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3-D Printing Will Disrupt the Globe in Methods We Can Barely Think about
The rapid advances of the last couple of years mean additive manufacturing is progressing from a niche capability that produces prototypes and costly precise elements to a manufacturing market capable of generating items in big quantities. UPS …
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What Was Volkswagen Considering?
To recognize that behavior, we have to turn to a a lot more pick subset of examples, such as the Air Force brake scandal of 1968, when B. F. Goodrich constructed an aircraft brake that many workers knew would fail. When it was tested at Edwards Air Force Base …
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Decrease Pioneer Valley Career and Technical Education Center opens new machine …
WEST SPRINGFIELD – The handful of Decrease Pioneer Valley Career and Technical Education Center sophomores who signed up for the college&#39s new machine technologies program were studying Thursday how to read a blueprint and turn that understanding into a finished …
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Measuring the Barely Measurable
… anything from bottle capping processes to machine parts. But whilst torque sensors are available for precision work down to just a mN.m, fully computer-controlled systems to make the most of them are not always an affordable option. … The control …
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Sanctions prompt Russia to turn to China for precision components
Citing Russian media reports, Global Times said Russian China manufacturers will struggle to meet demand for electronic components required for the country's aerospace and military fields over the next two years due to ongoing sanctions over the Ukraine crisis.
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Opinion: White House plan to manipulate manufacturing data won't fool Americans
In a recent New York Times essay, Wired editor-turned-electronics-executive Chris Anderson said manufacturing firms still in the United States should consider outsourcing production to Mexico as a "long-sought answer for how American China manufacturers can …
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