SME - Energy

About SME

Manufacturing Knowledge Resource Internal Pages

SME is unleashing its breadth and depth of manufacturing content into a powerful, user-friendly, 24-7 online resource. Everything you want to know about manufacturing is available when you want it, where you want it.

NOW AVAILABLE! The former Tool & Manufacturing Engineer's Handbook (TMEH) has been digitized and is now available in a new peer-reviewed and validated WIKI environment.

Energy

From traditional earth-sourced fuels to renewables, SME is examining the state of the $188.1 billion energy manufacturing industry, one of its key industry strategies. The trends, technologies and manufacturing processes being implemented in the oil and gas industry as well as geothermal, solar, nuclear and wind will be addressed through this website and the pages of SME's annual industry yearbook, Energy Manufacturing.

Competition Launched for Three New Manufacturing Innovation Institutes

The Department of Defense will lead two of the new institutes, focused on “Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation” and “Lightweight and Modern Metals Manufacturing,” and the Department of Energy will be leading one new institute on “Next Generation Power Electronics Manufacturing.”

DOE Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative: Rust Turns Green?

The initiative has the two-pronged objective of increasing U.S. manufacturing competitiveness.

Ohio Manufacturers Fight To Keep Energy Efficiency Standards

Ohio is one of many states trying to scale back energy efficiency standards set for utility providers — even though these standards have lowered costs and reduced energy consumption by customers.

Can Brazil Maintain Its Rock-Bottom Wind Energy Prices?

Brazil's latest wind energy auction, held last December, produced some of the lowest prices for wind power generation outside of China.

Cheap Energy Luring Manufacturing Back to the United States

Corporate chieftains see reason to be optimistic that the shale boom can reindustrialize the U.S. economy and drive not only United States but also global growth.