HEADLINES ARCHIVE
What Do Industrial Engineers Do?
IEs are responsible for optimizing complex systems and eliminating waste from those systems. As a result, they play an important role in streamlining the use of time, materials, machinery and employees to generate the most value for their companies.
DOE Report: the Path to Alternative Aviation Fuels
The assessment is based upon findings from recent peer-reviewed studies, scientific working groups and stakeholder input provided during a September 2016 workshop.
ABM Drives: Custom, Continuous-Duty Motors and Drives
Comprehensive standard continuous-duty motors and drive product platform and flexible modular systems allow for cost-effective, low-volume production runs.
Molecular "Treasure Maps" to Help Discover New Materials
Scientists at the University of Southampton, working with colleagues at the University of Liverpool, have developed a new method that has the potential to revolutionize the way we search for, design and produce new materials.
Flexible Electronic Devices with Roll-to-Roll Overmolding Technology
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has, for the first time, performed all manufacturing stages for a flexible in-molded LED foil with a roll-to-roll process.
Keep Your Tilt Pad Bearings Running Cool
Waukesha Bearing has developed a new cooling technology for tilt pad bearings called trailing edge cooling, which increases heat transfer and expands bearing operating limits.
A Big Leap Toward Tinier Lines
For the last few decades, microchip manufacturers have been on a quest to find ways to make the patterns of wires and components in their microchips ever smaller, in order to fit more of them onto a single chip and thus continue the relentless progress toward faster and more powerful computers.
Researchers Create Artificial Materials, Atom-by-Atom
Researchers at Aalto University have manufactured artificial materials with engineered electronic properties.
HALT and HASS Pushes the Boundaries to Make Products More Reliable
Highly accelerated life testing (HALT) and highly accelerated stress screening (HASS) remain some of the best solutions for ensuring the reputation of a company and its products by finding potential product failures.
How ball bearings are manufactured
How are ball bearings made, and how do they get the balls so round? The answer is a multi-step manufacturing process involving machining, heat treating, grinding, honing, lapping and assembly.
Corona Detection Goes 21st Century High Tech
High Definition and Layered Views Contribute to a New Zenith in Hand Held Corona Detection
Valve Solutions for Pharma and Biotech
Introduction of a new family of valves enables Festo to offer seamless automation from control cabinet to pipe for biotech/pharma utility processes.
The First On-site House Has Been Printed in Russia
3D-printing firm Apis Cor in Russia showed off the portable 3-D printer that it has developed by building a small home.
What Can You Do with a Mechanical Engineering Degree?
Curious, creative engineers often gravitate toward mechanical engineering because they want to apply their math skills to solving problems and figuring out how things work
Red Lion Announces Highly Scalable Graphite Edge Controller for Extreme Environments
Red Lion Controls announced the new Graphite® Edge Controller, a compact rugged industrial controller offering highly scalable I/O and combining networking and data visualization with industry standard IEC 61131 control capabilities in a small, easy-to-deploy footprint.
“Lab-on-a-Glove” Could Bring Nerve Agent Detection to a Wearer’s Fingertips
Researchers have developed a fast way to detect the presence of dangerous compounds in the field using a disposable "lab-on-a-glove."
Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring
An international team of researchers, led by the University of Delaware's Saleem Ali, says global resource governance and sharing of geoscience data is needed to address challenges facing future mineral supply.
MES Rises as Automakers Embrace Flexibility
Henry Ford might be gobsmacked at how today’s production lines are more about customization than standardization. Supporting that evolution are software tools known as manufacturing execution systems. These tools provide real-time data for analysis, and also help to make the line’s flexibility possible.
Water Conservation Campaign Wins Award for Intel
A new water recycling project will have potential to recycle over a billion gallons of water annually at the company’s Hillsboro, OR, campus.
Engineering Team Develops Nanofiber Solution for Clean, Fresh Air
A research team from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has successfully concocted a novel nanofiber solution that creates thin, see-through air filters that can remove up to 90 percent of PM2.5 particles and achieve high air flow of 2.5 times better than conventional air filters.