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Fastener Manufacturer Cuts Energy Use in Half While Streamlining Production
March 4, 2020
A Swedish manufacturer of high strength stainless steel fasteners, BUMAX, has reduced the energy it uses for heating and electricity at its Åshammar facility by over 50 percent since 2011 – to significantly reduce its carbon emissions and further streamline the production of BUMAX products.
Microgrids Power Energy Resiliency, Reduced Carbon Emissions
November 8, 2019
According to the Eaton Blackout Tracker, 36.7 million people were affected by more than 3,500 power outages in the U.S. in 2017 alone. These outages lasted twice as long as the year before, keeping the lights off for an average of nearly eight hours per disruption.
By Asim Hussain
Vice President, Commercial Strategy & Customer Experience,
Bloom Energy
Power Play
November 8, 2019
Located at the center of Canada’s Niagara Peninsula, Brock University is a public research university in St. Catharines, Ontario, with a total enrollment of over 19,000 students. Graduates enjoy one of the highest employment rates of all Ontario universities—96.5 percent within two years of graduation.
Energy Parts Machining
November 7, 2019
The ever-volatile oil and natural gas industry—roiled most recently by September’s drone attacks on Saudi Arabian oil facilities that temporarily reduced the kingdom’s output by nearly half (about 5 percent of global production)—faces particularly challenging requirements for machined components to meet evolving supply targets.
By Geoff Giordano
Contributing Editor,
SME Media
U.S. on Verge of New Status as a Net Energy Exporter
November 7, 2019
The United States is about to begin a new era as a net energy exporter, according to U.S. Energy Department projections. The shift will snap a 67-year streak of being a net energy importer, going back to 1953.
JTEKT Toyoda Americas to Harness Solar Power at HQ in Arlington Heights, IL
September 12, 2019
For untold millennia, the power of the sun has provided sustenance to mankind. On a late summer day, as the sun beat down on suburban Chicago, executives at JTEKT Toyoda Americas Corp. celebrated the launch of a new solar energy system that will help power the facility and sustain the environment for the future.
By Alan Rooks
Editor in Chief,
Manufacturing Engineering
By Larry Adams
Contributing Writer,
SME Media
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Expert OpinionU.S. on Verge of New Status as a Net Energy Exporter
November 7, 2019The United States is about to begin a new era as a net energy exporter, according to U.S. Energy Department projections. The shift will snap a 67-year streak of being a net energy importer, going back to 1953. -
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Securing OT in the Energy and Utilities Sector
August 15, 2019Convergence-enabled cyberattacks—where criminals exploit traditionally isolated operational technology (OT) devices through their new connections to the IT network—may be motivated by the desire to hijack and demand ransom for services, steal trade secrets through industrial or national cyberespionage, or commit cyberterrorism or engage in cyberwarfare. -
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Deep-Hole Drilling Continues to Evolve
April 1, 2016Mention deep-hole drilling, and most people think only gundrilling machines for processing gun barrels. But the fact is that deep-hole drilling applies to a much wider array of workpieces that are typically impossible to drill with common CNC machining centers.
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