Author: Senior Editor Patrick Waurzyniak
Date: 5/2/2013
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software still leads the pack in the race to the cloud. To stay competitive, manufacturers need to move quickly to the latest cloud-based SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) ERP technology to get the best advantage of moving to the new technology, said Patrick Fetterman, vice president of marketing, Plex Systems Inc. (Troy, MI), developer of the manufacturing-centric SaaS ERP system Plex Online.“
Full Article Author: Edited by Editor in Chief Sarah A. Webster
Date: 5/1/2013
The Boeing Co. (Chicago, IL) continues to move quickly to solve issues surrounding the lithium-ion batteries installed in its 787 Dreamliner, which has been grounded since mid-January, and the model could be back in the air by June. On Jan. 16, the FAA issued an emergency directive that grounded all Boeing 787s in the US following two incidents, including one fire, involving lithium-ion batteries.
Full Article Author: Edited by Senior Editor Patrick Waurzyniak
Date: 5/1/2013
Bill Gibbs is the founder and president of Gibbs and Associates (Moorpark, CA), developer of GibbsCAM software. He is also president of Cimatron North America (Novi, MI) and vice chairman of Cimatron Ltd. (Givat Shmuel, Israel). Manufacturing Engineering: What are some key technical trends affect
Full Article Author: Materialise Press Release
Date: 4/24/2013
Leuven, Belgium – Materialise is proud to announce the winners of the Mimics Innovation Awards. Through the years, the Materialise’s Mimics Innovation Suite has become an industry standard for processing and editing anatomical data from CT and MRI scans.
Full Article Author: Senior Editor Michael Anderson
Date: 4/24/2013
The two top prizes in SME’s 2013 Manufacturing Challenge collegiate competition went to separate teams from California State University, Northridge. The Grand Prize was awarded to the school’s Team Two for a novel Assisted Gripping Rig device designed to augment the grip of a human user.
Full Article Author: PRESS RELEASE
Date: 4/12/2013
The National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining and the MTConnect Institute announced the start of the first phase of the MTConnect Challenge: Creating Manufacturing Intelligence, a U.S. Department of Defense - Defense-Wide Manufacturing Science and Technology (DMS&T) ManTech sponsored competition that seeks to engage and stimulate development of advanced manufacturing intelligence applications that utilize the MTConnect standard.
Full Article Author: Edited by Editor in Chief Sarah A. Webster
Date: 4/1/2013
The role women might play in helping to resolve manufacturing’s workforce shortage continues to gain more prominence.On Feb. 5, Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute released a report, “Untapped Resource,” that outlined how women could play a key role in solving the workforce shortage. The Society of Manufacturing Engineers and the University of Phoenix also sponsored the report.
Full Article Author: Edited by Senior Editor Patrick Waurzyniak
Date: 4/1/2013
Dusty Alexander is president and CEO, and Mike Melzer is vice president, operations, for Global Shop Solutions (The Woodslands, TX), a developer of ERP software solutiosn for manufacturers.
Full Article Author: Senior Editor James Sawyer
Date: 3/22/2013
Most of the messages delivered during the Automotive Manufacturing Summit (AMS) at Detroit’s Ford Field were familiar and welcome. A few, though, were cautionary and perhaps a bit disturbing to those who have been caught up in the resurgence of the North American auto industry in general and the Detroit 3 in particular.
Full Article Author: Senior Editor Patrick Waurzyniak
Date: 3/22/2013
Showcasing its automotive engineering expertise, Siemens Industry Inc. (Norcross, GA) outlined some of its latest new PLCs, automation software, advanced networking, and digital manufacturing solutions during its Manufacturing in America Symposium’s Automotive Summit event held yesterday at Ford Field in Detroit.
Full Article Author: DWFritz Automation
Date: 3/20/2013
DWFritz Automation Inc. has established a new division, DWF Products, to serve advanced manufacturing businesses with standardized assembly and automation equipment.
The first product now available from the division is the M1500 Micro Fastener System, which automatically inserts PennEngineering’s microPEM self-clinching TackPin fasteners as an alternative to screws or spot welds.
Full Article Author: Spirit AeroSystems Inc.
Date: 3/19/2013
Spirit AeroSystems Inc. (Wichita, KS) announced at AeroDef 2013 that it will use FlexNet, a next-generation manufacturing execution system, to help the company better manage resources, processes and materials across production facilities on three continents.
