Manufacturing

Nearly half of the supply chain experts surveyed in the latest Marquette-ISM Report on Manufacturing expect business conditions to get worse in the next six months.

In another world, without a global pandemic, the late-February mass shooting at Molson Coors’ Milwaukee brewery might have been a major topic on the company’s first quarter earnings call.

Molson Coors Beverage Co. says the cost of reimbursing bars for untapped kegs and not being able to sell finished kegs soon enough will cost it around $50 million.

Dan Sinykin, president of Janesville-based Monterey Mills, decided his company had to act fast once he saw reports of nationwide PPE shortages as the fight against COVID-19 ramped up in mid-March. 

The City of Cudahy Health Department on Wednesday said that 503 people have been tested for COVID-19 from April 24 to 28 as part of an investigation of the coronavirus outbreak at the Patrick Cudahy meatpacking plant.

When Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation offered guidance in January, the company’s executives predicted organic sales growth for the fiscal year would be flat.

In the first 10 weeks of the year, Milwaukee-based Harley-Davidson was on pace for one of its best quarters of U.S. retail sales in the last six years.

Since reconfiguring its manufacturing capabilities five weeks ago to produce reusable face masks for frontline medical personnel, Janesville-based Monterey Mills, in partnership with Oak Creek-based Eder Flag, is now pumping out 65,000 face masks daily, fulfilling orders for large health care systems and first responders across the country. 

There are around 700 parts from 70 suppliers in the ventilators produced by a partnership between GM and Ventec Life Systems.

Madison-based WMEP Manufacturing Solutions is holding a webinar Thursday to discuss the results of its survey on how manufacturing...