Recently added articles from Manufacturing Engineering:
You'll Make It
Feb 01, 2009; ... It's truly impressive to consider the technologies available to today's manufacturing professionals. Despite the rather lousy economic situation everyone faces, suppliers to the world's manufacturing industries continue to innovate. They clearly believe that technology sells, and that if they ...
Metrology for Job Shops?
Feb 01, 2009; ... Anew, small-arm-type 3-D CMM is so portable you can hand-carry it anywhere In your shop and put it on a surface plate, or even the table of your machine tool. A machine operator, with very little training, can accurately inspect parts on the spot, and then send the results back to the shop's ...
Paving the Way Through Recognition
Feb 01, 2009; ... SME established its International Awards and Recognition Program in 1954. The first award recipients were honored at the Society's 1955 Annual Meeting. Today, SME continues the long-standing tradition of recognizing its members for their accomplishments by offering the following ...
Forming and Fabricating Member Recognized
Feb 01, 2009; ... William J. Riffe, PhD, was recently honored for his professional accom- plishments and tireless dedication to the Society during the Installation of Officers and Annual Holiday Dinner hosted by Michigan Chapters 1 and 69. Riffe earned his PhD in civil engineering from Carnegie Institute of ...
NAMRC 37 to be Held in South Carolina
Feb 01, 2009; ... In 2009, the North American Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC) will be held in South Carolina for the first time. The industry focus for the conference will be the automotive sector, both OEMs and suppliers. The event will take place May 19-22 at the new home for the Clemson University ...
Chicago Is Dirtier Because We Drink Less Coffee
Feb 01, 2009; ... Globalization has caused some strange interactions. For example, because Americans now buy less coffee from coffee shops, a Chicago wasterecycling program is in trouble, according to a report from that city's North Park Recycling Center. Here's the chain of events: Chicago's cleanup ...
Budget Cuts Possible
Feb 01, 2009; ... A poll of 450 HR professionals by the Society for Human Relations (Arlington, VA ) had some grim predictions, assuming there are no changes in the nation's current economic condition: Budget cuts across entire organizations are likely: 70% Hiring freezes are also likely: ...
It's Not All Bad News
Feb 01, 2009; ... The annual survey of 600 US manufacturing company CFOs commissioned by Bank of America (Charlotte, NC) shows some brightness. Company revenues will increase this year: 50% Increased profit margins: 37% Current state of the economy will have no impact on growth plans: ...
We Should Be More Competitive
Feb 01, 2009; ... According to a White Paper from the Association of University Research Parks (Tucson), our country needs a national strategy to support Federally designated American Innovation Zones. These zones would receive special incentives, and other programmatic support, based on ...
EU Increases R&D Funding
Feb 01, 2009; ... The EU 2008 Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard shows that the rate of EU business R&D invest- ment growth increased by 8.8%, up from the 2007 figure of 7.4%. At the same time, the rate of investment growth for US companies dropped sharply from 13.3% to 8.6%. In particular, ...
Productivity Center Opens
Feb 01, 2009; ... Sandvik Coromant (Fair Lawn, NJ) has opened its Chicago Productivity Center in Schaumburg, IL, to help manufacturers optimize their metalcutting operations. This is Sandvik Coromant's fourth center of its kind in North America and second in the US. Centers achieve their objectives through a ...
State College R&D Spending
Feb 01, 2009; ... A new Policy Brief from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (Washington, DC) makes a case for leveraging university R&D spending to promote state economic ...
Partnerships
Feb 01, 2009; ... Pibomulti North America (Auburn Hills, MI), a provider of precision Swiss-made machine tool accessories, established a partnership with Algra S.p.A. (Marzoni, Italy), a manufacturer of VDI-driven machine-tool accessories, including turrets, multispindle heads, and angle heads. Anark ...
Distributors
Feb 01, 2009; ... GGB Bearing Technology (Thorofare, NY), a maker of steel-backed polymer products, has appointed Delamac ...
Expansion
Feb 01, 2009; ... Alcoa Fastening Systems Industrial Distribution Group (Tracy, CA), suppliers of Marson, Recoil, Keysert, and Huck-brand fastening products, has a new headquarters. This 25,000 ft2 facility provides an improved distribution network. Metris (Euronext, Brussels) now has a 30,000 ft2 (2787 ...
Aquisitions
Feb 01, 2009; ... EMS Technologies (Atlanta, GA), a specialist in satellite-based applications for tracking people and assets worldwide, acquired Acquire Satamatics (Tewkesbury, UK), a provider of Inmarsat IsatM2M (machine-to-machine or M2M) services. This service lets organizations locate, track, and communicate ...
Deals
Feb 01, 2009; ... The Baumer Group (Southington, CT), a supplier of sensor solutions, motion-control equipment, vision technologies, and process instrumentation, merged its four independent divisions into one entity focusing on motion-control solutions. Products for the company include incremental and absolute ...
Controls Software Helps Optimize Metalcutting Efficiency
Feb 01, 2009; ... SOFTWARE Karl Rapp is automation & machine tool branch manager for Bosch Rexroth Corp. -Electric Drives and Controls (Hoffman Estates, IL), a developer of controls and automation equipment. Manufacturing Engineering: What are some new developments in controls-related ...
Renishaw Licenses Camio Software
Feb 01, 2009; ... Metrology developers Renishaw pic (Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, UK) and Metris (Leuven, Belgium) announced an agreement under which Renishaw has licensed the source code for Metris' Camio CMM software. In order to support further development, Renishaw has also employed a number of Metris ...
New Releases
Feb 01, 2009; ... The latest Powerlnspect Version 5 software package from Delcam plc (Birmingham, UK, and Windsor, ON, Canada) has added support for the five-axis REVO probe from Renishaw pic (Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, UK). Updated features in Powerlnspect enable hardware-independent inspec- ...