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Visteon CEO steers toward autonomous vehicles
Dustin Walsh - The supplier stumbled through board turmoil, bankruptcy, multiple CEOs and, over time, a drastic paring-down of its businesses.
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Giving lightweight a LIFT
Chad Livengood - Volkswagen will bring lightweighting R&D from German to Detroit as Lightweight Innovations For Tomorrow gains traction.Listen: Chad Livengood talks with Larry Brown, executive...
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Automation Alley creates roadmap for manufacturing technologies
Dustin Walsh - The Troy-based business association plans to release a study on Industry 4.0, the idea that we are in a fourth industrial revolution in which the internet and automation transforms...
View ArticleMaterialise makes software that powers 3-D printing
Jay Greene - One day, says Bryan Crutchfield, general manager of Materialise, medical 3-D printing will be able to create replacement functioning organs like skin or heart valves for transplantation.
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Medical 3-D printing is 'future of surgery'
Jay Greene - It sounds like something out of "Westworld," the HBO sci-fi series where humanoid robots are 3-D-printed. But Southeast Michigan hospitals are working on the cutting edge of medical...
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Utilities, automakers team up on plug-in vehicles
Jay Greene - Consumers Energy Co. is working with General Motors to educate the public, encourage electric vehicle sales, expand PEV charging stations and work on a "customer journey map." DTE Energy...
View Article5 habits of highly innovative companies
Shonda Shorters - A business' ability to bring change gives leaders a strategic advantage and the catalyst that positions it for unparalleled growth.
View ArticleTechTown, Kyyba Innovations to host fintech pitch competition with $50,000...
Tyler Clifford - The Farmington Hills-based software development company looks to invest in an early-stage business that can create innovative products for the banking industry.
View Article'Shark Tank'-style health care innovators competition set at Wayne State
Jay Greene - Competitors will receive mentoring and the winning ideas will be developed over the year.
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NextEnergy CEO Jean Redfield to step down
Dustin Walsh - The Detroit-based nonprofit technology accelerator named Jim Saber to step in as leader while Angella Durkin is promoted to a new COO role.
View ArticleWith proper nurturing, innovation can take you to new levels quickly
Michael Melfi - Acceptance of change usually requires some type of training wheels to successfully test the new product or service.
View ArticleDon't worry about electric vehicles
Letter writer: "I'll be amazed if plug-in sales represent 3 percent of the U.S. new car market by 2023. Mr. Crain and gas station owners have nothing to fear."
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All aboard the future. Maybe.
Kirk Pinho - Emails show talks on studying whether such a route is feasible. That's a huge question, along with cost, for technology that hasn't been proven.
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The tech you'll use in your next car
Dustin Walsh - From idiot-proofing your trailer hitch to eliminating all of that glare on the road, your next car (or at least the one after that) will be easier to drive.
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Off the wall: Augmented reality is coming soon to a mural near you
Ashley Catherine WoodsSpecial to Crain's Detroit Business - Two entrepreneurial brothers are installing a "moving mural" in Greektown this spring.
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Ideal Group builds by trying new things
Chad Livengood - Frank Venegas' steel fabrication business has grown into a $350 million-a-year mutlifaceted enterprise with construction and protective barrier customers that include GM, Costco,...
View ArticleChad Livengood on 910AM: 'Get out the damn credit card' to fix roads | Ideal...
Chad Livengood - Crain's Detroit Business Senior Reporter Chad Livengood talks with Nolan Finley on 910AM Superstation about Crain's top stories. Listen to the interview and read the stories here.
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Wayne State University to buy NextEnergy Center in Midtown
Dustin Walsh - The Detroit school will use proceeds from the sale of its Oakland Center in Farmington Hills to acquire the building.
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Beaumont, Henry Ford rethink the ICU
Jay Greene - Over the past five years, hospitals have been installing EMR systems to more effectively track inpatient care and link that data with office-based physicians and other providers to capture...
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