ALERTA de prioridad sobre Bombardier y Querétaro: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904888304576474790640593806.html
Aquí tienen algunos artículos recogidos de la prensa durante la semana pasada. Había noticias sobre acuerdos entre CONACYT y su contrapartes en Asia así como discusiones de la nano tecnología y aeronáuctica en la región latina-américana. El archivo adjunto tiene extractos de seis articulos sobre:
- una nueva aplicación bio-medica de la nano-tecnología;
- los gastos ocultos de los medios de las comunicaciones sociales;
- la gestión sostenible de la cadena de suministro;
- un nuevo recurso digital para investigar los bio-combustibles;
- las escuelas Montessori como una fundación intelectual para una nueva generación de innovadores; y,
- la planeación estratégica y digitalizada de R.H.
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Espero que cada uno de ustedes tenga un buen fin-de-semana.
CONACYT y QUERÉTARO
CONACYT establece enlaces con Japón y Singapur
http://www.vanguardia.com.mx/firmaelconacytconveniodecolaboracionconcontrapartedesingapur-1037886.html
http://spanish.peopledaily.com.cn/31617/7448168.html
Un nuevo fondo para desarrollar la tecnología en EDOMEX; CONACYT involucrado
http://www.eluniversaledomex.mx/home/nota19687.html
AERONÁUTICA
Querétaro y aeronáutica: perfectos juntos
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904888304576474790640593806.html
QRO será un de cuatro ciudades con un subsede de la agencia espacial
http://eleconomista.com.mx/estados/2011/07/26/se-perfilan-subsedes-agencia-espacial
El primer vuelo con bio-combustibles en México
http://www.energias-renovables.com/energias/renovables/index/pag/biocarburantes/colleft/colright/biocarburantes/tip/articulo/pagid/16489/botid/103/
Aerolíneas Americanas tiene la más gran orden de jets en la historia de aviación comercial
http://www.que.es/ultimas-noticias/economia/201107210446-anuncia-mayor-pedido-aviones-historia-abc.html
América Latina se vuelve como un mercado aeronáutico internacional
http://www.cronista.com/transportycargo/America-latina-crece-enel-mercado-aereo-internacional-20110720-0007.html
INNOVACIÓN y TECNOLOGÍA
QRO se rezaga Jalisco, D.F. y Nueve León por inversiones extranjeras
http://eleconomista.com.mx/estados/2011/07/26/queretaro-septimo-lugar-inversion-extranjera
PAÍS VASCO: la integración de los R.H. estratégicos para desarrollar el talento y colaboración en varias ciencias
http://www.diariovasco.com/v/20110729/opinion/respaldo-necesario-20110729.html
Colaboración entre la Universidad de S.L.P. con un contraparte en China
http://www.pulsoslp.com.mx/Noticias.aspx?Nota=31288
El buen futuro de nano-tecnología
http://www.oem.com.mx/eloccidental/notas/n2161146.htm
Agua: cuándo pensar ´pequeña´ es pensar ´grande’ por medio de redes
http://www.cronica.com.mx/nota.php?id_nota=593870
http://rotativo.com.mx/queretaro/formaran-red-de-investigacion-para-manejo-de-agua-en-queretaro/65732/html/
QUERÉTARO
Safran (de Francia) va a crecer sus operaciones en QRO por 15%
http://eleconomista.com.mx/estados/2011/07/28/safran-confirma-su-quinta-planta-queretaro
QRO trata de crecer económicamente 2-3x más rápido que el crecimiento de la población
http://eleconomista.com.mx/estados/2011/07/27/queretaro-va-mayor-crecimiento
Iluminación por sensores desarrolladas por U.A.Q. et al.
http://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/index.php/sociedad/corresponsales/35518-crean-en-la-uaq-sistema-de-iluminacion-basado-en-sensores
Las tecnologías lideradas de QRO
http://www.oem.com.mx/diariodequeretaro/notas/n2159036.htm
Gracias y saludos,
Ned
Edward McDonnell III
Voluntario de Cuerpo de Paz
Administración
442-373-7458
AERONÁUTICA
Querétaro + Bombardier = 85 (o, el Lear-Jet en México)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904233404576458561238682634.html?mod=dist_smartbrief
350 aviones de Bombardier examinados rápida para los elementos de ala
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903591104576468300438493000.html?mod=dist_smartbrief
Embraer va a aplicar la tecnología de Airbus A320 hacia aviones militares
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=7193095&c=AIR&s=EUR
Embraer y Boeing: la canción y el baile continúan
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2011/07/26/359963/boeing-and-embraer-to-fund-sugarcane-biofuel-study.html
Boeing va a adaptarse al reto impuesto por el A320neo
http://www.kansas.com/2011/07/28/1951223/boeing-looks-into-where-to-build.html#0_undefined,0_
Pratt & Whitney y G.E. están creciendo para seguir la ampliación de la industria aeronáutica
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-27/ge-pratt-add-jet-engine-jobs-to-tap-airline-fuel-price-angst.html
Innovación tan abierta como el espacio
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1107/26mpcveurope/
http://www.space.com/12445-nasa-international-space-station-partner-future-options.html
INNOVACIÓN y TECNOLOGÍA
Robótica se aplica a la cirugía de espalda
http://www.mlive.com/health/index.ssf/2011/07/robotic_arm_aids_in_spinal_sur.html
¿Podría Google+ reemplazar a Facebook y a Twitter? O, ¿Está Google brindando la nube hacia la tierra?
