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HP Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) said today it’s introducing an industrial-sized 3D printer and expanding its offering of materials for additive manufacturing.

Ohio-based LSPT—its name stands for Laser Shock Peening Technologies—is busy preparing to test the use of exploding vapor from water heated by a laser beam to create tiny deformations in the surface of materials used to build aircraft, to improve crack propagation—and therefore fatigue behavior—in the area.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

As of Wednesday, Aug. 16, the American Manufacturing Council is no longer active: President Donald J. Trump disbanded the Council and the Strategic and Policy Forum on the same day members of the Council had a conference call to discuss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.

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.

Product lifecycle management (PLM) software helps manufacturers manage, shape, guide, and refine new product developments, speeding up the design and production process.