Being a Great Designer is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
You are a great designer. You have innate gifts with 3D and spatial relations and are a creative, original thinker. You have studied and mastered mechanical principles and fundamentals. Through industry experience, you’ve learned about manufacturing processes, rules of thumb and tools and tricks of the trade. You are an interesting “T-shaped” person pulling from a […]
NASA GRANTS MILLIONS TO 3D PRINTING PROJECTS HELPING 2024 MOON LANDING
American space agency NASA has just secured funding for approximately 18 early-stage 3D printing projects developing technologies to help on its next mission to the Moon. As part of the agency’s 2019 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) seed programs, the projects are among 363 proposals that have collectively received over $43 million from NASA for […]
Atom Power Is Launching the Era of Digital Circuit Breakers
New digital circuit breakers that combine computing power with wireless connectivity may finally replace an 140-year-old electromechanical technology By Prachi Patel Photo: Atom PowerCircuit breakers have been mechanical switches for 140 years. Now Atom Power is launching the first UL safety-certified digital circuit breaker panel combined with smart software and connectivity that could help monitor and […]
The Reputational Risks That CEOs are Most Worried About
BUSINESS Published 8 hours agoon May 13, 2019 By Jeff Desjardins Tweet Share Share Reddit Email View a high resolution version of this graphic The Reputational Risks That CEOs are Most Worried About View the full-size version of the infographic by clicking here Building an enduring business isn’t easy work. It can take decades to earn trust and […]
The Most Hyped Technology of Every Year From 2000-2018
Visualizing Technology Hype Cycles (2000-2018) Nothing captures our collective imagination quite like emerging technology. In a short amount of time, technological innovations such as wireless internet and social networking have become a ubiquitous part of our everyday lives, quietly transforming the way we live, work, and communicate. Other promising technologies have their moment in the […]
What is digital transformation in manufacturing?
Ran across this article on MIT Sloan Management Review written by Vijay Govindarajan and Jeffrey R. Immelt It includes one of the better descriptions I have run across for digital transformation for manufacturers: “A digital transformation entails reimagining products and services as digitally enabled assets; generating new value from the interconnection of physical and digital assets […]