HEADLINES ARCHIVE
Cleaning Machine Boosts 3D Printing Potential
The machine cleans by circulating fluids around and through the piece. Several sets of controls prevent damage to the piece.
LED Lights Cut Warehouse Picking Errors
A system of fork-mounted LED lights can help users reduce error rates in batch-picking operations.
Amazon Drone Makes First British Delivery
A quadcopter drone delivered an Amazon Fire TV box and a bag of popcorn to a customer.
Sodium Bicarbonate Is an Environmentally Friendly Blasting Abrasive
Soda blasting offers a gentle yet effective way to clean, remove paint, and degrease a wide variety of substrates, including steel, lead, aluminum, alloys, plastics, rubbers, composites, and masonry materials.
Smart Sensors Underpin the Industrial Internet of Things
Employing the IIoT starts with the right sensors measuring the right parameters on the right industrial equipment collecting the right data, and then sending that information to the cloud for analysis.
Digitizing the Global Supply Chain
Few dispute the idea that digital technology can modernize shipping ports and the global supply chain. However, stakeholders first may have to clear some fundamental obstacles.
Tech Firms Create Virtual Reality Supergroup
Several of the biggest names in technology are joining forces to push innovation in the burgeoning world of virtual reality.
Quaker Expands Auto Presence with Lubricor Purchase
Pennsylvania-based Quaker Chemical Corp. bought Lubricor Inc., a metalworking fluids manufacturer, for $11.8 million.
Study Forecasts Metalworking Fluids Market Growth to 2024
A growing automotive industry is the key factor driving the global metalworking fluids market.
Subway Wins Award for Quality Assurance Work
Best practices included in the DevOps implementation include continuous integration process for all automation projects, in-sprint automation for better ROI, and payment manager automation.
Firm Aims to Help Legal Cannabis Growers Go Green
Marijuana is the most energy intense manufacturing process in the United States today. Producing a pound of marijuana uses 300 times more energy than producing a pound of aluminum.
Cement Materials: An Overlooked Carbon Sink?
The natural carbonation process of cement materials represents a large and growing sink of CO2.
Making Red Mud Greener
About 120 million tons of new red mud waste is produced yearly, which poses environmental risks that include the leaching of harmful chemicals into groundwater.
Funding for University R&D Falls for Fourth Year in Row
Adjusted for inflation, federal funding for higher education R&D declined 1.7% between FY 2014 and FY 2015.
Traveling Over the Holidays? RFID Could Help
Improvements in baggage handling rates may not have to come at a significant cost.
Specialized Thermoplastics in an Evolving Global Market
Across a broad spectrum of applications, companies continue to demand higher performing products, requiring higher performing materials.
Sensors That “Hear” When Something Is Wrong at the Factory
The micro sensors can tell whether a machine is operating correctly by listening to the mechanical sounds and determining whether the sound indicates a properly running unit.
Adding Flexibility to Aerospace-grade Titanium Alloys
The FAST-forge process shows how the benefits of titanium over steel can be achieved more efficiently and at lower cost.
Companies Agree to Develop Market for Traction Inverters
Strukton and AmePower will seek business from public transport companies that refurbish fleets or add rolling stock.
Siemens Foundation Expands STEM Middle-Skill Initiative
Jobs in STEM fields often pay salaries upwards of $50,000 after two years or less of higher education.