Operations
Most environmental monitoring programs I see are run in a clean, cold, empty plant. Sanitation finishes at 4 a.m., the swabs go down at 5, the results come back negative, and the report gets filed. The program is compliant. It’s also, in the way that matters, telling you almost nothing.
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The world needs more homes. The world also has too much plastic. Perhaps the only thing those two problems have in common is that they’re hard to solve.
Atlas Building Composites, a spinout of MIT, is on a mission to address both problems with a single solution. The company has…
Metrology, the scientific study of measurement, has never been faster or more precise. Yet many quality problems that land on a CMM table were decided weeks earlier, when someone measured against a drawing that was no longer the approved one.
Closing that gap isn’t a measurement…
Consider a hypothetical turned shaft with a diameter specified as 20.000 mm ± 0.010 mm. The supplier reports 20.009 mm, just inside the upper limit of 20.010 mm, with an expanded measurement uncertainty of 0.003 mm. The buyer puts the shipment on hold: The uncertainty interval extends beyond the…
If you’re familiar with the maker community, you may already have encountered WhippetInTech, from a design engineer who documents his builds on YouTube. His projects span CAD design, CNC machining, and 3D printing anywhere that advanced technology can be applied creatively.
As…
Manufacturing Day fell on Oct. 2 this year. Manufacturers opened their doors and showed the public what modern manufacturing looks like, and, hopefully, built some interest in manufacturing careers.
Visitors saw robots, sensors, software, and connected production systems. What…