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Honda North America will unveil a new central Ohio manufacturing site for its Acura NSX on Tuesday.   The Marysville-based automaker plans to make an announcement about eight miles west of its headquarters.   Acura said the new NSX will be powered by a mid-mounted, direct-injected V-6 engine paired with its sports hybrid, super handling all-wheel drive system.

Stephen Grossbart of Catholic Heath Partners has been named one of the “50 Experts Leading the Field of Patient Safety” by Becker’s Hospital Review.   The list recognizes administrators, researchers and others who are leading efforts to reduce harm and ensure safety.   Grossbart serves as senior vice president and chief quality officer of the hospital system’s Center for Patient Safety and Clinical Transformation.   Beckers noted Grossbart’s work with the Washington, D.C.-b

U.S. manufacturing is resurging. High transportation costs, favorable currency exchange rates, and the benefits of suppliers’ being closer to their customers favor the “reshoring” of manufacturing to the U.S. as well as investment and purchasing in the U.S. by overseas manufacturers.   The U.S. automotive industry is poised to return to levels of production last seen in the early 2000s. Major U.S.

Every decade comes with its new technology and challenges. And in today’s hyper-competitive global manufacturing market, if you’re not moving ahead, you’re falling behind.

Are you a dreamer, or a doer? The MTConnect Challenge has something for both. The ultimate goal of the challenge is to engage and stimulate development of a broader base of advanced manufacturing intelligence applications that utilize the MTConnect standard.

Three companies in the Dayton region made the list of top performing suppliers for Honda North America, which spent $9.2 billion with Ohio suppliers to produce autos last year.   F&P Manufacturing Inc. in Troy (excellence in delivery), Industry Products Co.

A Miami County manufacturing company has now settled on the city of Dayton for its expansion and consolidation project that will bring 250 new jobs to the city of Dayton.    Tipp City-based Process Equipment Co. — which currently has three sites in Tipp City and one in Huber Heights — announced Monday it will be purchasing a 425,000-square-foot manufacturing facility on 30 acres located at 2333 McCall St. in Westview Industrial Park.

The word improvement in an operation means different things to differ­ent people. Some define it as lower operating cost or reduced inventory while others describe it in terms of increased efficiency or better quality. The process of improvement in an organization often involves management setting one of these goals, employees making changes in their areas to achieve it, then management setting a new goal.   If everything goes right, the best this cycle will yield is a climb up the staircase of continuous improvement year after year.

It looks great in the R&D lab. The innovative new product sits impressively in front of the production and marketing teams – and, like most good inventions, it has a clear consumer focus, can potentially transform the market, and can be built rapidly at a low cost.   So what do you do now? Small test runs and a few prototypes? No problem. Volume production?

USA Today reports that many hospitals have not adopted technologies that would help elminate the risk of leaving sponges in patients during surgery. Meanwhile, the Associated Press offers a list to help patients avoid problems in the hospital.   USA Today: What Surgeons Leave Behind Costs Some Patients Thousands of patients a year leave the nation's operating rooms with surgical items in their bodies.

A Dayton-area hospital — Kettering Medical Center — made a list of the top 100 hospitals in the United States.   The list was released Monday by Truven Health Analytics, an Ann Arbor, Mich., company that was formerly the health care business of Thomson Reuters.   Kettering Medical Center made the list in the Teaching Hospitals category.   The Truven Health 100 Top Hospitals study uses 10 criteria, including mortality, patient safety, patient satisfaction and medical complications.

Milacron LLC has agreed to acquire Toronto, Ontario-based Mold-Masters Limited, a global manufacturer of plastics injection molding technology.   Backed by private equity investor CCMP Capital Advisors LLC, Cincinnati-based Milacron will acquire all of the shares of Mold-Masters in a transaction with an enterprise value, including debt, of $975 million, the companies stated in a Feb. 12 news release.   The seller is United Kingdom private equity firm 3i Group PLC, which initiated an auction process for Mold-Masters last year.

Procter & Gamble Co. launched a website to further advance its open innovation as part of its Connect+Develop program, the Cincinnati Business Courier reports.   The website, pgconnectdevelop.com, allows innovators to access a full description of every need for the Cincinnati-based consumer products company, including scale and success criteria.   P&G (NYSE:PG) launched its Connect+Develop program more than 10 years ago and has developed more than 2,000 global partnerships. - 

A new set of hospital rankings is out, examining 16 elements related to patient experience and clinical effectiveness at Greater Cincinnati institutions.   The YourHealthMatters.org ratings, produced by the nonprofit Health Collaborative, include 23 hospitals.   “Our customers told us that they want more information about health care quality from a trusted resource, particularly now that the prevalence of high-deductible health plans means patients pay more out of pocket when they need care,” Judy Hirsh, director of con