Over the past few years, scientists across the country have been revolutionizing the future of fuel. Biofuels researchers from the Department Energy’s National Laboratories and its partners have achieved some significant milestones, and there’s a...
In February 2012, Sky Cylinder Testing (skycylinder.com) in Evansville, Indiana began its Continuous Improvement journey, explains Jonda Vance, with Scott Elliott & Erich Pfafflin.
While traditional cylinder delivery remains a large portion of our business, we’ve seen a lot of customers buying into microbulk and even bulk gas systems for lower costs, an uninterrupted supply of product and on-site...
The Industrial Gas industry has seen tre- mendous growth over the past century fueled by the development of industry in emerging countries.
Additive manufacturing is transforming manufacturing as we know it, dramatically speeding up the process from initial design to manufactured piece. Parts that used to take weeks to create are now being created in just days.
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) (spacex.com) designs, manufactures, and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk to revolutionize space transportation, with the ultimate goal of...
While not quite as dramatic as Hollywood movies such as “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines” or “I, Robot,” make no mistake that the robot age is coming and it’s coming fast — especially in...
Rethink Robotics, Inc. (rethinkrobotics.com), based in Boston, Massachusetts, helps manufacturers meet the challenges of an agile economy with an integrated workforce, combining trainable, safe, and cost-effective robots with skilled labor.
Lean manufacturing (or “Muda”), what is sometimes called making obvious what matters by eliminating everything else, has been an important emphasis for all manufacturing firms for years.
In the lexicon of business and manufacturing, there is a piece of wisdom that has found itself on the lips of so many doers and thinkers.