Full Article Author: Press Release from Fives
Date: 3/8/2013
Paris-based Fives is expanding its activity in the North American machine tool market by entering into a definitive agreement to acquire MAG Americas, a global supplier of high-performance capital equipment for applications in virtually every major North American industry.
Full Article Author: Lauralyn McDaniel
Date: 3/1/2013
Advancement in the way things are made is critical to the success of manufacturing. SME’s Innovation Watch Committee showcases new and emerging technologies that are making a difference in manufacturing through the annual list of Innovations That Could Change the Way You Manufacture. These are innovations that can be used today or within a few months and have already shown some successful implementation.
Full Article Author: Edited by Editor-in-Chief Sarah A. Webster
Date: 3/1/2013
On Feb. 7, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said it concluded “after an exhaustive examination” that a battery fire in a Boeing (Chicago) 787 Dreamliner “pointed to an initiating event in a single cell.” That Jan. 7 fire, along with another incident involving a 787 battery on Jan. 16, contributed to regulators’ decision to ground the plane model and begin an investigation.
Full Article Author: Edited by Senior Editor Patrick Waurzyniak
Date: 3/1/2013
Colin Jones is PowerMILL software development manager, Delcam plc (Birmingham, UK), a developer of CAD/CAM and inspection software.
Full Article Author: Senior Editor Patrick Waurzyniak
Date: 2/14/2013
Cutting tool developer Komet of America Inc. (Schaumburg, IL) has named CountyLine Tool (East Peoria, IL) as its first North American Komet Service licensed partner, providing customers with tool refurbishment services as well as Komet brand standard and made-to-order solid carbide tools.
Full Article Author: The ExOne Company
Date: 2/7/2013
The ExOne Co., a global provider of 3D printing machines and printed products to industrial companies, has announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 5 million shares of common stock and 300,000 shares of common stock from Rochewell Holdings Inc. at a price of $18 a share.
Full Article Author: Edited by Editor in Chief Sarah A. Webster
Date: 2/1/2013
The renewable energy industry kicked off the New Year with celebration after Congress passed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 in the first days of 2013. The law averted a fiscal cliff of automatic spending cuts and extended the popular tax credits.
Full Article Author: Edited by Senior Editor Patrick Waurzyniak
Date: 2/1/2013
Richard Parenteau is director of applications development and Nakamura-Tome product manager, Methods Machine Tools Inc. (Sudbury, MA).
Full Article Author: James D. Sawyer
Senior Editor
Date: 1/29/2013
Among industrial manufacturers in the US, 48% are optimistic about nation’s economy for the coming 12 months. Only 7%are pessimistic. So say respondents to the Q4 2012 Manufacturing Barometersurvey released January 29 by consulting organization PwC US. The number of respondents with a positive outlook increased by 11 percentage points from the results generated during the survey conducted in the third quarter of 2012. These opinions contrast with sentiment regarding international markets. Optimism regarding the 12-month outlook for these markets remained low at 32%. Uncertainty remained high at 53%.
Full Article Author: Senior Editor Jim Lorincz
Date: 1/25/2013
Daikin America (Orangeburg, New York) has installed the capability to manufacture flame-retarded fluorinated electrolyte for use in lithium-ion battery applications. In August2012, Daikin completed the construction of its state-of-the-art electrolyte manufacturing facility located in its plant complex in Decatur, Alabama.
Full Article Author: Press Release from Hyundai Wia America
Date: 1/9/2013
Hyundai WIA America Corp. (HWA) today announced a Technology Parternership with Michael Waltrip Racing (MWR), a leading NASCAR Team with three full-time Sprint Cup Teams. The Technology Partnership provides MWR with the exclusive use of two state-of-the-art Hyundai WIA vertical machining centers, to machine critical components on their stock cars, in an effort to provide a competitive edge.
Full Article Author: Senior Editor Patrick Waurzyniak
Date: 1/9/2013
The ExOne Co. (North Huntingdon, PA), a developer of 3D printing machines and printed products, on Jan. 9 filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of its common stock. ExOne was founded in 2005 as a spinoff of Extrude Hone Corp. (Irwin, PA), a developer of precision nontraditional machining processes and automated systems that was acquired by cutting tool developer Kennametal (Latrobe, PA) in March 2005.
