Corey Williams

Associated Press

Improve the Accuracy of Demand Plans With Assumptions

Improve the Accuracy of Demand Plans With Assumptions

November 8, 2023

Only parts that have undergone rigorous QA control, in accordance with internal controls and established international quality standards are shipped.

Confidently Sourcing Electronic Chips on the Open Market

November 28, 2023

Will Tesla’s workers be the next to approve a UAW contract?

Next on UAW's To-Do List: Add More Members from Nonunion Factories

November 28, 2023

Slabtown Ss Fab Wall Moving Copy 1 Scaled

Update: Modular Homebuilder, Veev, to Shut Down

November 27, 2023

Protecting Your Smart Factory Against Cyber Threats

Protecting Your Smart Factory Against Cyber Threats

Is your factory’s connected machinery putting your operations at risk? Cyberattacks against manufacturing are rapidly increasing, with each incident costing an average of $4.7 million in 2022.

November 9, 2023

A worker opens the windows on the top floor of the new Godfrey Hotel, June 27, 2023, in Detroit.

Detroit: 10 Years After the Bankruptcy

The city's finances are better, but city workers and retirees feel burned.

July 17, 2023

An old factory building in Highland Park, Mich., a small Detroit enclave is seen on May 9, 2023.

Detroit Enclave Built on Auto Industry Struggles Under $20M Water Debt

The once thriving auto manufacturing town is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy because it cannot pay its bills.

May 19, 2023

Exterior of the Packard Plant on Detroit's east side, Thursday, June 30, 2022. The factory built in the early 1900s turned out high-end cars into the 1950s. It was considered one of the city's automotive jewels, but now is among the nation's most notorious examples of urban blight. Parts of the 3.5 million-square-foot, 40-acre Packard plant complex will be demolished by the year's end.

Detroit Targets Old Industry Sites to Improve Neighborhoods

The city has aggressively taken on its blight problem.

July 11, 2022

This photo shows the former Packard Motor Car Company campus, May 16, 2017 in Detroit. A judge has deemed the deteriorating Packard plant on Detroit's east side a public nuisance and ordered it's Peruvian owner to tear the former auto factory down. Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Brian Sullivan wrote in a March 31,2022, order that Fernando Palazuelo and his Arte Express Detroit must remove all rubbish and debris from the sprawling site that covers several city blocks and demolish all buildings and structures on the property.

Judge Orders Owner to Demolish Packard Plant in Detroit

It has become a public nuisance.

April 7, 2022

President Joe Biden speaks about the government's COVID-19 response, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022.

Biden to Double Free COVID Tests, Add N95s to Fight Omicron

The federal government has a stockpile of more than 750 million N95 masks.

January 14, 2022

The automaker pleaded guilty in March to conspiracy.

Automaker Admits Paying Off Union Leaders

The company was ordered to add an independent compliance monitor.

August 18, 2021

The Flint Water Plant tower is shown in Flint, Mich., Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. Some Flint residents impacted by months of lead-tainted water are looking past expected charges against former Gov. Rick Snyder and others in his administration to healing physical and emotional damages left by the crisis.

2 Ex-Health Officials Charged with Manslaughter in Flint

They were charged with involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of nine people who got Legionnaires’ disease during the Flint water crisis.

January 14, 2021

This Dec. 20, 2019 file photo provided by Michigan Department of Transportation shows toxic chemical substances leaking along Interstate 696 in Madison Heights, Mich.

'Green Ooze' Site Subject to Forfeiture

Five properties tied to Electro-Plating Services owe back taxes and interest.

February 13, 2020

Tina Wheeler, manager of Dan and Vi's pizza poses for a photo Thursday in Detroit. Dan and Vi’s pizza deli, one of the few eateries near the Detroit-Hamtramck General Motors plant, says sales have been down, though Wednesday’s noontime crowd snaked around the small shop nearly to the door.

UAW-GM Strike Proving Costly to Local Economy

As the strike churns through a fourth week, experts say lost wages means less spending, costing the state millions of dollars in tax revenue.

October 11, 2019

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan speaks with Detroit residents during a job readiness event where they pre-registered to apply for jobs at a coming Fiat Chrysler assembly plant on the eastside and another nearby facility operated by the automaker.

FCA Deal Gives Detroit Residents First Crack at Jobs

It's part of a $108M development deal for a new plant in a city where the unemployment rate is more than twice the national average.

August 12, 2019

In this Feb. 26, 2019 file photo, Jeep vehicles are parked outside the Jefferson North Assembly Plant in Detroit. Fiat Chrysler can move forward with plans to build a new, $1.6 million assembly plant on Detroit's Eastside and invest $900 million to retool and modernize another. The Detroit City Council on Tuesday approved land deals and community benefits agreements tied to the project. They include a four-week exclusive window Detroit residents will have to apply for jobs at the facilities once laid-off workers and temporary employees are considered. Fiat Chrysler expects to add 4,950 new jobs.

New Detroit Auto Plant Lands Incentives

The city approved a $223 million incentive package in exchange for 6,400 jobs, including nearly 5,000 in the city.

May 22, 2019

In this Feb. 26, 2019 file photo, Jeep vehicles are parked outside the Jefferson North Assembly Plant in Detroit. Land deals that will allow Fiat Chrysler to build a new assembly plant in Detroit are expected to cost the city and state about $107 million. Mayor Mike Duggan released details Friday of agreements reached for nearly 215 acres on the city's east side that the automaker wants as part of a $1.6 billion investment.

Detroit Reaches Land Deals for Plant

The new assembly plant is expected to add 3,850 jobs.

May 6, 2019

In this Feb. 26, 2019 file photo, Jeep vehicles are parked outside the Jefferson North Assembly Plant in Detroit. When Fiat Chrysler began considering where to build its next assembly plant, the automaker didn't have far to look for land. A short walk from its Jefferson North plant on Detroit's east side is 200 acres of land the company is eyeing as part of its $1.6 billion investment to convert an engine complex into a new facility. Decades of residential flight, disinvestment and abandonment have left the Motor City with stretches of available real estate which are appealing to some developers.

Detroit's Vacant Land Becoming Asset

Decades of disinvestment and abandonment have left the Motor City with something many others just don't have: stretches of available real estate.

April 29, 2019

In a Dec. 7, 2009 file photo, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm drives a pre-production Chevrolet Volt at the Hamtramck Assembly plant in Hamtramck, Mich. GMs' planned shutdown of its Detroit-Hamtramck plant would leave only one auto assembly factory in the city known for 'putting America on wheels,' but the closure and job losses are not expected to stall-out Detroit's remarkable comeback following its 2014 bankruptcy exit. GM wants to close four facilities in the United States and one in Canada.

Detroit's Rebound Won't Stall

A more tech-driven and medical industry economy is moving Detroit further from a reliance on manufacturing.

December 10, 2018