Akrapovic, with three factories, employs 600 people making high-quality titanium exhaust pipes for motorbikes and sports cars.
Chris Anderson is the founder of DIYDrones, an open source community with 12, 000 people and three factories around the world.
Consider these facts: A minority student is four times more likely than a non-minority student to attend a high school with very low graduation rates (so-called "dropout factories") and three times less likely to attend a high school with very high graduation rates.
In other words, short of the federal government undertaking major reform of America's creaking health-care system, the Big Three will find it hard to compete with the transplant factories.
The company also has just emerged from a spate of labor problems, with two local union strikes at key factories and a nearly three-month strike at key parts maker American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings.
The company also has just emerged from a spate of labor problems, with two local union strikes at key factories and a nearly three-month strike at key parts maker American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings (nyse: AXL - news - people ).
Reason: The UAW will concede job reductions at the Big Three if it can offset them with more union jobs at supplier factories.
Xinhua reports that technology giant FoxConn, which manufactures products for Apple and other computer companies, is working to reduce labor costs by replacing a portion of their workforce with robots, with a goal of having one million robots in place in their factories within three years.
FORBES: FoxConn to Replace Workers With Robots; Aim For One Million Robots In Three Years
Nearly all of its factories, including the three being converted to carmaking, will be equipped with machinery that will allow Ford to switch among multiple models and thus respond more quickly to changing consumer demands.
China's "Torch" program fast-tracks industries, attracting entrepreneurs with offers of cheap land for factories, export tax breaks and even a free apartment for three years.
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