Engineering and Technical Services Reference Materials
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Engineering Support Hits -and Passes- a New Milestone
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: More and more often we are hearing from customers that the responsiveness and support provided by our engineering team is head and shoulders above most others in the industry. To be honest, we never ...
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The Human Brain Project
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: A couple of weeks back, I saw an article on a very interesting topic over on EE Times. Like a Manhattan Project, resources are coming together for the big push to simulate the human brain. Personnel ...
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It's Official: Critical Link is ISO 9001:2008 Certified
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: It's official. In late June, we received the official certificate that lets the world know that we're ISO 9001:2008 certified. ...
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Keep on Truckin'
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: Since it's an area where so much interesting embedded technology is being deployed, you may have noticed that we've done our share of transportation related posts - positive train control, driverless ...
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Building a Test Bed for New 5G Technology Using NI Software Defined Radio
From: National InstrumentsDescription: We aimed to develop wireless communication technology that could remarkably reduce the latency caused by a series of communication-related processes while multiple mobile phones, also called user ...
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The 10% Rule of Preventive Maintenance
From: Allied Reliability GroupDescription: Many organizations use the PM compliance metric as a measurement of their maintenance department's performance. This metric is often viewed by professionals as a joke because if your PM compliance is ...
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Test Automation and Remote Control using APIs
From: GL Communications, Inc.Description: Welcome to another November 2018 issue of GL Communications' Newsletter providing information and insight into new API's support in GL's Test platforms for advanced and comprehensive testing over TDM, ...
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Google's Modular Smartphone
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: For those of us who like gadgets, like to tinker, and like the idea of smartphones getting even smarter, there's good news: Google is continuing to work on the Ara, a modular smartphone. ...
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The 4 Biggest Benefits to Working with a SOM Developer
From: Logic PDDescription: OEMs' new product developers may face the crucial decision of whether to source system-on-modules "off the shelf" through a distributor, or through a direct relationship with a SOM developer. Here are ...
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Best Practices for Designing for Bevel
From: SigmaTEK Systems, LLCDescription: For many employing nesting software, the process to produce a quality beveled part evolves from days or even weeks of trial and error. ...
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Embedded Milestones for 2013 - theirs and ours
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: While looking back on 2013, I found an interesting article on embedded.com in which Jack Gaussle gave his take on "The Most Important Milestones in Embedded in 2013". Here's the list (with a bit of ...
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In the News : New US Ozone Standard Takes Effect
From: Environics, Inc.Description: On October 1, 2017, a new ozone standard took effect in the US amid widely differing opinions. ...
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A systems engineering approach to embedded development
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: One of the main benefits our customers derive from embedding a Critical Link System on Module (SoM) in their application is speeding up time to market. We've been told by some of you that the ...
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DoorBot drops into the Shark Tank
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: Don't know if you're a fan of Shark Tank, but I am. For those who aren't familiar with it, Shark Tank is yet another one of those addictive reality shows - but without the dumb down. ...
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When the Information Superhighway was new
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: A couple of days ago, I came across an article on Gizmodo that includes a link to a Computer Chronicles episode from 1995 in which Stewart Cheifet explores the then-mysterious Information ...
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Update on the Altera-Based Mity
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: Anyway, we are very pleased to announce that the SoM is up and running, the baseboard is in and up, and we've been through basic hardware bring up and checkout on both boards (to varying degrees ...
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Working with your PCB Manufacturer
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: One of the principal reasons that developers choose to embed a Critical Link System-on-Module in their applications is to reduce their risk. A big part of that risk is what happens when a board moves ...
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Customer Spotlight: Mayville Engineering Company
From: SigmaTEK Systems, LLCDescription: With SigmaNEST they can automate the process, but they can also jump in and modify things at any part of the workflow. ...
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Creating Advanced Handover Testing Platforms Using Low Cost Programmable Devices
Description: Digital attenuators are a critical part of mobile network test platforms where flexibility in controlling signal strength is vital. Multipath fading is a commonly occurring problem with obstacles, ...
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Insights on Evolving 5G MIMO Networks and Test Methods
Description: It's well understood that the technologies that will be used to usher in next-generation 5G wireless networks will be revolutionary. But before there is widespread adoption of any of these 5G ...
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Model-Based Development of Multi-Disciplinary Systems
From: Altair Engineering IncDescription: In the early days, multi-disciplinary systems, such as products involving mechatronics, were developed according to the slogan "Build it, Paint it, Add Controls!" That is, the product-development ...