Full Article Author: Patrick Waurzyniak
Date: 1/8/2013
Hexagon Metrology (Stockholm) today announced it has acquired New River Kinematics (NRK; Williamsburg, VA), developer of the SpatialAnalyzer 3D analysis software for portable metrology applications. No financial details were given, but Hexagon said that NRK had a turnover of $13.3 million US during 2012.
Full Article Author: Senior Editor Patrick Waurzyniak
Date: 1/7/2013
Gibbs and Associates (Moorpark, CA), developer of GibbsCAM software, announced on Dec. 3, 2012, that it has been selected for membership in Okuma America’s (Charlotte, NC) Partners in THINC, a collaborative network of over 40 companies serving the metalcutting industry with specialized software, equipment, and expertise.
Full Article Author: Editor in Chief Sarah A. Webster
Date: 1/3/2013
The renewable energy industry kicked off the New Year with celebration after Congress passed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 in the first days of 2013. The law averted a tumble over a fiscal cliff of automatic spending cuts and also extended the popular tax credits that had been set to expire. The federal renewable electricity production tax credit (PTC) is a per-kilowatt-hour tax credit for electricity generated by qualified energy resources. While wind and ethanol producers are the big winners in the move, the PTC also covers other sources of power generation such as specific types of landfill gas, biomass, hydroelectric, geothermal electric, municipal solid waste and others.
Full Article Author: Edited by Editor-in-Chief Sarah A. Webster
Date: 12/13/2012
The shortage of high-skilled workers will continue driving a shift in manufacturing power toward Asia, unless US policy makers adopt new approaches to boost competitiveness, two separate manufacturing reports suggest.
Full Article Author: Editor-in-Chief Sarah A. Webster
Date: 12/13/2012
It’s difficult to determine what facts are the most disturbing about our nation’s skills gap: The fact that U.S. students recently finished 25th in math and 17th in science. Or that employers – already strained to fill about 600,000 current vacancies -- have a bevy of issues with their current workers, too.
Full Article Author: Senior Editor James D. Sawyer
Date: 12/12/2012
The Pittsburgh region is once again a hotbed of energy production and manufacturing -- thanks to the Marcellus Shale and fracking.
Full Article Author: PRESS RELEASE
Date: 12/6/2012
FANUC Corporation, the world's most diversified manufacturer of CNC systems, robots and machine tools, has again recently been named a top innovator by Forbes and Thomson Reuters in 2012
Full Article Author: Manufacturing Engineering Media Staff
Date: 12/4/2012
Manufacturing the future: The next era of global growth and innovation, a major report from the McKinsey Global Institute, presents a clear view of how manufacturing contributes to the global economy today and how it will probably evolve over the coming decade.
Full Article Author: Manufacturing Engineering Media
Date: 12/4/2012
Over the next five years, manufacturing stalwarts such as the US, Germany and Japan will be challenged to maintain their competitive edge against emerging nations, such as China, India and Brazil, according to the 2013 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index from Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited’s Global Manufacturing Industry Group and the US Council on Competitiveness. Read the rull report here.
Full Article Author: Edited by Senior Editor Patrick Waurzyniak
Date: 12/1/2012
Narayan Laksham is founder and CEO of Ultriva Inc. (Cupertino, CA), a developer of supply-chain manufacturing software solutions.
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Author: Edited by Senior Editor Patrick Waurzyniak
Date: 12/1/2012
While optimistic about their own prospects for revenue growth in the next 12 months, the majority of US industrial manufacturers are leery about the US and global economies, according to the Q3 2012 Manufacturing Barometer, a survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC; New York).
Full Article Author: Editor in Chief Sarah A. Webster
Date: 12/1/2012
North America continues to be the bright spot in global manufacturing. In the US, economic activity in the sector grew in October, for the second consecutive month following a summer slowdown, the nation’s supply executives reported in the latest Manufacturing ISM Report On Business.
Full Article Author: Editor in Chief Sarah A. Webster
Date: 11/20/2012
I am struck by how much the basics still matter. Basics such as: Leaders who (duh!) lead. Competent workforces that can execute in increasingly advanced environments. Lean Plan-Do-Check-Adjust approaches that are not just rooted in management memos but also in a company’s culture—and in reality.