http://memeburn.com/2011/07/google-is-the-golden-ticket-to-the-chocolate-factory-of-social-media/
Cadena verde de valor-y-suministros de DHL
http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/07/29/dhl-launches-carbon-dashboard-emissions-tracker/
Nuevo material bio-médico para la cirugía de cara
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/38150/?mod=chfeatured
JULY 29, 2011
The New Learjet...Now Mexican Made
Low Labor Costs Attract Bombardier, Which Employs 1,600; Fuselages Where Cacti Once Stood
G.E. and Bombardier are making big investments in Mexico, using locally-trained workers to help build their newest jets. It's an example of how the country is turning to specialized labor to compete with China. WSJ's Nicholas Casey reports.
QUERÉTARO, Mexico—Here at a plant in Mexico's central highlands, technicians from Bombardier Inc. are putting together a first in this country: A jet that was 85% manufactured south of the border.
The world's third-largest airplane manufacturer is dipping a toe into Mexico, betting that a combination of local engineers, reduced labor costs and proximity to markets in the north and south are the right mix for the Learjet 85, Bombardier's newest corporate jet, due out in 2013.
Five years ago, the building's site in Querétaro was dry cactus fields. Now it is a booming assembly line of half-built fuselages and a staff of 1,600.
It is the latest project of Mexico's budding aerospace industry, a sector that has averaged 20% growth the past five years while attracting the likes of engine-maker General Electric Co., Textron Inc.'s Cessna Aircraft Co. and an array of suppliers tapped by giants Boeing Co. and Airbus, a unit of European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co.
While it still has a way to go to compete with industry heavyweights in the U.S. and Europe, Mexico attracted $1.15 billion in foreign investment for aerospace in 2010, the highest of any country for the second consecutive year, according to the Mexican government. Mexico now exports about $3.5 billion worth of aerospace equipment per year, according to the Mexican Aerospace Industry Association, putting the country at No. 12 in the global tables. The stakes are high for Mexico, which is betting that higher-end industries like aeronautics will be a key part of its future. Since the 1990s, Mexico has thrived on low-end manufacturing with its so-called maquiladoras—border factories for basic assembly—but in the last decade it has ceded part of that terrain to Chinese plants, which are often cheaper.
"Mexico has an opportunity in these niches: value-added products, sophisticated products," says Manuel Sandoval of ProMexico, the government agency charged with promoting foreign investment.
Mexico is test-driving this idea here in Querétaro, a colonial-era city now home to about 1.1 million people and situated a couple hours' drive from the Mexican capital. Querétaro is wealthier than most Mexican cities and educational standards are higher, particularly for engineers.
The main draw is price. Executives say its cost of labor offers savings of 25% to 30% over the U.S. and at least 30% over Japan. Proximity to North American companies means shipments can arrive in days, not weeks, and executives can coordinate plans during working hours. Carlos Bello, head of the aerospace industry group, says the idea is to begin with parts and basic manufacturing before expanding into more advanced areas like assembly and design.
Montreal-based Bombardier, the first major company to arrive in Querétaro in 2006, opened shop hoping that a big-name company's presence in Mexico would attract others in the supply chain, says Réal Gervais, the general director of the Mexican plant. Things went according to plan, he says, and now Bombardier contracts with a small network of regional suppliers, a few of which are stationed directly on its campus, built alongside the city's airport. This fall, it plans to open another hangar-sized facility as it expands its production of fuselages and electrical harnesses for big-sellers like its Challenger business aircraft.
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Technicians at a Bombardier plant in Queretaro, Mexico assemble electric harnesses for an upcoming aircraft.
Mexico's advantage has its limits. Executives and analysts say that many raw materials like high-quality aluminum can be hard to come by here, along with specialized industrial machinery that is still made in China and must be imported at high cost. Another problem is Mexico's escalating violence related to organized crime groups, whose battles rage just north of Querétaro, something Mr. Gervais says he is "watching very closely."
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Moreover, giants like Boeing and Airbus still haven't opened factories here, in part because of commitments to unions to keep high level-jobs near headquarters. "If it's incremental hires, it's easier to do that in Mexico," says David Strauss, an industry analyst with UBS. Moving large quantities of high-level engineering jobs would be more difficult in the short term, he said.
Still, some aerospace companies are using Mexico as a base for research and design. GE, the No. 1 producer of jet engines, now has its largest research and design center outside of the U.S. and Canada in Querétaro, where some 1,300 engineers work on projects like the GEnx turbine used on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner and the Airbus A380.
"I like to think that every two seconds, a Mexican engineer takes off in the sky," says the center's director, Vladimoro de la Mora, estimating how often a GE engine with parts designed from his labs sets off from a runway. GE is planning future investments in Mexico. In 2015 it plans to open a new $30 million facility it opened early this year at a cost of $20 million. The new wing will house G.E.'s aviation program with roughly 1,000 staff.
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