Power in the Hands of the Portfolio Manager September 8, 2020 Automakers are turning to Feature-based Product Line Engineering (PLE), which allows organizations to plan, engineer, manufacture, deliver, maintain and evolve product lines much more efficiently.
Change The Culture, Fill The Skills Gap June 24, 2020 Colleges and universities are playing a crucial role helping North Carolina address a statewide skilled labor shortage.
How Bright is the Future of Automation? April 17, 2020 In the 1955 short story “Autofac,” Philip K. Dick envisioned a world dominated by self-replicating robots that work incessantly, eventually depleting the planet’s resources.
What My Inbox Tells Us About AM February 20, 2020 One of the informal ways I keep track of industry trends is by counting the number of press releases I get on particular topics. As the editor in chief of Manufacturing Engineering, I get a lot of them, as many as 50-60 per day.
Can Upskilling Help A&D Firms Continue to Thrive? February 5, 2020 The aerospace and defense (A&D) sector is thriving as demand for air travel increases along with growing worldwide defense needs. But to fulfill customer expectations, the sector has to continue to innovate—and innovation requires digital acumen.
Determined to pull U.S. out of state of ‘pilot purgatory’ January 13, 2020 John Dyck, the CEO of CESMII (the Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute), doesn’t mince words, and for that manufacturers in the U.S. owe him a debt of gratitude.
