High Performance Coatings Bring Out the Best in Metal Parts

Orion Industries uses robotic equipment to hold tight tolerances on coatings that improve the performance of parts in extreme temperatures and environments. By Mark Langlois Orion Industries is a 60-year-old high-performance coating company that got its start in the...

MIT Announces the Initiative for New Manufacturing

The Institute-wide effort aims to bolster industry and create jobs by driving innovation across vital manufacturing sectors. Peter Dizikes | MIT News MIT [May 27, 2025] launched its Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM), an Institute-wide effort to reinfuse U.S....

From Honeybee Brains and Egyptian Mummies, to Customized Human Implants

How serendipity, medical CT-scanning, and AI deep learning came together to advance the repair of congenital body deformities By Lynn Manning While every human being is unique, our basic anatomy has a common, predictable pattern of bones, muscles, ligaments, tendons,...