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Customers’ typical consumption patterns have returned, leaving manufacturers to face excess capacity and costs. Here are the strategies they are using to respond.
A Macomb school facility has been partially dedicated to maritime manufacturing workforce development for CNC programming and MIG/TIG welding programs.
Space exploration fuels the drive to develop original takes on age-old problems, and there’s a good chance that the public will use other equally life-changing and useful space products in ways
Digital twins, artificial intelligence and the metaverse are three powerful technologies rapidly converging to shape the future, says John Vickers, NASA Principal Technologist for Advanced
Often mistaken for a "digital twin," a virtual twin is a computer model of a physical component, but is largely limited to product design and simulation. Generally speaking, it has
ERP is software that manufacturers use to track and manage quotes, sales orders, purchasing, scheduling, inventory, shipping, invoicing, and payments. Some common examples include SAP, Epicor,
Orders for new metalworking machinery soared in August to more than $529 million, according to the latest U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Report.
There's a red, yellow, and green traffic light perched atop most CNC machine tools. It's called an Andon, a Lean tool that automotive engineers at Toyota invented as a visual
This is the generic term for FDM, first coined to avoid trademark infringements.