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Screening for RoHS Substances with XRF
From: Olympus America, Inc.Description: Dillon McDowell, Applications Scientist at Olympus Scientific Solutions Americas, talks to Stuart Milne at AZoM about XRF as an effective screening tool for RoHS substances. ...
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Protecting Industrial Control Systems from Advancing Cyber Threats
From: CSA GroupDescription: As the industrial and manufacturing sectors continue the shift from centralized to decentralized operations, the world of production as we know it will change completely. This new era, commonly ...
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Case Study: Alternative Solution to Die-cast Process
Description: See how Vollrath Manufacturing Services helped a client develop a better way to produce one of their most important components. ...
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Oversampling Converters
Description: The objective is to provide a digitizer that does most of its work in the digital domain. Why: *Digital calculations are absolutely repeatable. *We can make a "better" filter there. *It is a whole ...
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3 Ways in Which the Industrial Environment Is Tackling the IoT Revolution
Description: Internet of Things (IoT), simply put, is a network of smart devices that are connected to the internet and are capable of sharing information and data with one another. On a more complex level, IoT ...
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A Value-Based Approach to Fostering Customer Loyalty
From: Logic PDDescription: How does a medical device OEM attract and retain customers in what has become a multifaceted and evolving environment? Understanding their customers and what drives loyalty should be at the heart of ...
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Shock Trials: Mide Appears in Sea Power Article
Description: Explosive shock testing verifies ship survivability assumptions of modeling and simulation in an article appearing in Sea Power magazine. ...
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Full-service package for London's sewage system
From: SEEPEX Inc.Description: Thames Water operates one of the UK's largest wastewater treatment plants in West London, which treats sewage for around 2.1 million residents. A plant of this size requires both pumps and service ...
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The Insecurity of Things: Why You Are Your Own Worst Enemy
From: Logic PDDescription: Data breaches and cyberattacks are more than just a security problem. A data breach can have long-term and detrimental effects to your business in terms of shareholder confidence and corporate ...
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Building a Bird Feeder with Legos: Systems Engineering in the Real World
From: Logic PDDescription: Connected product development gets more complex every day. Logic PD explains how systems-level approaches can help make sense of a complicated process. ...
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Sinter-Brazed Planetary Carrier Case Study
Description: This lightweight PM component--composed of a guide plate and spider--is the first sinter brazed powder metal planetary carrier in a ZF automatic transmission. ...
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Applying Learning Cycles to Complex System Development
From: Logic PDDescription: Complex system development is inherently challenging. Logic PD explains how to keep engineering projects on course by instituting learning cycles and short-term goals. ...
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Re-Thinking Value Creation in Next-Gen IoT Devices
From: Logic PDDescription: How can you design better user experiences on IoT-enabled devices? What's missing is a deeper understanding of different types of the value created by IoT-enabled products. ...
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An Energized Control Room
Description: Brussels Energy is a public private partnership between the Regional Brussels-Cleanliness Agency and SITA. The site, located on the Quai Leon Monnyer 8 in Brussels, incinerates household waste which ...
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City Of Bloomington Improves Its View Of Water Treatment Operations
Description: The City of Bloomington, Minnesota covers 38 square miles in the heart of the Twin Cities and is home to more than 85,000 residents. Water service for this bustling metropolitan community, which also ...
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Connexus Energy Discovers The Ergonomic Benefits Of Sit/Stand Consoles
Description: Connexus Energy is the largest electric distribution cooperative in Minnesota, serving about 126,000 members in a seven-county service territory north of the Twin Cities. Recently, the cooperative ...
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Creative Console Design Over Comes Space Limitations For Statue Of Liberty Command Center Overhaul
Description: After the devastation following Hurricane Sandy, visitors seeking to tour New York City's iconic Statue of Liberty were forced to find alternative tourist destinations. In the aftermath of one of the ...
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Custom Consoles Give Creative Function To Scottsdale TMC
Description: Scottsdale, Ariz. hosts numerous high-profile events throughout the year, including the renowned golf tournament, the Waste Management Open as well as the Barrett-Jackson Classic Car Auction and the ...
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Delta Airlines Upgrades Ground Control Center In Minneapolis
Description: Each year more than 30 million travelers pass through Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP). Most are there to fly Delta Air Lines, the airport's largest carrier. On peak days, Delta has ...
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FBI's Minneapolis Division Sets Its Sights On The Future In New Field Office
Description: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) operates 56 field offices in major metropolitan areas throughout the United Sates and Puerto Rico. The heart of the bureau's investigative and intelligence ...
