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…
Automakers are adding greater digital capabilities to their design and engineering activities to promote collaboration among staff and suppliers, input consumer feedback, shorten product development cycles, and meet evolving end-use needs. Renaissance Services helps manufacturing companies improve their processes from…
U.S. military leadership has known the Pentagon is falling quickly behind the technological curve and opening itself to new and developing threats, but military brass still don’t know how to fix it. Fingers are often pointed at the military’s acquisition…
Although his jet engine program has struggled through high-profile development hiccups and criticism for its price tag, the head of military engines at Pratt & Whitney said Thursday his major threats are forced cuts to the Pentagon‘s budget. And the F-35…
itSeez3D, a leading developer of mobile scanning software, has developed an update to its 3D scanner application. Designed to work with the world’s first 3D sensor for mobile devices, Occipital Structure Sensor, itSeez3D now allows the iPad to create realistic…
“If we are going to have 3D printers make spare and replacement parts for critical items in space, we have to be able to make spare parts for the printers,” NASA project manager Niki Werkheiser said in the statement. “The…
Looks like big data and software are delivering heightened optimization to U.S. manufacturing. John Zegers, director of the Georgia Center of Innovation for Manufacturing, sees the ability to collect and use data as a tool to improve plant efficiency. Renaissance…
Here are a few more reasons to use 3D printing for making individual parts for cars and scooters, and investment casting from Solvay, Stratasys, and several divisions of CRP Group. This slideshow also includes Solvay’s work in replacing metal with…
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…