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Smart Manufacturing Magazine
October 2020
October 2020
The October 2020 edition of Smart Manufacturing is now available as a digital magazine. Links to individual articles are below.
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Rush job? No prob!
September 24, 2020
Improvements in manufacturing management software, robotics, additive manufacturing and thermal controls are making small batch sizes more cost effective—even for smaller shops. Manufacturing plants are able to reduce inventory, improve throughput and reduce demands on human operators.
By
Karen Haywood Queen
Contributing Editor,
SME Media
Manufacturing Management
Smart Manufacturing
Air Force researchers, industry finesse AM tools for large aerospace parts
September 28, 2020
After three years of work, military researchers are near the end of a project to find a faster, cheaper way to make tools for large aerospace parts like skins for wings and fuselages.
By
Ilene Wolff
Contributing Editor,
SME Media
Additive Manufacturing & 3D Printing
Aerospace & Defense
Smart Manufacturing
In the thick of the ‘herculean’ vaccine push
September 21, 2020
In January, as the new coronavirus was rapidly spreading around the world, scientists at Moderna teamed up with the National Institutes of Health to pursue a potential vaccine based on an experimental genetic technology involving messenger RNA (mRNA), a molecule in every cell that helps translate DNA into biological functions.
By
Anastasia Ustinova
Contributing Editor,
SME Media
COVID-19
Smart Manufacturing
Get ready for deep learning technology
September 28, 2020
To a discrete manufacturer, process manufacturing is odd territory indeed. It’s a world in which textiles, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, plastics, and food and beverage are produced en masse.
By
Kip Hanson
Contributing Editor,
SME Media
Smart Manufacturing
Pandemic makes case for more automation, robotics
September 21, 2020
CEO Jason Walker and part of his team at Waypoint Robotics had just returned from the Modex 2020 show in Atlanta when the governor of his company’s home state imposed a stay-at-home order because of COVID-19.
By
Ilene Wolff
Contributing Editor,
SME Media
Automation
COVID-19
Smart Manufacturing
Upfront
NEWS DESK
Machinery Orders Surge in October
Cary Gitter
December 10, 2025
Orders of metalworking machinery came in at $538.9 million in October—up 9% from September and 40.3% from October 2024.
PRESS RELEASES
OGP Names Panos Angelopoulos President of Global Sales
PRESS RELEASE: Optical Gaging Products
December 10, 2025
Optical Gaging Products (OGP), a division of Quality Vision International Inc., a world-leading manufacturer of optical and precision multisensor metrology systems for industrial quality control, has appointed Panos T. Angelopoulos as president, global sales, succeeding R. Stephen Flynn, who is retiring after 31 years with the company.
CES
Terragrit
Staff Writer
December 10, 2025
Terragrit is a VC-backed startup founded by serial entrepreneurs with multiple successful acquisitions, including a $480M exit. Their Adaptive Ops platform enables users to run virtual pilots of complex physical operations - accelerating time-to-model, forecasting outcomes with high accuracy, and making it easier for teams to collaborate across domains. The foundation of their business model is to perform all modeling for free and only charge at the end of first year based on model value.
Manufacturing USA Update
NEWS DESK
Machinery Orders Surge in October
Cary Gitter
December 10, 2025
Orders of metalworking machinery came in at $538.9 million in October—up 9% from September and 40.3% from October 2024.
PRESS RELEASES
OGP Names Panos Angelopoulos President of Global Sales
PRESS RELEASE: Optical Gaging Products
December 10, 2025
Optical Gaging Products (OGP), a division of Quality Vision International Inc., a world-leading manufacturer of optical and precision multisensor metrology systems for industrial quality control, has appointed Panos T. Angelopoulos as president, global sales, succeeding R. Stephen Flynn, who is retiring after 31 years with the company.
CES
Terragrit
Staff Writer
December 10, 2025
Terragrit is a VC-backed startup founded by serial entrepreneurs with multiple successful acquisitions, including a $480M exit. Their Adaptive Ops platform enables users to run virtual pilots of complex physical operations - accelerating time-to-model, forecasting outcomes with high accuracy, and making it easier for teams to collaborate across domains. The foundation of their business model is to perform all modeling for free and only charge at the end of first year based on model value.
Passport to Innovation
NEWS DESK
Machinery Orders Surge in October
Cary Gitter
December 10, 2025
Orders of metalworking machinery came in at $538.9 million in October—up 9% from September and 40.3% from October 2024.
PRESS RELEASES
OGP Names Panos Angelopoulos President of Global Sales
PRESS RELEASE: Optical Gaging Products
December 10, 2025
Optical Gaging Products (OGP), a division of Quality Vision International Inc., a world-leading manufacturer of optical and precision multisensor metrology systems for industrial quality control, has appointed Panos T. Angelopoulos as president, global sales, succeeding R. Stephen Flynn, who is retiring after 31 years with the company.
CES
Terragrit
Staff Writer
December 10, 2025
Terragrit is a VC-backed startup founded by serial entrepreneurs with multiple successful acquisitions, including a $480M exit. Their Adaptive Ops platform enables users to run virtual pilots of complex physical operations - accelerating time-to-model, forecasting outcomes with high accuracy, and making it easier for teams to collaborate across domains. The foundation of their business model is to perform all modeling for free and only charge at the end of first year based on model value.
Field Intelligence
NEWS DESK
Machinery Orders Surge in October
Cary Gitter
December 10, 2025
Orders of metalworking machinery came in at $538.9 million in October—up 9% from September and 40.3% from October 2024.
PRESS RELEASES
OGP Names Panos Angelopoulos President of Global Sales
PRESS RELEASE: Optical Gaging Products
December 10, 2025
Optical Gaging Products (OGP), a division of Quality Vision International Inc., a world-leading manufacturer of optical and precision multisensor metrology systems for industrial quality control, has appointed Panos T. Angelopoulos as president, global sales, succeeding R. Stephen Flynn, who is retiring after 31 years with the company.
CES
Terragrit
Staff Writer
December 10, 2025
Terragrit is a VC-backed startup founded by serial entrepreneurs with multiple successful acquisitions, including a $480M exit. Their Adaptive Ops platform enables users to run virtual pilots of complex physical operations - accelerating time-to-model, forecasting outcomes with high accuracy, and making it easier for teams to collaborate across domains. The foundation of their business model is to perform all modeling for free and only charge at the end of first year based on model value.