Category: Features

Industrial robots are bringing surprising new benefits, as well as challenges, to American manufacturers.

A Los Angeles-based metal polisher discusses the intricacies of his trade.

A Silicon Valley machine shop specializes in ultra-high tolerance precision CNC milling and turning services.

The NIST’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership continues to help companies make the most of their opportunities in a changing industrial landscape.

A flexible, modular robotic work cell conducts high-throughput testing of part properties. Meanwhile, a newly engineered alloy is believed to be the most wear-resistant metal in the world.

Electroplating and hard-coat anodizing are among the processes highlighted.

A New York-based startup works at the intersection of multiple leading-edge technologies.

Soft, multi-functional robots are getting super small, and a new 3D printing technique enables faster, better physical models of patient-specific medical data.

Mechanical engineering researchers at MIT are using AI and machine learning technologies to enhance the products we use in everyday life.

Those strengths are crucial as they contend with rising materials costs and ever-tightening tolerances.

How companies are doing depends largely on how well their customers are doing. That’s good news for suppliers to industries like medical, aerospace, and electronics.

Knowing that customers’ designs can change fast, a metal fabrication company invests in flexible manufacturing processes that can change quickly, too.