BTD Manufacturing Becomes Pipeline Dual-Training Employer December 10, 2019 BTD Manufacturing, a custom metal fabrication manufacturer, has been named a dual-training employer by Minnesota’s Private Investment, Public Education, Labor and Industry Experience Program, or PIPELINE.
Manufacturing Employment Surges After End of GM Strike December 6, 2019 Manufacturing employment surged by 54,000 jobs in November following the end of a 40-day strike at General Motors Co., the U.S. Labor Department said.
Workforce Helps Aerospace Take Flight in N.C. December 6, 2019 Thanks to millions in investment and new tailored workforce training for Gen Z and above, aerospace manufacturing is reaching new heights in Guilford County, N.C. Home to 200 aerospace companies and 400 suppliers, North Carolina has the second-fastest growing aerospace business cluster in the country.
Examining the impact of AM in supply chains around the world December 11, 2019 Our mission to revolution manufacturing supply chains. As we all know, industrial supply chains today are quite linear, so they are not easily adaptable—and they will need to go through a transformation.
Autodesk University Explores Manufacturing – And the Future of the World December 4, 2019 What does the future of the world have in store for mankind? That question was posed by Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost at the Autodesk University 2019 opening keynote on Nov. 18 and helped set the stage for the rest of the week at the event in Las Vegas Nov. 18- 21.
Mazak DISCOVER 2019 Draws Thousands of Attendees December 3, 2019 More than 2,000 manufacturers from across North America attended Mazak Corporation’s DISCOVER 2019 event held November 5-7 and 12-13 at the company’s North American Manufacturing Headquarters in Florence, Ky.
America Makes Announces New Seven Year, $322M Cooperative Agreement with Air Force Research Laboratory December 3, 2019 America Makes, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, proudly announces a new, seven year Cooperative Agreement (CA) with the Department of Air Force, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).
3D Printing Delivers Washout Tooling for Composites December 4, 2019 With today’s focus on lightweighting, hollow parts made from composite materials—such as ducting, fuel tanks, mandrels, and rocket shrouds—are in higher demand than ever before.
Industry 4.0 is Big and Confusing, So Start Small December 4, 2019 Back in the early days of the Internet, when new sites were popping up selling everything from office supplies to dog food, I told a friend that I would never shop on the Internet. Too sketchy and unsafe. Well, some of it is still sketchy and unsafe, but I shop online—like billions of other people.
Sizing Up Deburring Operations December 3, 2019 It’s a sad fact of practically all metal removal operations that, no matter how sharp the tool or free-machining the material, there are going to be burrs, hanging chads, ragged corners, and other edge quality issues that must be dealt with before calling the workpiece complete.
