LANSING - U.S. Army veteran and Purple Heart recipient David Balestrino Jr. has been named honorary starter for the Pure Michigan 400 to be held Sunday at Michigan International Speedway. Balestrino was the winner of a fan contest on the Pure Michigan Facebook page, receiving the highest number of votes for his entry on why
GRAND RAPIDS - Dematic, a supplier of logistics systems for the factory, warehouse and distribution center, has introduced FlexSort SL2, a high capacity package sorting system - the next generation sliding shoe sorter that incorporates many new design features. The Dematic FlexSort SL2 is applied throughout the warehouse or distribution center in areas, such as
TRAVERSE CITY ? BASF, the international chemical company, won the inaugural Altair Enlighten Award competition for the development of its thermoplastic composite front seat pan (by GM Opel, BASF). The award, presented in collaboration with the Center for Automotive Research, is the automotive industry's first award program created specifically to acknowledge innovations in vehicle light-weighting.
TROY - Automation Alley added 22 new members in July. The Southeast Michigan technology marketing group provides discounted event admission, free meeting space, a press release system with more than 4,900 subscribers, and recruitment assistance. ?A membership to Automation Alley opens the door to collaboration, opportunity and business growth for the technology companies in our
HERNDON, Va. - Volkswagen of America Thursday July sales fell 3.3 percent compared to a 1.3 percent year-to-date decrease the previous year. ?We continue to see a healthy demand for the Volkswagen brand, despite the fact that we are entering a period of consolidated growth as we phase out 2013 Model Year vehicles,? said Mark
ANN ARBOR ? Llamasoft has opened a new training center featuring expert-led product training courses as well as instruction in strategic supply chain modeling techniques and methodologies. LLamasoft has designed a wide variety of supply chain design training courses in order to fit the needs of customers just getting started in supply chain design all
SOUTHFIELD - Brooks Kushman has established an Open Sourcing Management practice group. Brooks Kushman's OSM group helps companies understand and select OSS, and comply with OSS license terms. As an intellectual property law firm, Brooks Kushman can assist organizations in this area both to identify a company?s current and future OSS status, as well as
ANN ARBOR - Citizen satisfaction with government websites remains flat according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index E-Government Satisfaction Index, released Tuesday in partnership with customer analytics firm ForeSee. Citizen satisfaction with federal government websites scores 75 on the ACSI?s 100-point scale. Satisfaction has remained at or near 75 on ACSI?s 100-point scale since 2009.
ANN ARBOR - Merit Network announced Wednesday that it has completed milestones for its REACH-3MC Round II fiber-optic construction project. REACH-3MC Round II began in August 2010 when Merit received grant funding to construct 1,270 miles of fiber-optic infrastructure across 29 counties in Michigan's Northern Lower and Upper Peninsula with additional paths to key interconnection
ANN ARBOR ? Listen up E-Business. You're not doing a very good job of keeping your Internet customers happy, according to the latest survey from customer experience analytics company ForeSee Results. Its customer satisfaction scores for e-business tumbled to its lowest level since 2003 according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index E-Business Report. E-business, which