Last week’s International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) drew more than 111,000 registrants from 112 countries to see 15,000 new machine tools, controls, computers, software, and components of virtually all kinds. This year, the Chicago-based show, as it has for more…
In a lengthy proposal released last week, former NASA researcher and current University of Central Florida professor Dr. Phil Metzger argues that the development of a mining and manufacturing supply chain in space is both plausible and beneficial. Metzger, whose…
Aircraft and automotive applications continue to lead applications for composites product development, as well as a lot of the effort for making processes, especially carbon fiber composite production, simpler and cheaper for manufacturing higher volumes. This batch of new composite…