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Georgia System Operations Corporation Takes Control
Description: Georgia System Operations Corporation (GSOC) controls and monitors electric generation, transmission and distribution assets for one of the largest electric cooperatives in North America. An ...
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Great River Energy Upgrades Consoles To Improve Ergonomics
Description: Great River Energy is a not-for-profit electric cooperative, which generates and transmits power for 28 member cooperatives throughout central and northern Minnesota. With a generating capacity of ...
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Knowledge Is Power(ful): 3 Steps to Transition Your Insights to Action
From: Logic PDDescription: Maximizing the impact of market intelligence throughout the product lifecycle requires effective communication with stakeholders within the development process. ...
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Massachusetts DOT Uprgrades MBTA Control Room
Description: There are plenty of variations on the aphorism, "That's no way to run a railroad!" (The actual source quote is from a 1932 political cartoon in the humor magazine Ballyhoo and is, somewhat ...
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Mystic Lake Surveillance Upgrade
Description: When it became a federally recognized tribe, the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) gained the right of self-determination and self-sufficiency. Most importantly, it gained the right to the ...
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Preparation Delivers Big Payoff For Security At Hollywood Casino
Description: Penn National Gaming's new Hollywood Casino in Lawrenceburg, Indiana is the largest riverboat casino in the world. The entire casino - 3,200 electronic games, 88 table games, a World Poker Tour® ...
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Q2 Industrial Security Keeps An Eye On Faps, Inc.
Description: If you've ever purchased a foreign car, chances are pretty good your vehicle arrived on U.S. soil through FAPS, Inc. in Port Newark, New Jersey. FAPS, Inc. (originally, Foreign Auto Preparation ...
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Sedgefield Borough Council
Description: Sedgefield's centrally-based control room facility receives images from over 120 public space CCTV cameras located throughout the borough. Considering the system's requirement for increased monitoring ...
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Teamwork Helps Nike Upgrade Security At World Headquarters
Description: Few would argue that Nike is one of the most image-conscious corporations in the world, after all the Nike Swoosh is one of the most recognized logos anywhere. This carefully polished, fiercely ...
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Winsted Consoles Add Wow Factor To G4S Monitoring & Data Center
Description: You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Which is why, when you're designing a first-of-its-kind security monitoring center for the world's largest security company, appearances ...
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Winsted Consoles Help Keep Traffic Flowing In New Orleans
Description: Commuters in New Orleans and surrounding areas are getting around a little easier these days thanks to a new state-of-the-art transportation management center. The Louisiana Department of ...
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Winsted Consoles Take To The Sea With Baker Hughes
Description: Baker Hughes' new Blue Tarpon™ vessel is one of the largest deepwater fracturing and stimulation vessels of its kind. The 300-foot ship improves completion efficiency by performing multiple well ...
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Winsted Designs Modular Consoles To Aid In Research And Development
Description: The control room is the central nervous system of the nuclear power plant. As aging plants in the United States face licensing renewal and the next generation of plants seek approval, more research ...
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Winsted's Custom Division Helps Hart EMC Deliver Power To Rural Georgia
Description: Nestled in the foothills of North Georgia, Hart Electric Membership Corporation (EMC) provides affordable, reliable energy to approximately 15,000 rural residents in Hart, Stephens, Franklin, Madison, ...
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WM Security Services Overcomes Challenges With New Console System
Description: It's no secret Waste Management is the leading provider of waste reduction, management, collection, disposal, recycling and renewable energy services. The company is North America's largest ...
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When Do SOMs Make Sense for Connected Device Development?
From: Logic PDDescription: Developing a new and innovative device can be a difficult and costly process, especially when that device is connected and potentially a part of a complex and high-tech ecosystem. The resource ...
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Why the Big Picture Matters: The Systems-Level Approach to Product Development
From: Logic PDDescription: In product development, the big picture matters. It's important that engineers and designers tasked with bringing that next great idea to life have a broad systems level understanding of what's being ...
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2016 MASH Standards for Highway Safety Devices
From: Custom-Pak, Inc.Description: Standards for highway safety devices were updated last year by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). They expand upon AASHTO's 2011 Manual for Assessing ...
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Industry 4.0 - What You Really Need to Know:
From: SigmaTEK Systems, LLCDescription: Here are the 4 things you REALLY need to know about Industry 4.0: ...
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How Specifications Can Ruin a Good Project
From: 315 Machine Design LLCDescription: Since August 2014, 315 Machine Design has been providing engineering and project management services for a client on a liquid natural gas (LNG) export facility project. The LNG project's general ...
