A Partner in Innovation
We wanted to extend a huge congratulations to the winners of the Great Lakes Energy Institute’s Clean Energy Student Competition. Six student teams went up against each other to showcase their innovative designs. Each team was tasked to create a sustainable energy solution with the potential to be integrated into the marketplace. To give you an idea […]
Currently, 85% of the worlds energy is provided by fossil fuels. The problem, however, is that these resources are constantly being depleted with no methods to replace them. If these energy sources continue to be used at their current rates, we will have exhausted all known reservoirs of oil by 2062, coal by 2134, and […]
Here’s the situation: A company produces a product that lasts twice as long as its competitor’s, with some differences in labor and material, but each company produces the same number of units. Is their productivity the same? Well, it depends on how you measure productivity. When comparing the output of countries (rather than companies), it […]
In today’s connected world, it’s become unavoidable for people to constantly stay in communication. In industry, it’s no different. Via machine to machine (M2M) communication and the internet, equipment and processes can be constantly monitored and controlled from anywhere. From machinery in a factory, to construction equipment in the field, to marine craft in the middle […]
We are doing more and more aero simulation work outside traditional transportation type clients. Architectural and Engineering firms have huge opportunities in their MEP (Mechanical Electrical Plumbing) departments in using aero simulation to design more efficient buildings. Computation Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is the modeling of air or fluid as it interacts with surrounding solids and […]
For a design engineer, the ability to use MCAD (mechanical computer aided design) is one of his greatest assets. Using CAD, engineering teams can collaborate to create, edit, view, and share their designs. Traditionally, CAD programs such as SolidWorks, Creo, and Autodesk must be downloaded, configured, and installed in order to operate. Recently, a new CAD […]
Since everything is made out of something, so we thought it a perfect time for a quick discussion about material characteristics. “Inventing is the mixing of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less materials you need.” – Charles Kettering Four Material Characteristics Stiffness/elasticity concerns the lengthening or shortening of a material under loading. […]
As basic things such as raw material, labor, and energy have become more expensive, the cost of manufacturing has naturally risen in response. These costs are expanding faster in some countries than in others; this causes a change in where goods can be manufactured more cheaply. The manufacturing costs rose from 2004 to 2014 in […]
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 […]
A paper just published in Nature by Hansoo Kim from the University of Science and Technology in South Korea demonstrates that by manipulating the structure of steel on a nano-meter scale, you can create a new steel alloy that is stronger and lighter than titanium but at a tenth the cost. It has been a […]