Advanced Manufacturing tag – FOCUS

Five Smart Steps in Applying Artificial Intelligence (AI)

By |June 7, 2018|Advanced Manufacturing, Articles, Technology Services|

“Artificial intelligence is the future… From health care to transportation to national security, AI has the potential to improve lives. But it comes with fears about economic disruption and a brewing ‘AI arms race.’ Like any transformational change, it’s complicated. Perhaps the biggest AI myth is that we can be confident about its future effects,” according to the Washington Post.

Made in America: The 33 Cent Chinese Arkansas T-Shirt

By |October 3, 2017|Advanced Manufacturing, Articles, Blogs|

Recently my colleague Marco Chan shared an extraordinary story that puts a new slant on the public discussion about robotics, China, outsourcing and the future of jobs.  According to this Bloomberg Business Week story,  a Chinese manufacturer, Tianyuan Garments Co., is investing $20 million to open a plant in Little Rock that will utilize robots developed by a Georgia company, Software Automation, to manufacture T-Shirts at a cost of 33 cents per shirt.  Each SEWBOT™ workline is capable of spitting out a T-Shirt every 26 seconds.  Human workers don’t stand a chance against such competition, no matter how low a wage rate they are willing to accept.

The Work World Is Changing And Society Needs To Change As Well

By |May 8, 2017|Advanced Manufacturing, Articles|

We live in a time of great paradox. Technologies such as low cost renewable energy and automated production tools promise a world of abundance in which global poverty is abolished and human drudgery is eliminated. Yet even a casual glance at the daily news confronts us with a sense of dread that, far from Utopia, we are instead headed toward a dystopian future in which the benefits of technological advance will be reserved for a privileged few.

FOCUS Investment Banking Represents Strength Capital Partners, LLC in its Acquisition of Universal Aerospace Co., Inc.

By |January 24, 2017|Advanced Manufacturing, Deals, Government and Defense, Mergers & Acquisitions News, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Supply Chain|

Washington, DC (January 23, 2017) – FOCUS Investment Banking (“FOCUS”), a national middle market investment banking firm providing merger, acquisition, divestiture and corporate finance services announced today that Strength Capital Partners, LLC (“Strength”) has acquired Universal Aerospace Co., Inc. (“Universal”).  FOCUS initiated the transaction and represented Strength in the negotiations.

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