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Editor in Chief
Date: 11/12/2012
Hwacheon on Nov 1 marked its 60th anniversary with the Grand Opening of its Technology Center and an Open House. More than 2000 people attended the 3-day event where the company had on display its range of CNC machine tools from vertical turning centers to drill and tap machines, horizontal lathes to mold and die machining centers.
Full Article Author: Editor in Chief Sarah A. Webster
Date: 11/9/2012
I was quite surprised – astonished really – when a report landed in my in-box this October from the Boston Consulting Group with this headline: “Skills Gap in US Manufacturing is Less Pervasive Than Many Believe.”
Full Article Author: Senior Editor Patrick Waurzyniak
Date: 11/8/2012
Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) continued its aggressive expansion into the industrial software market with the announcement today that it would purchase privately held LMS International NV (Leuven, Belgium), a developer of test and mechatronic simulation software, in a deal valued at approximately 680 million euro.
Full Article Author: Senior Editor Jim Lorincz
Date: 11/8/2012
Ribbon cutting for Mori Seiki’s new 200,000 ft2 manufacturing factory in Davis, CA, was hailed as a victory for the region, state, and US manufacturing. The highly automated factory which includes an additional 20,000 ft2 for offices is located directly adjacent to Mori Seiki’s Digital Technology Laboratory (DTL), which provides design analysis of and virtual modeling and software for the company’s products. -
Full Article Author: Manufacturing Engineering Staff
Date: 11/7/2012
When it was all said and done, registrations reached 100,200 at the Industrial Automation North America and International Manufacturing Trade Show, which ran from Sept. 10–15 at McCormick Place in Chicago. Read about the technical and educational highlights from the show.
Full Article Author: Edited by Sarah A. Webster
Date: 11/1/2012
While the Institute for Supply Management reported that US manufacturing outdid expectations and expanded in September—after a summer slowdown—global manufacturing is contracting and could derail growth here. That’s the conclusion of a bevy of recently released reports on global manufacturing and trade.
Full Article Author: Edited by Senior Editor Patrick Waurzyniak
Date: 11/1/2012
David Bartholomew is product manager, DP Technology Corp. (Camarillo, CA), developer of Esprit CAM software
Full Article Author: Editor in Chief Sarah A. Webster
Date: 10/26/2012
I had the pleasure of visiting the North American headquarters of Sweden-based Seco Tools and its technical center in Troy last week. Seco opened its bright and modern 81,000-square-foot building in suburban Metro Detroit in July of 2008 – right before the US financial markets tanked and the global economy plunged into the Great Recession.
Full Article Author: Editor in Chief Sarah A. Webster
Date: 10/22/2012
GF AgieCharmilles, a leading provider of EDM systems, milling machines and laser texturing solutions, is now collaborating with the Virginia-based Commonwealth Center for Advanced anufacturing (CCAM) to help accelerate the transfer of research innovation from the laboratory to commercial use.
Full Article Author: Edited by Senior Editor Patrick Waurzyniak
Date: 10/1/2012
The Society of Manufacturing Engineers will play an integral role in the new National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII), which was launched by the Obama Administration in August and will serve as a pilot for a much broader national manufacturing initiative.
Full Article Author: Editor in Chief Sarah A. Webster
Date: 9/28/2012
Heller Machine Tools marked its 30th year in the US with an open house at its Troy, MI, plant last week, where it promoted the launch of its MC Series of horizontal machining centers (HMCs) and a new technology for making lightweight auto engines more robust.
Full Article Author: Senior Editor Patrick Waurzyniak
Date: 9/14/2012
Aiming for the job shop market, CNC developer Siemens Industry Inc., Motion Control Business (Elk Grove Village, IL) introduced its new Sinumerik 808D control for entry-level milling and turning machines. With a more affordable price, the new control will target three-axis machine tools, particularly in the Asia market.
Full Article Author: Senior Editor Ellen Kehoe
Date: 9/13/2012
“If anyone thinks manufacturing is stuck in the ‘Laverne and Shirley’ days, they should see the innovation at this show,” exclaimed first-time IMTS visitor Steve Olson, executive director of SelectUSA (www.selectusa.gov), and one of the speakers at a workforce issues session at IMTS Sept. 12.
