Manufacturing Engineering

As manufacturing technologies advance at a fast pace, it has become more and more difficult for companies to...

Robert H. Peterson Co. (City of Industry, CA) has produced premium-quality Fire Magic gas grills and Real-Fyre gas...

From a failed business to a rousing success, entrepreneur Fred Schule has learned his lessons well, albeit the...

A sample of the resources featured on www.sme.org/store to learn and train others in the methods of staying...

HEADNOTE Document your process and make problems visible IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 1 Taiichi Ohno is often quoted as declaring:...

HEADNOTE Laser welding creates clean, sealed joints for ever-shrinking medical devices IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 1 This watch-sized cardioverter-defibrillator is...

Versatile Fiber Laser Welding Head The increasing popularity of fiber lasers has created many first-time users incorporating laser...

HEADNOTE While lasers are a proven tool for flat, 2-D cutting, advancing into the third dimension is a...

HEADNOTE Marriage of abrasive waterjet and wire EDM maximizes shop production IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 1 In applications requiring large...

HEADNOTE With the array of choices available to measure critical dimensions, noncontact measurement techniques from vision to high-tech...

HEADNOTE Workholding with magnets, vacuum, and glue IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 1 Workholding adhesive from Mitee-Bite was used to help...

From NASCAR to the operating room, metal components used in many industries require precise, permanent markings that...

There are many reasons why manufacturers continue to chase machining solutions for the smallest parts. The biomedical...

HEADNOTE Body-part replacement challenges manufacturing engineers and designers IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 1 Wheelchairs have been designed specifically to meet...

What began as a suggestion to Mike Langlois to open a shop to make airplane parts by a...

For more than 60 years, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, NM) has served the safety and security...

During a project designated Automated Weld Quality Inspection Systems, which is now under way at the Applied Machine...

The optional, patent-pending V-Change (VC) quickchange jaw system from Forkhardt (Troy, MI) permits top-jaw changeover in 5-10 sec...

Built by Accu-Router Inc. (Morrison, TN) for a corporate business jet manufacturer, this machine incorporates a 60 ×...

Car components with doubled mechanical strength, higher fatigue resistance, and improved energy absorption are produced by a heat-treatment...