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Manufacturers Have to Look at Machine Vision in New Ways in 2022

Many industrial technology systems are not compatible with the production, warehousing and logistics strategies now needed to meet demand.

In this Aug. 9, 2021, file photo, fake pill bottles with messages about OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma are displayed during a protest outside the courthouse where the bankruptcy of the company is taking place in White Plains, N.Y. A federal judge should reject a sweeping settlement to thousands of lawsuits against OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, a group of states said at a hearing Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021 arguing that the protections it extends to members of the Sackler family who own the firm are improper.

Family Behind OxyContin Accused of Abusing Bankruptcy Process

States have credible claims that family members took more than $10 billion from the company then steered it toward bankruptcy.

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Deadly Ammunition Plant Explosion; Build-Your-Own eVTOL; Factories Linked to Ponzi Scheme | Today in Manufacturing Ep. 39

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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg speaks during a news conference to discuss the supply chain issues at the Port of Long Beach in Long Beach, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022.

Army Corps of Engineers Gets $14B to Help Ease Supply Chains

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Expanding Opportunities for Minority and Women-Owned Businesses

Expanding Opportunities for Minority and Women-Owned Businesses

The Export-Import Bank of the United States offers a number of tools to assist all U.S. manufacturers, and works to ensure that these opportunities are readily available to businesses owned by minorities and women. Watch video to learn more.

The Dixie Meadows is pictured in June 2017 in Churchill County, Nev. In a lawsuit filed Dec. 15, 2021, conservationists and tribal leaders are suing the U.S. government to try to block construction of two geothermal plants there that they say will destroy a sacred hot springs and push the toad to the brink of extinction.

Lawsuit Seeks to Block 2 Geothermal Power Plants in Nevada

Conservationists and tribal leaders say the plants will destroy a sacred hot springs and could push a rare toad to the brink of extinction.

4 Injured in Large Texas Refinery Fire

The fire started at about 1 a.m.

Workers clear debris from the eastbound lanes of Interstate 70 on April 26, 2019, in Lakewood, Colo., following a deadly pileup involving a semi-truck hauling lumber. A truck driver who was convicted of causing the fiery pileup that killed four people and injured six others on Interstate 70 west of Denver was sentenced Monday, Dec. 13, 2021, to 110 years in prison. Rogel Aguilera-Mederos was convicted in October of vehicular homicide and other charges stemming from the April 2019 crash.

Leniency Urged for Trucker Sentenced to 110 Years

Support has swelled after a driver was convicted over an accident where his brakes failed.

Vince Patton, a new Tesla owner, demonstrates on Dec. 8, 2021, on a closed course in Portland, Ore., how he can play video games on the vehicle's console while driving. The U.S. has opened a formal investigation into a report that Tesla vehicles allow people to play video games on a center touch screen while they are driving.

U.S. Probes Potential of Drivers Playing Video Games in Teslas

The move follows a complaint about Teslas equipped with "gameplay functionality."

'Pill Mann,' made by Frank Huntley of Worcester, Mass., from his opioid prescription pill bottles, is displayed during a protest outside the Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., Dec. 3, 2021.

Judge Rejects Sweeping Opioid Settlement

A provision of the settlement would have protected members of the Sackler family from facing litigation of their own.

Workers in protective suits clean the contaminated beach in Corona Del Mar after an oil spill off the Southern California coast, on Oct. 7, 2021. A Los Angeles federal grand jury on Wednesday, Dec. 15 charged a Houston-based oil company and two subsidiaries for the oil spill off the California coast in October.

Company Indicted for Not Stopping Oil Leak After Many Alarms

U.S. prosecutors said the company and its subsidiaries were negligent six ways.

A merchant examines a jade stone displayed at the Gems Emporium in Naypyitaw, Myanmar on Nov. 13, 2018. Human rights activists are lobbying major jewelers to stop buying gems sourced in Myanmar as a way to exert pressure on Myanmar’s military leaders by limiting profits from the country’s lucrative mining industry.

Gems Industry Targeted in Push for Sanctions

“There is no such thing as an ethically sourced Burmese ruby.”

Gasoline prices are displayed at a station in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. Prices for U.S. consumers jumped 6.8% in November compared with a year earlier as surging costs for food, energy, housing and other items left Americans enduring their highest annual inflation rate since 1982.

U.S. Consumer Inflation up Most Since 1982

Fueling the inflation has been a mix of factors resulting from the swift rebound from the pandemic recession.

Italy Fines Amazon $1.3B, Alleging Harm to Outside Sellers

Amazon said it “strongly disagreed” with the regulator's decision and would appeal.

This photo shows a tunnel inside the Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Facility in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on Jan. 26, 2018. The state of Hawaii says a laboratory has detected petroleum product in a water sample from an elementary school near Pearl Harbor. The news comes amid heightened concerns that fuel from the massive Navy storage facility may contaminate Oahu's water supply.

Navy Halts Use of Fuel Storage Complex Above Hawaii Aquifer

Fuel from the tanks is used to power many U.S. military ships and planes that patrol the Pacific Ocean.

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Business Economists Foresee Persistent Inflation

Eighty-seven percent of the panelists have identified supply chain bottlenecks as a major factor in the acceleration of prices.