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Verisurf Software CEO Ernie Husted explains why there are still many legacy fixed CMMs in the market that are perceived to be obsolete due to outdated software, difficult programming interfaces and lack of trained operators–and how his metrology software firm is working to address this market truth.

Rod Leek of Vektek LLC talks about his company’s line of clamps and workholding products with Senior Editor Bill Koenig.

Charlie Slagle, president and CEO of Hoffmann Group USA, talks with Editor in Chief Alan Rooks about the history of The Hoffmann Group as a tooling manufacturer and distributor in Europe, and its 2016 entry into the US market. The company markets its Garant and Holex brand portfolios and distributes a wide variety of products from other tooling manufacturers.

At the Aerodef conference, SLM Solutions’ Winthrop Sheldon takes on this and several other market-trend questions.

For starters, NASA’s HUNCH program brings projects, mentors, expertise and schools. SME’s PRIME initiative brings mentors, equipment and a scholarship component. “It’s kind of a big deal that those things mesh so well,” says Blake Ratcliff, program manager of NASA HUNCH.

Pratt & Whitney’s Kimberley Hagerty, whose “year of living digitally” was featured in the May issue of Smart Manufacturing magazine, quickly reviews lessons she and her team learned, outlines three main challenges they faced and how she solved them, and describes some of the organizational changes she sees Industry 4.0 demanding of manufacturers.

Dimitrije Milovich, president and CEO of Radius Engineering Inc. (Salt Lake City), discusses the role small manufacturers play in aerospace.

Bonnie Martens, Marketing Communications Manager for Dimplex Thermal Solutions, examines key trends in process cooling; how chillers can be designed for energy efficiency; solutions that increase system uptime; and how the Internet of Things is changing how chillers operate.

Randolph Bradley, Technical Fellow in Supply Chain Management at Boeing, explains the Center for Excellence in Logistics and Distribution’s reason for being, and Boeing’s involvement with the industry-academia partnership. Among what is covered: energy use in the supply chain; demand forecasting using Bayes’ Rule (also used to crack Germany’s Enigma code during WWII), and insights gained from MHI’s US Roadmap for Material Handling and Logistics.

In this podcast, Alan Rooks, Editor in Chief of Manufacturing Engineering magazine, talks with Shannon Bennett, Implementation & Sales Engineer at Visual Knowledge Share Ltd., about the need for electronic work instructions in manufacturing, the development of VKS, the types of manufacturers that use it and the benefits those manufacturers see in their operations.