Tag: May 2012
Auburn Legos Model Toyota Production
Just-in-time delivery, carefully coordinated production lines, Toyota-style lean manufacturing and an eagle eye to safety make the automotive engineering lab at...
Out of the Ordinary
A WILD RIDE David Turner | President, BancorpSouth, Mobile | River Rafting David Turner can’t remember camping out a single...
From Rail Cars to Garbage Trucks
The enormous plant built to make railcars in the Shoals has been redeployed by Navistar to make a designed-from-scratch garbage hauler dubbed the...
Rocket Science and Brain Surgery
Improving Alloys and Electronics Since 1987, Huntsville-based Computational Fluid Dynamics Research Corp. has worked on many government and commercial M&S programs, ...
Spotlight on Coastal Gateway
The Coastal Gateway region—Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia and Monroe counties—has an abundance of natural resources, a key location on the...
HB56 Back in the Shop
While lawmakers try to repair the state’s toughest-in-the-nation immigration law and fend off challenges from federal court rulings, the controversy continues to...
War Games
Modern warfare is a complicated business, involving an intricate interplay of men, machines and supply. The Department of Defense increasingly hires...
BA—“It’s All Here”
Business Alabama, now in it’s 26th year of publication, introduces this month a new design for the cover, including a...
Two More for $691 Million
Mobile’s Austal USA got the go-ahead for construction of two more littoral combat ships, the third and fourth under its 10-ship contract...
FBI, UAB Students Snare Hackers
It’s a tale of intrigue that reads like a high-tech spy movie, the way NBC News tells it. Eastern European crooks tap...