Technical Articles
315 Machine Design LLC has published these technical articles:
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In The Future of Manufacturing in the United States, pre-visualization of new products, having a flexible factor floor, and collecting and using factor floor data are just three of many aspects of the...
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Pick up or browse any industrial publication and you can read multitudes of opinions that the United States is on the brink of the next Industrial Revolution. This may all be hyperbole, but since the...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Often machine designers and builders are tasked to develop a work cell that solves a single problem on their customer's manufacturing floor. However, the factory of the future is flexible and uses...