Tooling & Production

1. Hippocratic manufacturing.(first cut)
For a long time, the only medical device I was intimately familiar with was the hypodermic needle. Intimately familiar with and perpetually fearful of. After ...
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2. Boeing comes even closer to getting its 787 airborne.(news & analysis)
Boeing has rolled out the first vertical fin for the company's all-new commercial airplane, the 787 Dreamliner. Manufactured and assembled at the Composite Manufacturing Center ...
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3. Integrated casting line gives Timken an edge.(news & analysis)(Company...
The Timken Company has launched a fully integrated casting operation to produce precision aerospace aftermarket components at the company's new facility in Mesa, AZ, making ...
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4. Georgia Tech, six others study implications of nanotechnology.(news &...
Recent research into the environmental fate of carbon nanotubes has underscored what until now has been a little-discussed aspect of nanotechnology--its potential societal implications. To ...
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5. Tooling reduces costs for auto-parts maker.(news & analysis)
Metaldyne, a leading designer and producer of engine, driveline, and chassis products for the automotive industry, employing more than 7,500 people at 45 facilities in ...
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6. Sitting between a rock and a hard place.(straight talk)
"I don't believe we need to make China an enemy". That's what Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson recently told a television audience. As badly as that ...
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7. Cutting speed: using our favorite constant.(shop talk)
In working with machinists over the years I've noticed that if you stand in front of a machine tool and ask about speed, most people ...
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8. Mitsui Seiki's world revolves around precision, customers.(production...
Inside the conference room of Aikoku Alpha Corporation, senior managing director Masaaki Kanamaru presents his visitors with the company's pedigree as a pioneer in five-axis ...
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9. Pulse electrolytic technology: the Rx for deburring, finishing.(medical...
Each year, U.S. hospitals perform millions of inpatient surgical procedures. In fact, a 2006 study by the Centers for Disease Control's National Center for Health ...
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10. It's all about the results: Paul Prikos, vice president of X-L...
"In medical, it's all about cosmetics," Prikos says. "The look and feel of the part. This is not to say that in other fields the ...
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