Cavity Pressure Selection Options and Solutions
"When I worked in our customer support department, we started with a simple question: What problem are you trying to solve? Is it short shots? Flash? Dimensions? You want to put a transducer where the problem is, plain and simple. For most of you that is going to be the last place to fill or what we commonly refer to as the end of cavity. The majority of quality defects can be correlated to the pressure at this location. Too much pressure and the parts get bigger, not enough pressure and the parts get smaller. All in all, a pretty straightforward correlation.
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Hands-Free Outsourcing Makes Its Debut
From Bluetooth to Wii to pilotless drones, "hands-free" operation is the wave of the future. Can management of the disaggregated supply chain also become hands-free for original equipment manufacturers?
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Take Control of Visibility into Your Supply Chain
Visibility. Of course that’s what you want. We all want it. After all, how can you run a supply chain without it? Changes in demand, late shipments, quality issues, point of sale, weather patterns, production schedules and projected inventory positions are just some of the myriad of things you want to be able to see so you can make better and more informed decisions as a supply chain executive.
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Ethernet Cable Market to Reach $1 Billion by 2022
Global Ethernet Cable Market is estimated to reach $1 billion by 2022, anticipated to grow at a CAGR of 14.3% amid during forecast period 2014 - 2022, according to new research published by Allied Market Research. Asia-Pacific dominated the market, contributing more than 35% share of the overall market revenue, followed by Europe. The demand for high-speed internet and rise in data center installation activities, primarily in the industrial sector, have fueled the market growth.
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China Has Launched the World’s First All-Electric Cargo Ship
The first ever all-electric cargo ship is in operation in China's Pearl River. While it's a step in the right direction to eliminate fossil fuels, the ship is being used to carry coal — the very material that encouraged the shift to clean energy.
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UAVs Deliver Cell Service During Disasters
A researcher at the University of North Texas has successfully demonstrated a drone capable of supplementing cellular service during large-scale disasters and catastrophes. When Hurricane Katrina struck Louisiana in 2005, cell towers fell, hampering rescue and response efforts.
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4 Steps to Improving PCB Design Throughput
For young and mature mature designers alike, I’d like to offer a word to the wise: Talk to your board house before you start on the new design. We spend a lot of time helping designers to bring their pride and joy to a state of manufacturability after the fact. It would always be much better to have had a chance to avoid the mess rather than to clean it up.
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4 Tips for Picking the Right Outsourcing Partner
Today, doing business is like a Formula One race -- it's all about teamwork and collaboration. Drivers Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton don't win races on their own. They rely on the backing of their racing teams and on the power of their cars' engines (Red Bull Racing / Renault and McLaren Racing / Mercedes-Benz, respectively).
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How Industry 4.0 Is Changing Manufacturing
Advances in connectivity are at the heart of Industry 4.0, with wide-ranging benefits for the way businesses are run. For manufacturing, one of the most important areas is asset management, in particular, how to create efficiencies and provide insight into the whole production chain.
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Lean Leadership Summit Focuses on Essentials to Becoming a Lean Company
This year’s summit was different in that the Lean Accounting Summit was combined with Lean Management and Lean People Development into Lean Leadership to include the people development aspect of being a lean enterprise. Co-founder Dwayne Butcher, said, “It’s about time that the whole enterprise be involved in becoming a lean company.
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Where The Jobs Are: The Fastest Growing Sectors for Manufacturing
The manufacturing sector has shown some growth over the past few years. Since 2011, the sector has created jobs every year, a 6-year expansion that exceeds the 5-year expansion experienced 1994-1998, according to a new report from consulting firm Headlight Data. The report showed that the industry has created nearly 500,000 new jobs in the last 6 years.
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Stanford Researchers Build Earthquake Observatory With Optical Fibers
Thousands of miles of buried optical fibers crisscross California’s San Francisco Bay Area delivering high-speed internet and HD video to homes and businesses. Biondo Biondi, a professor of geophysics at Stanford University’s School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, dreams of turning that dense network into an inexpensive “billion sensors” observatory for continuously monitoring and studying earthquakes.
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CNC Machining - Quickly and Quietly Transforming Production
The manufacturing industry is currently undergoing a digital transformation, in which new business models are being engineered to improve time to market as a means of meeting customer demand for more instant services and products.
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An Overlooked Way Manufacturers Can Address Talent and Innovation Challenges
Almost every manufacturing executive I know says that today’s rapidly changing landscape is putting pressure on their business. Finding and keeping good people, increasing efficiency and speed to market, gaining a competitive advantage through innovation … these are not new concerns, and yet, they feel more challenging than ever.
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Flexible Wearables to Rival the Rigid
Flexible, wearable devices that can be used to monitor your health or your environment are increasing in popularity – yet they can’t beat the performance and efficiency of traditional rigid devices, which have a superior ability to convert body heat into usable energy.
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Making Vehicles May Prove Easier Than Selling Services
CAR companies have long talked a good game when it comes to harnessing technology that threatens to undermine the business of making and selling vehicles. In the 1990s, as the dotcom boom was in full swing, Jac Nasser, then boss of Ford, said that the new business models the internet would enable meant that his firm would outsource the dull task of assembling cars and reinvent itself as a mobility company, selling transport as a service. Mr Nasser was too early with this insight. Only now are most big carmakers teaming up with tech firms that offer transport services, on the road to becoming mobility providers. But they in turn may have left it too late.
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Is This the Real Life? Is This Just Fantasy? AR Hits Manufacturing
More than a century and a quarter later, NNS is on the front lines of manufacturers implementing augmented reality into any number of processes. The nautical leader, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, started to explore AR in 2007 and introduced the burgeoning technology to its shipyard in 2011 as part of a larger digital effort, according to engineering manager Patrick Ryan.
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This is the Fastest Internet on the Earth
Futurism gives us a really cool visual infographics about what the current technology is for data transfer and internet. Is this what our "future" looks like? Can't wait to be able to download and transfer files at that speed!
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IBM Announces Record Breaking New Data Storage Device
In partnership with Sony Storage Media Solutions, IBM has broken its previous record for the world’s densest tape drive, announcing a product capable of storing 330 terabytes of uncompressed data. That’s more storage than the world’s biggest hard drives, capable of holding about 330 million books. The tape drive’s cartridge could fit into the palm of a person’s hand.IBM and Sony's successful development of a magnetic tape storage cartridge that can store more than 300+ terabytes of data is sure to make some huge ripples in the data storage industry, even the cloud platforms! Thanks Futurism for this update!
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Microsoft and Facebook's 4,000 Mile Long Subsea Cable Has Been Completed
Work on Marea, a high-capacity subsea cable spanning the 6,437 kilometers (4,000 miles) between Bilbao, Spain, and Virginia Beach, Virginia, has been completed. Microsoft and Facebook collaborated on the development, design, and implementation of the cable, while a third partner, global communication infrastructure specialist Telxius, was responsible for its construction and will take care of maintenance.
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