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Manufacturers Find On-Shoring Spurs Productivity

As kids in a boisterous playgroup click together the brightly colored interlocking plastic rods and connectors to assemble a toy based on Angry Birds, they may not give much thought to where the pieces...

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Team USA Goes High-Tech in Sochi

The expectations are high for Team USA at this year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The team brought home whopping 37 medals—the most a country has ever won—from the 2010 Vancouver games, and the...

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Will Obama’s New Cybersecurity Plan Protect Us from Hackers?

The U.S. government has released a new set of standards aimed at preventing cyber-attacks on the nation’s critical infrastructures including energy and transport systems, manufacturing, food and...

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Prius Recall – Why Consumers Shouldn’t Be Worried

My Prius was one of 1.9 million vehicles recently recalled in order to fix a software glitch. When I first heard the news, just weeks after Toyota announced another recall of select seat covers, I was...

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Engineering for Snowy Weather

It’s been a brutal winter for those living in the Northeast, Midwest, and the South. With a seemingly never-ending string of snowstorms and polar vortexes hitting week after week, we thought it would...

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Manufacturers Embrace Sustainability, Consumers Less Bothered

Vinyl LP aficionados had a scare when Ikea announced it was discontinuing its popular Expedit wooden shelving units earlier this year. Turns out the shelves are ideal for storing old record...

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Airplane Manufacturers Surge Ahead with 3D Printing

Those who follow developments in the 3D printing world know that aircraft manufacturing is one arena where the technology has really taken off, quite literally. Airbus has been an early adopter of...

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Increased Pay Spells Better Times for Manufacturing Workers

The average salary for manufacturing managers in the United States jumped 7.6 percent last year, according to data from a 2014 IndustryWeek salary survey. The jump is impressive, especially in a year...

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Driverless Cars: Coming, Ready or Not.

Manual roll-down windows to embedded entertainment systems and real-time weather reports. Satellite navigation to predictive traffic support, smart parking, and over-the-air upgrades. Cars have come a...

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New UAV Tech Poses Ethical Questions

Half a decade ago, the United States Air Force developed a 30-year roadmap for the development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), a plan that lays out the future of aircraft from current capabilities...

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Manufacturers Face Tougher Product Regulations

As part of its push for safer consumer products, California has announced tougher regulation around the chemicals that often make their way into children’s sleeping mats, home insulation, and paint...

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3D Printed Organs Become More Complex

More than 121,000 people are waiting for organ transplants, according to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. New advancements in 3D printing (also called “bioprinting”) could change...

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Quirky & GE Unveil Smart AC Unit

We all love summertime. That is, unless we happen to have a classic AC window unit. For those of us who do, it’s all about trying to fit a hundred-pound monstrosity into a window frame clearly not...

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Google’s Driverless Cars Hit the Streets

A future with self-driving cars has been anticipated since Norman Bel Geddes showcased his ‘Futurama’ exhibit at the 1939 New York World’s fair. The display, a miniaturized model of a city prowled by...

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Cat Mini-Excavator is Not a Bull in a China Shop

Caterpillar Inc.’s newest video in the Built For It Trial series takes the popular saying, “like a bull in a china shop,” to a whole other level. The third of the Caterpillar short films, “China Shop”...

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Implantable Med Devices – 3 Smart Technologies to Watch

In the rapidly expanding universe of the Internet of Things, smart medical devices stand out by improving the quality and length of life, as well as efficiency of treatment. Chronic diseases like heart...

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Ukraine Conflict Brings Supply-Chain Woes

Crises, natural or manmade, often put a strain on supply chains, and the current turmoil in Ukraine is a reminder that globalization creates risks as well as opportunities. Natural gas that heats much...

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IoT to Revolutionize Aircraft Industry

What a difference a century makes. When Thomas Edison was tinkering with electric light bulbs, he could have had no idea how fast things would progress technologically. But from those relatively humble...

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White House Expands Sanctions against Conflict Minerals Traders

Legislative efforts to stop the trade of conflict minerals originating from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and surrounding areas has gotten off to a shaky start, and as manufacturers struggle to...

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Saving Lives: Ambulances Get Connected to the IoT

In a medical emergency, the value of time becomes tangible. Minutes can make the difference between life and death; disability and recovery. By lessening the time it takes to diagnose and treat a...

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