Siemens Advances Digital Twin Technology for Machining October 15, 2020 In a virtual event conducted over the internet on October 15, Siemens introduces new capabilities for its Sinumerik One control package.
Weymouth and Bial join Xometry Board of Directors October 14, 2020 Xometry, the on-demand manufacturing marketplace, announced that Katharine Weymouth and Deborah Bial will join Xometry's Board of Directors as independent directors.
Two Companies Win 2020 National Metalworking Reshoring Award October 9, 2020 Die-Tech & Engineering and Trenton Forging Co. (TFC) received the 2020 National Metalworking Reshoring Award in recognition of their success in bringing manufacturing back to the United States.
Stratasys moving beyond tooling October 27, 2020 Rich, General Motors recently invested in 17 production-grade FDM printers, intending to use them for 3D-printed tooling. The term “tooling” is quite broad, however. Can you share details about what types of tooling GM and others are 3D printing, and why?
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.
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.
As process optimization grows up, it leads some big rescue missions October 22, 2020 Until 2017, Schneider Electric faced a factory bottleneck at its breaker box plant in Lexington, Kentucky. When the automation cell that welded the boxes went down, all production could be forced to stop.
AMRs strut their stuff during pandemic, beyond December 8, 2020 In August, Rob Sullivan had an installation scheduled for two of his autonomous mobile robots at the Deutsche Post DHL Group’s Innovation Center in Troisdorf, Germany.
Manufacturing Expansion Eases in September October 1, 2020 Manufacturing economic expansion eased in September while remaining at strong levels overall, the Institute for Supply Management said today.
