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Material Flow and Presentation Starts with Kitting Work Instructions and Job Element Monitoring

05/08/18, 08:40 AM | Supply Chain, Engineering | kitting

Just as kit trays are customized to meet the needs of the individual kits, transport systems documented in work instruction must be customized for efficiency and space utilization.

How Colorants Affect Plastic Characteristics

05/08/18, 08:38 AM | Supply Chain, Engineering | Injection Molding | ICOMold

Believe it or not, there is a whole scientific body of knowledge about the ways in which adding color to plastic can affect the behavioral properties of the plastic.

The Future of Manufacturing is Smart

05/03/18, 09:28 AM | Automation & IIoT, Engineering | Analysis and Trends | Len Calderone - Contributing Author

For decades, we have seen jobs in manufacturing disappearing, but now the jobs are beginning to come back, because technology is helping to produce high-quality goods in the U.S. as inexpensively as in Asia.

The Top 7 Manufacturing Pains Today And How To Remedy Them

05/03/18, 09:26 AM | Supply Chain, Engineering | Opinions and Advice

With over twenty years (20) experience in the error-proofing of complex or safety critical components and products we identified seven (7) manufacturing assembly line pains that still impact manufacturers today

How to Optimize the Scalability & Performance of a Multi-Core Operating System

05/01/18, 08:08 AM | Automation & IIoT, Engineering | software, white paper | IntervalZero

White Paper - Architecting a Scalable Real-Time Application on an SMP Platform

Talking IIOT with Irene Petrick and Faith Mccreary of Intel

05/01/18, 08:06 AM | Automation & IIoT | IIOT, Research and Reports

For Intel to develop components and solutions that can help manufacturers, we must understand manufacturing operating conditions across a wide range of industries and production methods, and we must be able to link current operations to pain points

Grasping the Importance of High-Performance, Industry-Ready Handheld Scanners

04/26/18, 08:49 AM | Automation & IIoT, Engineering | machine vision | Omron Automation

Handheld barcode scanners are essential whenever specific products, clinical samples or work-in-progress (WIP) parts need to be reliably tracked without the luxury of a fully automated system.

Marked for Life: A Glance at Some Common Direct Part Marking Methods

04/24/18, 08:30 AM | Automation & IIoT, Supply Chain | identification, machine vision | Omron Automation

Depending on how long a part or product needs to remain traceable, the relative permanence of various marking methods could be a game-changer. In the aerospace industry, for instance, parts could be in use for as long as 30 years.

How a Less than $100 Part Could Save U.S. Manufacturing

04/24/18, 08:29 AM | Supply Chain, Engineering

The High Torque retention knob is longer by design to reach deeper into the threaded bore of the toolholder. As a result, all thread engagement occurs in a region of the toolholder where there is a thicker cross-section of material to resist deformation.

Talking RAPID + TCT with Joe Wilkers of Mazak

04/19/18, 08:15 AM | Additive & 3D Printing, Supply Chain | RAPID, Tradeshows and Conferences

Well be showcasing our new VC-500 AM, a full five-axis HYBRID Multi-Tasking machine that offers both additive and subtractive manufacturing and Mazaks DONE IN ONE® part processing capability."

Case Study: Ericsson and Freiburg U. Design High Q Power Harvesting Circuit Using ADS

04/19/18, 08:14 AM | Automation & IIoT, Engineering | IIOT

The challenge was to satisfy the impedance matching requirement when the antenna, resonator, and matching components are loaded with the nonlinear diodes.

Talking RAPID + TCT with Protolabs

04/17/18, 08:51 AM | Additive & 3D Printing | RAPID, Tradeshows and Conferences | Proto Labs, Inc.

Well be showcasing some of the most unique parts weve printed in a variety of 3D printing processes and materials over the years, including the latest addition to our 3D printing service offering, HPs Multi Jet Fusion.

Machine Shops Must Prepare for Industry 4.0

04/17/18, 08:47 AM | Additive & 3D Printing | CNC, Industry 4.0 | Megan Ray Nichols - Contributing Author

It's time to upgrade your technology. Industry 4.0 will change the face of your CNC machine shop for the better. This is the future of machine shops. Are you ready?

Simplifying Moisture Measurement to Improve Quality of Powders and Bulk Solids

04/17/18, 08:46 AM | Supply Chain

Instantaneous, "point-and-measure" handheld analyzers that can be operated by virtually any technician deliver lab-quality moisture readings in seconds,

Computational Design for Manufacturing

04/17/18, 08:46 AM | Automation & IIoT, Engineering | Computational Design, Training and Education

Discussing MITs new Professional Education course; Computational Design for Manufacturing

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