Today, we celebrate Manufacturing Day 2020! Manufacturing Day is the industry’s largest annual opportunity to celebrate modern manufacturing and inspire the next generation of talent to pursue a career in the sector. Companies across the globe open their doors (even if it is virtually this year) to our youth, parents, teachers and communities to experience our world’s most iconic industry
The entire world has been tested by the COVID-19 pandemic, with businesses containing operations in China being some of the first to respond under the international spotlight. Recently, Billion Dollar Roundtable (BDR) co-hosted a webinar with leaders from Cummins China to address how the company, as well as other businesses, can move beyond the uncertainty and begin the process of lo
Cummins plant in Darlington, UK has sustained engine and aftertreatment production through the challenging COVID-19 situation, keeping customers working. One recent example is with strategic partner CLAAS, a leading manufacturer of agricultural equipment in Germany. CLAAS is deemed to be a critical supplier by their government, given the importance of their products in supporting t
In times of hardship and adversity, we often seek guidance from personal experience or past occurrences: What did we do the last time this happened? But how do you respond when there is no previous experience to lean on? Times like these haven’t dawned on us before, certainly in our lifetimes, but also in our company’s history. At the Fridley, Minnesota manufacturing plant, our leadership
Chairman and CEO Tom Linebarger said the company’s new PLANET 2050 strategy includes science-based goals for products and facilities in 2030 aligned to the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Science-based goals are designed to limit global temperature rise to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius by the middle of the century. PLANET 2050’s longer term aspira
Cummins will more than double the number of collaborative robots it is using by the end of 2019, further digitizing its manufacturing operations for a future some describe as the fourth industrial revolution – or Industry 4.0. At least 30 cobots will share workspace with employees at 15 different sites across the globe by the end of the year. Collaborative robots, also known as “cobots,”
Cummins Inc. (NYSE:CMI) has produced its 3-millionth diesel engine for Ram Trucks at its Columbus Mid-Range Engine Plant (CMEP) in Indiana today, highlighting the latest milestone in a partnership that spans more than three decades. "The relationship that Ram Truck has with Cummins is one of the industry’s most enduring, and continues to raise the bar for power and durability," said
Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CMI) is adding to its additive manufacturing capabilities by investing in a new, high-precision 3D metal printing technology called binder jet. This investment is just the next step in Cummins’ plan to revolutionize its manufacturing processes and accelerate the company’s trajectory toward scaled production in additive technologies. Binder jetting is a technology where a pri
It was just enough time, however, for Crandall and the BBC Pump and Equipment Co. Inc. of Indianapolis, Indiana, to take home top-honors at the first Cummins U.S. Innovation Gateway in Columbus, Indiana, earlier this week. “I’ve never been a part of something quite like this,” said Crandall, Commercial/Industrial Sales Engineer at BBC. “I’ve worked with a lot of companies, but not many are tryi
The part was a low-volume bracket for a customer in Cummins’ New and ReCon Parts division and did not have a current supplier. The company is focusing first on printing low-volume parts as it studies how best to use 3D technology in higher volume manufacturing. “With this technology you can really unshackle the designer to do things you just can’t do using traditional forms of manufacturing,” s
The company, for example, expanded its use of the latest technology to capture energy from engine test cells for use at its plants. Cummins is steadily adding high-efficiency LED lighting at its manufacturing facilities, also enhancing safety. And the company recently installed solar panels at its plant in Juarez, Mexico, joining plants in Jamestown, New York; Beijing, China; and eight other Cummi
Cummins’ power generation manufacturing plants in Phaltan, India, and Wuhan, China are two such examples where supply chain improvements have been met with great results. Cummins recently partnered with its distributor in Oman, Universal Engineering Services LLC, to host a seminar for nearly 70 consultants, end-users and contractors on this topic. Attendees learned more about Cummins prod