As additive manufacturing becomes more important to our business, we realized that we must continually improve our capabilities and drive improvements in the manufacturing part of the operation. The Design Department Perspective When designing new products, one of the greatest assets an engineer can utilize in the design process is a 3D printer to produce […]
Our automation group here at Northern Lights Solutions, has designed and built dozens of machines over the years controlled by PLC’s that record data, display information and make decisions about the quality of the products that have been manufactured. The machine we are working on now is different. This machine will be connected to the […]
Northern Lights Solutions is excited to announce that we have been contracted by Jumbo Home Deco’s Shanghai Factory on a new project. Northern Lights Solutions major clients include not only US companies but global corporations across industries. We address challenges our clients face and solve issues by providing expert analysis and functional engineering and scientific […]
I saw a lot of excitement over a new article from MIT professors Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo about robots stealing jobs and decided to download the original article and evaluate it for myself. I found the actual paper scarier than just the headline being published by news sites. The science is based on robot […]
NLS recently completed a project for Epicenter Development Group, in which our objective was to point out the inefficiencies occurring at a chemical factory. The purpose of the study was to increase company awareness, and by doing so, give the company the opportunity to optimize its operation and the organization as a whole. In order to accomplish this, we conducted a series of downtime […]
Reshoring and Nearshoring of jobs has meet the US has seen a net increase of 10,000 US manufacturing jobs in 2014 according to the Reshoring Initiative. One of the most startling findings shows that in the past five years, almost 25% of manufactures of have reshored at least part of their operations to their home […]