3D printing and additive manufacturing (AM) won’t be replacing high-volume mass manufacturing anytime soon. But no one really expects that. Instead, these technologies have been making inroads in industries with high-value products that benefit from 3D printing’s ability to make…
Advanced tools for design visualization, illustration, and animation are helping design engineers create realistic representations of their products. Continually enhanced tools allow users to quickly create photorealistic CAD renderings and animations that can convey ideas and explain designs to manufacturers…
Product designers who are working with 3D printing design, development, and manufacturing also should take heed. Design the way you’ve always designed, and you won’t get anything out of 3D printing that’s different from what you’ve always gotten before 3D…
More than 35 years later, the post-mortem on one of the country’s worst engineering disasters appears to be simple. A contractor asked for a change in an original design. The change was approved by engineers, later resulting in a mammoth…
Technologies ranging from supervisory control and data acquisition to enterprise resource planning have made factories smart, and they are getting smarter every day. Just how much smarter factories can become will be determined largely by the research and development of…
The Genesis was a NASA probe designed to gather a sample of solar wind and return it to earth — the first mission designed to bring samples back since the Apollo Program. Launched on August 8, 2004, the probe did…
Airbus is moving into 3D printing for manufacturing its aircraft in a major way. That’s right — not just prototyping parts, but making final, end-product components. Renaissance Services continues to grow our 3D printing efforts. Read More…
Big Data seems to be everywhere these days. The vast amounts of data compiled by manufacturing operations—and how to collect, analyze, leverage, and secure this invaluable data—pose a dilemma for manufacturers of all stripes. Renaissance Services is heavily involved and…
One customer wants you to enter inspection data directly into their web-based screens; a second customer requires the actual’s to be entered in their specific Excel format; meanwhile the third customer insists you to load the characteristic requirements into their…
In industries like aerospace, defense, or automotive where an adulterated part or component can have a catastrophic effect to your business performance, managing supplier quality and compliance are top-of-mind issues for executives. With sometimes thousands of such relationships and dependencies,…