Full Article Author: Senior Editor Patrick Waurzyniak
Date: 9/13/2012
Aircraft components builder Aerospace Dynamics International (ADI, Valencia, CA) launched a major increase in titanium machining capacity with its order for eight MAG (Hebron, KY) five-spindle, five-axis XTi profilers to support its Airbus A350 and Boeing 787 programs.
Full Article Author: Senior Editor Michael C. Anderson
Date: 9/12/2012
CADCAM solution provider Delcam recognized Lifetime Products Inc. (Clearfield, UT) as its 40,000 worldwide customer at a press conference at IMTS on September 11 2012.
Full Article Author: Senior Editor Patrick Waurzyniak
Date: 9/12/2012
Machine downtime in the factory costs manufacturers dearly with lost production time. With its new mobile fluid recycling system introduced at IMTS, Eriez Hydroflow (Erie, PA), aims to boost manufacturers’ bottom line by reducing unnecessary machine tool downtime and improving machine coolant recovery.
Full Article Author: Senior Editor James Sawyer
Date: 9/11/2012
Hyundai-Wia has donated one of its new model machine tools, the F 400 VM, to Humboldt Park Vocational Education Center. Park of Chicago's Wilbur Wright College, the school is in the northwest section of the city.
Full Article Author: Editor in Chief Sarah A. Webster
Date: 9/10/2012
The manufacturing industry could have a shortage of 10 million workers by 2020 if the nation does not address the crisis in manufacturing education, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) said today during a press conference at the 2012 International Manufacturing Technology Show.
Full Article Author: Editor in Chief Sarah A. Webster
Date: 9/10/2012
Manufacturing education is, indeed, in crisis. When manufacturers have hundreds of thousands available jobs and nobody to fill them, during a period of high unemployment, the crisis is obvious. There’s just not enough people to get the job done.
Full Article Author: Editor in Chief Sarah A. Webster
Date: 9/10/2012
ISCAR on Sunday announced the biggest new product onslaught in its 60-year history – a wide range of innovative and problem-solving products across its lineup that are branded “IQ” as part of a post-recession marketing campaign. For example, ISCAR will begin offering the Dove IQ Turn, Dove IQ Drill, Dove IQ Mill and Dove IQ Grip as part of the “High QLine - Machining Intelligently” product launch.
Full Article Author: Senior Editor Jim Lorincz
Date: 9/10/2012
At Okuma America's exhibit at IMTS 2012, which opened today and will run for six days, six showgoers -- one each day -- will be eligible to win an iPad for participating in a hands-on demonstration of Okuma software and intelligent technologies available through its new OSP-P300 CNC control.
Full Article Author: Edited by Senior Editor Patrick Waurzyniak
Date: 9/1/2012
Ping Fu is CEO of Geomagic (Morrisville, NC), a developer of software for computer-based inspection, reverse engineering, and scanning, which in April added touch-enabled or haptic products through the acquisition of Sensable Technologies Inc. (Wilmington, MA).
Full Article Author: Edited by Senior Editor Patrick Waurzyniak
Date: 9/1/2012
A new study by the National Science Board (NSB) raises a warning flag that recent cuts in American research and development programs in both the private and public sectors have the potential to hamper long-term US competitiveness.
Full Article Author: Manufacturing Engineering Media Staff
Date: 8/16/2012
After a successful launch in 2010, the Society of Manufacturing Engineer’s Medical Manufacturing Innovations event returns to Toronto in 2012. The focus of the event will be on medical and dental manufacturing, including devices such as orthopedics, joint and dental implants, prosthetics, and more.
Full Article Author: Manufacturing Engineering Media Staff
Date: 8/16/2012
The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) will be playing an integral role in the new National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute. The news was announced this morning by the U.S. Department of Commerce and Department of Defense in Youngstown, Ohio.
Full Article Author: Manufacturing Engineering Media Staff
Date: 8/7/2012
Coating professionals are invited to attend Coating 2012 for new products, technical solutions for coating issues, and networking opportunities.
Full Article Author: Manufacturing Engineering Media Staff
Date: 7/26/2012
Wednesday, August 15, at 2 p.m. EDT Manufacturing Engineering Media will host a webinar on improving shop floor productivity. The focus will be on a new direction for manpower efficiency that includes machines, tooling, and automation.