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5 Tips for Choosing the Right Improvement Project for your Business
Description: We recently attended INFO*FLEX 2016 in Fort Worth, Texas. The show had approximately 2,000 attendees and more than 300 exhibitors all focused on making improvements in the Flexographic Printing ...
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The Design Process: A Follow-up
From: 315 Machine Design LLCDescription: I was recently binge-listening to a new-to-me podcast called The Engineering Commons Podcast. In episode 109, the panel discussed the process of design. In our Utilizing Design Process to Eliminate ...
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AW Mercer and SigmaNEST Success Story
From: SigmaTEK Systems, LLCDescription: Sheet metal nesting at A.W. Mercer (Boyerton, PA) was a growing problem. Because nested parts did not efficiently utilize material, engineers were forced to spend an inordinate amount of time manually ...
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Bartco Lighting and SigmaBEND Success Story
From: SigmaTEK Systems, LLCDescription: Bartco Lighting (Huntington Beach, CA) is a manufacturer of spec-grade linear fluorescent and LED lighting fixtures supplying the world's hospitals, colleges, museums, retail stores, office buildings, ...
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Otis and SigmaTEK Services Success Story
From: SigmaTEK Systems, LLCDescription: SigmaNEST delivers the highest level of automation. Otis wanted "On Demand" functionality allowing files to be created in the MRP; and easily opened in SigmaNEST or SimTRANS. Enhancements were added ...
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Shop Construction Services and SigmaNEST Success Story
From: SigmaTEK Systems, LLCDescription: Nesting and cutting more than 12,000 steel panels for construction of the Barclay's Center was a major concern. A powerful nesting solution was critical to get the full-range of steel plate sizes ...
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Learn About OSHA Noise Regulations
From: Sonic-ShieldDescription: Deciphering OSHA Noise Regulations and understanding what the regulations mean to your business, your neighbors, and your workforce is an important step in being a good corporate citizen. Every year, ...
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Sonic-Shield Soundproofing Made Simple FAQs
From: Sonic-ShieldDescription: Sonic-Shield is asked dozens of questions by our customers every single day. Sound, Noise, Hearing, Acoustics, Soundproofing, Soundproofing products, Soundproofing solutions, Types of Noise and ...
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Sonic-Shield's Three Keys to Understanding Acoustics
From: Sonic-ShieldDescription: Understanding acoustics, specifically indoor acoustics is important for your interaction with a soundproofing company. Three important acoustical concepts must be understood: decibels (dB), Sound ...
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Mathematical Conversions: Area and Volume
From: Backer Hotwatt Inc.Description: Conversions for area and volume. ...
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Mathematical Conversions: Circumference and Circle Area
From: Backer Hotwatt Inc.Description: Table for converting diameter to circumference and area. ...
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Mathematical Conversions: Inches to Millimeter
From: Backer Hotwatt Inc.Description: Inches to millimeter conversion table. ...
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Ohm's Law and Wiring Diagrams
From: Backer Hotwatt Inc.Description: Diagrams, graphs, and formulas related to Ohm's law and wiring. ...
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Resistance Wire - Current vs. Temperature
From: Backer Hotwatt Inc.Description: Current carrying capacity tables for various wires. ...
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Stainless Steel Pipe Sizes/American Standard Taper Pipe Threads
From: Backer Hotwatt Inc.Description: Pipe size and thread tables. ...
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Wire Gauge Size Equivalents
From: Backer Hotwatt Inc.Description: Wire gauge size tables. ...
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5 Things I Learned: While Working on The Mobile Class 1 Laser Marking System
From: 315 Machine Design LLCDescription: The funny thing is, I didn't go looking for, nor promote that I was capable of, designing products for laser marking systems. Originally, I had contacted Global Controls with respect to another ...
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Phase 1: Idea Discovery - There's a Good Idea in There Somewhere!
From: 315 Machine Design LLCDescription: In Utilizing Design Process to Eliminate Waste and Create Custom Machinery, we began exploring the concept of using an idea-to-launch (I2L) process for developing custom equipment to reduce or ...
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Phase 2: Business Case Building - Setting the Criteria for Success
From: 315 Machine Design LLCDescription: In There's a Good Idea in There Somewhere!, we explored the concept of idea discovery and generation as the first phase of the idea-to-launch (I2L) process for developing custom equipment that reduces ...
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Phase 3: Development - The Run to the End
From: 315 Machine Design LLCDescription: In There's a Good Idea in There Somewhere! and Setting the Criteria for Success we discussed creating multiple custom machine ideas for reducing or eliminating ‘blind waste’ through ideation ...
