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Smashed Cars, Burnt Trees, Soggy Insulation
Communities across the U.S. Southeast and Midwest are assessing damage from the deadly and widespread tornado outbreak on Dec. 10–11, 2021. It’s clear that the cleanups will take months and possibly years. Dealing with enormous quantities of debris and waste materials is one of the most…
Smashed Cars, Burnt Trees, Soggy Insulation
Communities across the U.S. Southeast and Midwest are assessing damage from the deadly and widespread tornado outbreak on Dec. 10–11, 2021. It’s clear that the cleanups will take months and possibly years. Dealing with enormous quantities of debris and waste materials is one of the most…
Smashed Cars, Burnt Trees, Soggy Insulation
Communities across the U.S. Southeast and Midwest are assessing damage from the deadly and widespread tornado outbreak on Dec. 10–11, 2021. It’s clear that the cleanups will take months and possibly years. Dealing with enormous quantities of debris and waste materials is one of the most…
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence Carrying Torch for DED Additive Manufacturing
(Hexagon: Formnext, Frankfurt am Main) -- Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division has revealed new developments that advance the application of directed energy deposition (DED) technologies to industrial applications, including collaborations with printer manufacturers pro-beam, Sciaky, DM3D…
Michigan Metrology Offers Roughness, Texture, and Tribology Short Course
(Michigan Metrology: Livonia, MI) -- Registration is now open for a Surface Roughness, Texture, and Tribology short course hosted by Michigan Metrology in Livonia, Michigan, May 8–9, 2024. The two-day class offers a unique opportunity to learn the fundamentals of surface roughness, friction, and…
Three Steps to Reduce Complexity in Product Configurations
As customer demands for more customization and choice increase, the complexity of products and associated product design, manufacturing, and sales processes also increase. Product life cycles are also getting shorter, requiring a constant flow of new products with high-value features and…
Here’s the Real Difference Between Amateurs and Professionals
During the past decade, I’ve seen several dozen variations of the following urban legend posted online: A large oceangoing ship stalled at sea when its engine broke down. None of the shipboard maintenance crew could repair it, so the shipping company helicoptered a consultant out to the stranded…
Rochester Electronics Receives IATF-16949 Letter of Conformance
(Rochester Electronics: Newburyport, MA) -- Rochester Electronics announces it has earned a letter of conformance, confirming its quality management system (QMS) complies with the requirements of the standard IATF 16949:2016, which defines the requirements of a quality management system for…
Achieving Better Medtech Outcomes With Proactive Post-Market Surveillance
In the medtech space, all roads lead to quality. Unlike pharma, which looks at safety and quality separately, all of the information around risk and vigilance to inform product improvement will be housed within a medtech company’s quality management system (QMS). The primary goal of post-market…
Using NVH System Prediction for Early Design and Virtual Prototyping
Siemens Digital Industries Software introduces System NVH Prediction, a new Simcenter software application. It can bring the benefits of a comprehensive digital-twin approach to accurately and easily predict the interior and exterior noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) performance of a vehicle…
Creativity May Suffer When Mature Projects Change Hands
Justin Berg has watched Back to the Future at least 25 times. Same with the DVD special features—the voiceovers and backstory and interviews. It’s his favorite movie, and he’s long believed that part of the film’s greatness is attributable to the fact that writer-director Robert Zemeckis oversaw…
Exact Metrology Scans Celebrity-Themed Soaps
(Exact Metrology: Cincinnati) -- Exact Metrology: A Division of In-Place Machining Company and a comprehensive 3D metrology service provider and hardware sales company, recently used blue-light scanning technology to mass produce celebrity-themed soaps. These soaps will be sold by a nonprofit for…
How Associations Can Improve New-Member Retention
Any association would love a member-retention rate of 75 percent. Unfortunately, according to a 2017 report cited in the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) publication, Associations Now, retention rates for all associations are falling. While in 2016, 73 percent of associations…
What E-Commerce Will Look Like in 2022
Getting your product into customers’ hands is often an undervalued—and under-engineered—part of your organization’s value chain. If the pandemic’s effect on our supply chains has taught us anything, it’s this: Diligent reevaluation of our modus operandi is a must for success. When the Covid…
Vision Engineering Launches VE Cam, a Compact Digital Microscope
(Vision Engineering: New Milford, CT) -- Vision Engineering announces the launch of VE Cam, a new, simple-to-use compact digital microscope for a wide range of applications at APEX 2022. The VE Cam digital microscope was launched at Productronica 2021 in Munich and makes its North American debut at…
How Can the Sum of Skewed Variables Be Normally Distributed?
On the face of it, it seems to be impossible for skewed variables to add up to a normally distributed result. Yet both common experience and mathematical theory combine to show us that this does indeed happen. In fact it is a fundamental property of probability theory which, in turn, explains the…
Four Essential Tools to Make Your Messages Stickier
They’re with me, I just know it, at least I think they’re with me... OK, maybe not. Oh no! They’re gone. Well, thank goodness that’s over! Has that happened to you? How about the following: • I addressed this issue 30 minutes ago. How did they forget so soon? They have minds like sieves—easy in…
Fully Automatic Picking of Unknown Products From Bulk Material
In intralogistics, there has been a real hype about robotics for some years now, whether in trade journals or at fairs. Most of them are classic six-axis articulated robots that are looking for their way out of a production environment and into logistics. The goal: fully automated small-parts…
Design’s New Frontier
First published Nov. 19, 2021, on MIT News. In the 1960s, the advent of computer-aided design (CAD) sparked a revolution in design. For his Ph.D. thesis in 1963, MIT professor Ivan Sutherland developed Sketchpad, a game-changing software program that enabled users to draw, move, and resize shapes…
Fortify Your Business: Five Practices for Stellar Cybersecurity
(Nordlocker: Panama) -- The human element remains the weakest link in cybersecurity, as an annual report reveals that 85 percent of all data breaches are in one way or another caused by an employee. As digital technologies become essential in modern organizations, no industry is safe from…
Eight Defences and Responses to Ransomware Attacks
There were seven people seated around the table: The CEO, the VP, the CFO, the special agent from the FBI, the owner, the forensics technician, and the company’s CISO (chief information security officer). “Don’t pay,” was the CEO’s vote. Same for the VP. “Pay it,” was the owner’s response. The CFO…
It’s Not ‘The Great Resignation.’ It’s Actually ‘The Great Recognition.’
Some are calling it, “The Great Resignation.” Others are calling it “The Great Reshuffle.” After spending the past year as executive director of America Works, I’ve talked with more than 250 manufacturing workforce development professionals throughout the MEP National Network and our partners.…
Boosting Vaccine Production Needs the Right Degree of Flexibility
The pandemic has seen an unprecedented global effort to accelerate the development of safe and effective vaccines as well as a rapid expansion of vaccine manufacturing capacity. However, challenges in further scaling up vaccine manufacturing capacity to meet higher-than-expected demand, and the…
Boosting Vaccine Production Needs the Right Degree of Flexibility
The pandemic has seen an unprecedented global effort to accelerate the development of safe and effective vaccines as well as a rapid expansion of vaccine manufacturing capacity. However, challenges in further scaling up vaccine manufacturing capacity to meet higher-than-expected demand, and the…
Marposs’ NVH Gear Tester Helps EV Manufacturers Achieve Silent Drivetrains
(Marposs: Auburn Hills, MI) -- Marposs, a leader in measurement, inspection, and test technologies, has announced its NVH Gear Tester for identifying potential gear defects at the component level prior to gear box assembly. The NVH gear tester, which works on the single-flank testing principle of…

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