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SME recently spoke with Grant Lawton, engineer at W.L. Gore & Associates, to discuss how to better understand cable performance in tethered drone applications. He specializes in cable engineering and design that supports aerospace data and power systems, including Ethernet, Fibre Channel, FireWire, and Databus, among many other protocols. He is a featured presenter at this year’s AeroDef event.

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Blockchain in additive manufacturing (AM) offers immediate opportunities for military use, said Kenneth Church of nScrypt.

Because blockchain was designed and intended first as a secure, public ledger for Bitcoin, some challenges have emerged with early applications in manufacturing, Microsoft’s Diego Tamburini said. “Originally, blockchain wasn’t intended for enterprise systems. Establishing smart contracts and integrating blockchain with new manufacturing systems is difficult because blockchain wasn’t born in the enterprise.”

In this podcast, Alan Rooks, Editor in Chief of Manufacturing Engineering magazine, talks with Don Davies, vice president, DP Technology Corp., the developer of Esprit CAM/CAD software about how post-processing in CAM is key to success in machining, DP Technology’s approach to post processing, and how the Esprit solution differs from similar products in the market.

The SME Education Foundation was highlighted in an extended feature in The New York Times on preparing high school students for careers in robotics within the manufacturing and engineering industry.