Good News for Smaller Manufacturers January 26, 2022 Larger manufacturing enterprises have benefitted from smart-manufacturing innovations while smaller manufacturers have lagged behind—but that is changing.
Thanks for the Memories! January 7, 2022 Manufacturing Engineering editor-in-chief Alan Rooks is retiring.
DSM Recycled Plastic Wins Award December 8, 2021 DSM Engineering Materials said Ford Motor Co., HellermannTyton, and DSM earned an Innovation Award from the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) for the use of Akulon RePurposed recycled ocean plastic in the Ford Bronco Sport.
Energy Industry Demands New Mix of Parts November 29, 2021 While fossil fuels dominate the energy market, expect a new mix of parts as renewable energy and EVs grow in market share.
Rolls-Royce Germany Finds Way to Increase a Grinding Capacity October 12, 2020 Christoph Fedler, project director for equipment management at Rolls-Royce Germany, was facing a challenge: He needed to increase the available capacity of the prime discipline at the Oberursel facility, namely micrometer-precise grinding of curvic couplings.
Improved Bucking Bars Speed Production, Increase Safety October 12, 2020 To speed production and increase worker safety in the aerospace industry, major manufacturers are willing to pay a higher price for quality equipment.
UR Helps Tool Gauge Double Production of Components October 13, 2020 Tacoma, Washington-based Tool Gauge manufactures precision metal and plastic components and assemblies for the aerospace industry.
The Future is Electric for Aerospace Composites October 7, 2020 Composite materials consist of fibers—in the aerospace industry, they are typically glass, carbon or kevlar—suspended in a matrix of epoxy resin.
Embracing Digital Twins October 1, 2020 The concept of the digital twin in A&D was born in the 1970s, when NASA began employing full-scale virtual mock-ups of space capsules to forecast the performance of machines in outer space.
