NORTHVILLE - Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America Tuesday announced plans to invest approximately $70 million in its Mason, Ohio, and Maysville, Ky. plants. The investment in equipment and assembly lines strengthens Mitsubishi Electric?s capabilities to produce high efficiency alternators and electric power steering products in North America. The investment also allows the company to meet its
NORTHVILLE - DataFactZ has invested $1.5 million to create its Global Delivery Center in Gachibowli, India, a major technology hub for companies around the world. The GDC will provide business intelligence and data warehousing services to DataFactZ?s growing list of clients. The 11,500 sq. ft. GDC in India provides clients with offshore services, enhanced flexibility,
BLOOMFIELD HILLS - Expetec Technology Services has joined the Business Improvement Team, a consortium of independent consulting companies. Expetec Technology Services implements, supports and manages Information Technology and VoIP systems for small to medium sized businesses in southeast Michigan. The other member companies are Absolute Engineering & Consulting, LLC, Clear Vision Strategy LLC, Expense Reduction
TROY - Altair Thursday introduced HyperWorks Virtual Wind Tunnel, a streamlined and high quality vertical application designed to improve wind tunnel simulation for the automotive industry. Using several of Altair?s state-of-the-art technologies from advanced meshing to high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics simulation, and designed with an intuitive, highly automated and streamlined workflow and user interface, HyperWorks
AUBURN HILLS - More than 1.1 million meals were donated to local food banks across North America in September as part of Faurecia North America?s corporate-giving initiative, Faurecia Unites with Employees for Local Service. Faurecia and its employees have provided more than 2.4 million meals since the program began in 2010. Throughout September, which marks
DETROIT ? TechTown Detroit has won an $800,000 three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for community economic development to support SWOT City Detroit, expanding the program into three new neighborhoods ? the East Jefferson Corridor, Grandmont Rosedale and Osborn. The three-year grant shows the federal government?s commitment to Detroit and
GRAND RAPIDS - Community Resource Connect is a great opportunity for individuals to receive on the spot services including legal advice, DHS application help, resume writing assistance and more. More than 20 organizations will be present to offer their services. Organizations involved include the Women?s Resource Center, Cherry Street Health Services and Grand Rapids Family
ANN ARBOR ? Supply chain software company Llamasoft has developed a new product called Inventory Guru, powered by Adaptive Intelligent Inventory Optimization (AI+IO) technology, which thoroughly analyzes and automatically classifies demand patterns, then recommends right-sized end-to-end stocking levels and ordering strategies. Inventory Guru is a fully-integrated module within LLamasoft Supply Chain Guru supply chain modeling
WASHINGTON DC - Networking experts from ESnet, Indiana University and Internet2 are launching a new workshop series to help accelerate the deployment of next-gen research networks that can more effectively support data-intensive science. Called the Operating Innovative Networks or OIN Workshop Series, the meetings are designed for university or government research laboratory network engineers seeking
SOUTHFIELD - What will 2014 hold for some of Michigan?s most critical industries, such as Energy, Healthcare, Transportation, Automotive, and more? The Engineering Society of Detroit?s Economic Forecast Conference on Oct. 17 will host a cadre of experts, who will outline the future of these industries and how it will impact stakeholders and consumers. The