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Phase 4: Test and Validate - The Run to the End: Part 2
From: 315 Machine Design LLCDescription: No matter which Idea-to-Launch process you use, or even if you employ the continuous refinement cycle discussed in Setting the Criteria for Success and The Run to the End, you must test the product of ...
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Phase 5: Installation (Launch) - The End
From: 315 Machine Design LLCDescription: You have worked really hard on your project up to this point. You have gathered all of the pertinent information regarding the machine that will help reduce or eliminate "blind" waste. You have ...
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Phase 6: Evaluate - A Look Back to Move Forward
From: 315 Machine Design LLCDescription: In The End, or as Close to the End as You Can Get, the machine that was developed using your project's chosen new product development (NPD) method was installed and started up. Everything is compared ...
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Utilizing Design Process to Eliminate Waste and Create Custom Machinery
From: 315 Machine Design LLCDescription: By now most CEOs, CFOs, and manufacturing executives have heard of 5S, Six Sigma, lean manufacturing and the mnemonics TIMWOOD and WORMPIT. Why are they important? It’s something that adds ...
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5 Things I Learned: While Designing Machines with Extruded Framing Systems
From: 315 Machine Design LLCDescription: You may have heard of extruded aluminum framing. Some call it t-slot or t-slotted framing. Others call it extruded framing. No matter what you call it, using the framing members and accessories can be ...
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Radiation Levels in the Pacific Ocean Reach Pre-Fukushima Level
From: Despatch - ITW EAEDescription: It's already been more than five years since an earthquake and tsunami jolted Japan and resulted in a huge leak of radioactive material into the world's oceans. Scientists are regularly monitoring the ...
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Small Device Utilizes UV Rays From Sunlight To Disinfect Water
From: Despatch - ITW EAEDescription: UV rays are capable of beginning to kill bacteria in as little as six hours but the process can sometimes take up to two days. ...
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Galvanic Corrosion
Description: Causes and prevention guide. ...
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The Cost of Downtime
Description: A helpful infographic on the cost of downtime. ...
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Emissions Legislations Likely to Increase R&D Investments
Description: We live in interesting times! The VW scandal has resulted in a renewed push by many leaders I know to emphasize company values and the importance of living them relentlessly. It has also brought ...
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Scanning Electron Microscope - Explore the Nanoscopic World
Description: Electron microscopy allows our electronic failure analysts to take incredible images of a huge variety of defects. From melted silicon to cracked metallization and all points between, the electron ...
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Military and Commercial Specifications and Standards
From: E-Labs, Inc.Description: Military and commercial specifications and standards ...
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The Benefits of Early Supplier Engagement
Description: As many organizations face increasing competition, the pressure to introduce innovative customer solutions also increases. This pressure creates an urgency to accelerate technical development, shorten ...
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Are Solar Roads The Way Of The Future?
From: Elasto Proxy Inc.Description: How strong are solar panels? Would you stand on one and jump up and down? Would you park your car atop a solar array, or drive across photovoltaic cells at a high rate of speed? The exposed surfaces ...
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EADS: Scanning metallic tooling and carbon fiber composite parts with the Handyscan 3D
From: Creaform Inc.Description: EADS (European Aeronautic Defense and Space company) is a worldwide leader in aerospace, defense, and associated services. The company has been using Creaform portable 3D measurement products for ...
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Long-established Company Atlas Weyhausen Chooses Creaform
From: Creaform Inc.Description: As well as being innovative in developing and building its wheel loaders, the long-established company Atlas Weyhausen GmbH is also innovative in its quality assurance: Since the start of 2011, the ...
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The ENVSN and Creaform sail toward Rio 2016!
From: Creaform Inc.Description: Creaform has been offering 3D engineering services globally for over 10 years. Weâ ve acquired a strong expertise in inspection, 3D scanning, reverse engineering, mechanical engineering, and design as ...
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10 Things a Lubrication Technician Can Do Today To Improve Reliability
From: Allied Reliability GroupDescription: Doug Plucknette explains that for whatever reason, the task of lubricating equipment in most companies has been traditionally viewed as menial but necessary and delegated to low skill level employees ...
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Pairing GD&T with Industrial CT Helps with Moldmakers Part to Print Projects
From: JG&A Metrology CenterDescription: Industrial CT scanning has become an integral part in GD&T and how the internal measurement of complex component parts should be facilitated.GD&T through Industrial CT When it comes to GD&T, measuring ...