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Robots have become able co-pilots on the factory floor as painters, sanders, machine tenders, and materials transporters.

Two NASA engineers discuss how new metal alloys will aid advanced propulsion concepts.

The SME Composites Technical Community and the National Institute for Aviation Research co-hosted an Aerospace Composites Forum in July at Wichita State University.

Advanced automated solutions and predictive analytics help solve the challenges of disruption.

Looking back on a long career of learning, sharing, and always trying to do your best.

To achieve automated customization, cheaper, better robots and improved additive manufacturing are essential.

Automation is becoming more advanced, but human partners are critical for success.

Proper drill selection, the geometry built into the drills themselves, applying proper drilling parameters, and a few tips and tricks from the pros can address nagging drilling problems such as drill breakage, unbroken chips, tool runout, poor hole edges, and poor tool life.

Glenn Bridgman describes the difference between his shop’s manual grinders and its newest state-of-the-art CNC ID/OD grinder, a Studer CT960 OD/ID from United Grinding (Miamisburg, OH), as “feel vs. facts.” Bridgman, president of Bridge Tool & Die (Buckley, MI), believes that manual grinding is a somewhat personal operation.

Materials science has opened new possibilities for designers of cars, planes and other products. Metal alloys are now as precisely engineered as they are machined. The result is longer lasting, stronger parts. But with a wider selection of materials comes risk—how can you be sure that one piece of gray metal stock is different than another? Careful warehousing procedures and paperwork only go so far.