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In auto racing, small details have a major impact on success—a concept very familiar to performance racing parts provider Oliver Racing Parts (Charlevoix, MI). Oliver produces performance connecting rods for the world’s leading engine builders.

Siemens uses the close interaction of software and hardware to support both machine manufacturers and machine tool operators on their way to becoming a digital enterprise—providing a vital contribution to the advancement of machine tool digitalization.

When it comes to using new materials, medical and dental device makers are ultra-conservative—because they need to clear devices through a thicket of federal regulators.

In Kentucky, a request from an equine podiatrist for special aluminum corrective horseshoes for horses with hoof or gait problems or for thoroughbred yearlings might not seem unusual. At least that’s how it appeared to Paul Strippelhoff, vice president of manufacturing, Carbide Products Inc. (Georgetown, KY), especially when some pretty big orders came in for a local equine facility.

It’s the perfect storm for manufacturers: Thousands of skilled Baby Boomer workers have begun retiring, and digitization of the manufacturing process is sweeping nearly all areas of the industry. The Deloitte/Manufacturing Institute 2017 study predicts a shortage of two million workers in the next decade.

While suppliers are under more pressure than ever to produce precision parts faster and with less scrap, in-process metrology means manufacturers can detect as soon as possible when a part is going wrong, correcting the issue quickly and saving it from scrap.

Airbus has achieved a 3D printing first with the installation of a 3D printed titanium bracket on a series production commercial aircraft. Manufactured by Arconic, a global technology, engineering, and advanced manufacturing company, the 3D printed titanium bracket was installed on a series production Airbus commercial aircraft, the A350 XWB.

As of Wednesday, Aug. 16, the American Manufacturing Council is no longer active: President Donald J. Trump disbanded the Council and the Strategic and Policy Forum on the same day members of the Council had a conference call to discuss what to do in the aftermath of his remarks about the violence that erupted in Charlottesville, VA., during a “unite the right” rally last weekend.

Manufacturers face a difficult task juggling the current “innovation agenda.” Today, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), robotic automation and artificial intelligence (AI) are all poised to be the next big thing.

Conrad Leiva, vice president for product strategy and alliance at iBASEt and chair of the smart manufacturing working group at MESA International, speaks with Smart Manufacturing magazine Editor in Chief Brett Brune.