Full Article Author: Manufacturing Engineering Media Staff
Date: 7/24/2012
A distinguished retired SME editor, Robert (Bob) Stauffer, passed away July 7, 2012, at age 87. Stauffer joined the Manufacturing Engineering staff in 1975, in the company of well-known colleagues Dan Dallas and Charlie Wick. He retired as executive editor in February 1990.
Full Article Author: Manufacturing Engineering Media Staff
Date: 7/24/2012
In an era of high unemployment, manufacturing jobs are going unfilled. In addition, service personnel are in need of jobs once they leave the military.
Full Article Date: 7/10/2012
Forbes reports that on July 9 "the Army launched a six-week pilot program, in coordination with the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, to provide military-to-civilian engineering certification for the tens of thousands of servicemen/women who will be exiting the Army over the coming years as the US winds down operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan."
Full Article Author: Manufacturing Engineering Media Staff
Date: 7/10/2012
Barbara Fossum, Past President of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, has been chosen to serve as the interim CEO of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) in charge of the group’s offices in both Park Ridge, IL, and Washington, D.C.
Full Article Author: Edited by Senior Editor Patrick Waurzyniak
Date: 7/1/2012
Steve Prast is founder and managing director of EOS Solutions (Rochester, MI), a provider of 4-D simulation modeling and 3-D visualization solutions.
Full Article Author: Edited by Senior Editor Patrick Waurzyniak
Date: 7/1/2012
With continued rising labor and other manufacturing costs for overseas imports from China and other countries, "near-shoring" increasingly is being viewed as an opportunity to better serve US demand, according to a recent report by AlixPartners LLP (New York), a global business advisory firm.
Full Article Date: 6/28/2012
Sources say that European-based Airbus SAS has plans to build its first full assembly line in the United States in Mobile, AL. According to an anonymous source, who spoke with the Associated Press, Airbus intends to build its A320 jet at the new location.
Full Article Author: Edited by Senior Editor Patrick Waurzyniak
Date: 6/1/2012
Rapid prototyping and manufacturing developers Stratasys Inc. (Minneapolis) and Objet Geometries Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel) have agreed to join forces, creating a potentially dominating force in additive manufacturing.
Full Article Author: Edited by Senior Editor Patrick Waurzyniak
Date: 6/1/2012
Ken Woodbine is president, Wilcox and Associates Inc., developer of metrology software and a unit of Hexagon Metrology Inc. (North Kingstown, RI).
Full Article Author: Editor in Chief Sarah A. Webster
Date: 5/9/2012
Given the diverse nature of manufacturing across so many industries and locales, it’s historically been difficult to get a clear picture of what’s happening in the sector until it’s too late for meaningful policy changes. By the time many fully understood the nature of the nation’s manufacturing job losses these past few decades, the frog was already boiling or boiled -- depending on what product one manufactured. And a few too many shrugged their shoulders as if it was too late to stop an irreversible slide.
Full Article Author: Edited by Senior Editor Patrick Waurzyniak
Date: 5/1/2012
Edward Sinkora is a senior product manager, United Grinding Technologies Inc. (Miamisburg, OH), a developer of tool-grinding systems and related software.
Full Article Author: Edited by Senior Editor Patrick Waurzyniak
Date: 5/1/2012
Erosion in American manufacturing has been far more dramatic than commonly thought, with sharp declines in both employment and output, according to a new study released by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF; Washington, DC).
Full Article Author: Harry C. Moser, Chairman of the Board, GF AgieCharmilles
Date: 10/1/2008
Which presidential candidate will be best for US manufacturing? Issues to consider before voting November 4th
Full Article Author: Senior Editor James D. Sawyer
Acutronic USA (Pittsburgh), ExOne (North Huntingdon, PA) and Paramount Industries (Langhorne, PA) are the first recipients of Pennsylvania’s Research for Advanced Manufacturing (RAMP) awards.
Full Article Author: Manufacturing Engineering Media Staff
Additive manufacturing is grabbing headlines these days. Just because everyone is talking about it, however, does not mean everyone really understands it. Fortus 3D Production Systems will explain where additive manufacturing is now and where it is going by sponsoring a webinar entitled “Additive Manufacturing 101: Changing the Future of Product Development and Manufacturing.” Fortus is a business unit of Stratasys Inc.
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