Markforged Releases Eiger Fleet to Scale Additive Manufacturing
(Markforged: Watertown, MA) -- Markforged, creator of the integrated metal and carbon fiber additive manufacturing platform, The Digital Forge, proudly announces Eiger Fleet,
Choosing the Right Technique for Failure Analysis
Learning from past failures is the best way to understand and prevent future equipment breakdowns. In practice, that learning process falls under the umbrella of failure analysis.
Making Measurements With a Fine-Toothed Comb
To many people, a measurement sounds mundane, like marking ticks on a ruler or reading the line on a thermometer. It’s a piece of data. And they tend to think that improved measurements look like finer and finer ticks on a ruler—which doesn’t seem very exciting.
Animal's ‘Swiss Army Knife’ Could Help Build Better Robots
New research from the Georgia Institute of Technology finds that elephants dilate their nostrils in order to create more space in their trunks, allowing them to store up to 5.5 liters of water.
Regional Hospital Inspires What Baldrige Community Does Best: Benchmarking
‘We didn’t get here on our own,” said Brian Dieter, president and CEO of Baldrige Award-recipient Mary Greeley Medical Center (MGMC), speaking at the
Why Small Manufacturers Should Consider a Manufacturing Execution System
Manufacturers should routinely ask themselves: “How do I know what my problems are?” The old-school way to answer this question was based on having the resources to produce spreadsheets of operational data and the expertise to analyze the data and understand how to r
Hexagon’s Reverse Engineering Solution, Recreate, Debuted at RAPID + TCT 2021
(Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division announced the North American debut of REcreate, a new reverse engineering software solution at RAPID + TCT 2021.
Making Effective Use of Outside Innovation
Bringing innovation inside an established firm, even one that has created novel ideas in the past, is not as simple as just purchasing bundled external knowledge and expecting it to work wonders at headquarters right away.
Insights From the Field: Training Is More Than Onboarding
I was recently on a trip to visit a manufacturing facility for one of our clients. My connecting flight didn’t arrive on time, which delayed my arrival and put me on a tight schedule.