facilities, although site work has actually begun in an area near Reno Nevada. Other potential U.S. states in the running are Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas. The western portion of the U.S. is an obvious choice because of its proximity to the supply of lithium carbonate, a key raw material for lithium-ion batteries.
Journalist Michelle Quinn pens in a report posted by the San Jose Mercury News that the potential for landing this new battery factory with upwards of 6500 manufacturing continues to fuel a massive wooing and lobbying effort among each of the potential states. State legislatures are rushing through incentive packages to sweeten prospects in their individual states and Governors and city mayors have resorted to novel efforts in demonstrating enthusiasm and keen interest. One example, Texas Governor Rick Perry drove a Tesla Model S to California and taunted California officials about the overwhelming advantages of locating manufacturing in the Lone Star State. Quinn describes these lobbying efforts as a 'beauty pageant" and: "if a song and dance could help (California), let's do it."
Readers should recall that Boeing launched a nationwide RFP bidding effort among potential U.S. states for selection of component and final assembly facilities for its new announced 777x commercial aircraft program. In our January posting, Collaboration According to Boeing, we noted that Boeing's ultimate objective was to secure the most lucrative economic incentives related to production sourcing. Boeing was in-essence conducting a reverse auction, seeking the lowest economic bidder. In the end, a package of incentives described as the largest of its kind in U.S. history assured that new generation 777 production would remain in the OEM's current Seattle area.
One of the learnings from the deep economic recession of 2008-2009 is that state, local and provincial governments will do all that is required to secure needed jobs and an economic future in times of uncertain economic growth. If that requires massive incentives in tax breaks, site location subsidies, workforce training and infrastructure developments, so be it. Current efforts among local and state governments to top one another only adds to the reality that manufacturers can hold out for the sweetest deal available with lucrative benefits. Appearances, stunts and lobbying add more leveraging power for the manufacturer.
In the specific case of Tesla, a company well known for its innovative and bold thinking. When the company announced that it would manufacture autos in California, many auto industry observers scoffed at that decision. California is not known as a low-cost manufacturing region.
The ultimate selection of its U.S. based battery gigafactory will accomplish four objectives:
- Bold supply chain vertical integration
- Proximity to key commodity supply and transport networks
- A well trained and technically savvy workforce
- Subsidies that may well defray the overall cost burden.
At this point, Tesla has more than likely honed its selection list based on the above objectives. The thinking is bold and timing is exquisite. It's time to move beyond the politics and to the objective at-hand.
Volkswagen Announces Expanded Investment in the United States
Volkswagen announced today that the company plans to add a long awaited 7 passenger mid-sized SUV to the U.S. auto market in late 2016 and that the design and production of this vehicle will originate from VW's current facility in Chattanooga Tennessee.
The German based automaker indicated that it plans to invest $600 million to both establish a new research center to be named National Research& Development and Planning Center to help design this new SUV and expand the existing Chattanooga to accommodate a new SUV production line. The new research center is expected to employ upwards of 200 engineers while an additional 538,000 square feet of capacity and an incremental 2000 factory jobs will be added to the U.S. facility. With this new incremental investment, annual production volumes at Chattanooga would rise to 250,000 vehicles.
The company re-iterated that from 2014-2018, it will be investing more than $7 billion in capital resources in both the U.S. and Mexico in order to fulfill its goal to deliver 800,000 vehicles in U.S. and North America sales volume.
This new model is to be based on the CrossBlue concept, developed specifically for the North American market and unveiled last year at the Detroit Auto Show. According to a posting by Car and Driver, the model is designed to compete with the likes of the Honda Pilot, Ford ExplorerJeep Grand Cherokee, Nissan Pathfinder and Toyota Highlander. Emphasis is on style and very high fuel economy including a diesel powered version. This Car and Driver article published in January 2013 declared that it was almost a certainty that the SUV would be produced in Chattanooga. So much for hype, drama and speculation.
Business media has widely reported that efforts by VW to broaden its penetration of the U.S. auto market continue to stall. According to a published report from Bloomberg regarding the latest announcement, VW's U.S. sales declined 22 percent in June, accelerating an overall annual decline of 13 percent for the first-half of 2014. That is counter to a reported 4.2 percent increase in the overall U.S. market during the same period.
Readers may recall that in mid-February an effort to have workers at Chattanooga represented by the United Auto Workers union was narrowly defeated. The Chattanooga production facility was one of a very few Volkswagen global based facilities not having a formal Works Council and thus the German based IG Metall labor union advocated to Volkswagen's senior management to encourage the formation of such a structure in the U.S. The ultimate vote failed to win a majority, but the vote was close, with a final reported tally of 712 to 626 indicating rejection of labor union organization. Leading up to the vote, a highly charged campaign by local legislators and activists alleging that union representation would jeopardize any future work being sourced at the plant, including the pending SUV model. Today's VW announcement includes statements from many of the same politicians echoing the positive implications for the local economy.
However, VW may also be addressing the need for more open worker input to decisions. Today's VW announcement additionally indicates that Bernd Osterloh, head of VW's General and Works Council will join the Board of Directors of Volkswagen Group of America "to play a more concentrated role in shaping our U.S. strategy in the future." In the press release, Osterioh indicates that he is "determined to uphold the interests of Volkswagen employees in Chattanooga. Previous media reports have quoted Osterloh as indicating that having a Works Council was an important factor that would play into whether another product would be made in the U.S. facility. Of more interest, four days ago, the UAW also announced that it will open a branch office close to the Tennessee facility.
Obviously, VW is late to the party in introducing a U.S. model SUV, and two years is a long time in today's consumer's markets. This is a high stakes effort that requires total collaboration and succinct decision-making. Engineering, product management, supply chain and production teams will have to highly synchronize efforts to assure the 2016 milestone will happen. For its part, VW corporate will have to shed its centralized decision-making model and let the new North America based research center carry the ball.
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