Author Archives: Nicole Hemsoth
Nicole Hemsoth
Digital Manufacturing: Why There’s Never Been a Better Time
June 20th, 2011
The past several decades have seen the continued outsourcing of manufacturing to overseas outfits. Increased competition, both globally and at home, is leading US manufacturers to seek out all available avenues to cut costs and boost efficiency. With the ...
Event Highlights the Benefits of Manufacturing Software
June 16th, 2011
Manufacturers flock to Rhode Island to learn how software can reduce product costs and speed time to market.
Museum Displays Robotic Building System
June 15th, 2011
A bright-orange robotic arm creates furniture out of small metal cubes at Atlanta's High Museum.
The Invisible Innovators: What Is the Missing Middle? And Why Do We Need Them?
June 15th, 2011
The manufacturing market is held together by a vitally-important yet often ignored segment, known as the "Missing Middle." The term refers to the roughly 300,000 manufacturers in the US (two million globally) that employ fewer than 500 people. Economically, ...
Make Your Own Stuff: RepRap and the Home 3D Printer
June 14th, 2011
Low cost, desktop 3D printers that use plastics and other materials to print just about anything you want are making their way into the home.
Making Digital Manufacturing Affordable: A Vendor Perspective
June 14th, 2011
A new breed of GPU-based workstations have the potential to make advanced computing resources available to small- to medium-sized manufacturers — especially the "missing middle" who are not yet making full use of this technology. NVIDIA's Sumit Gupta lends ...
Altair Rep Talks Up Computer-Aided Engineering
June 13th, 2011
Modeling and simulation solutions make inroads into all levels of the design process.
Simulation Software Lifts Prop-Plane Manufacturing
June 10th, 2011
Propeller airplanes return to the skies as manufacturers adopt digital manufacturing.
Dana Holding Corporation: Optimizing Products and Processes with HPC
June 9th, 2011
When Frank Popielas talks about the "sweet spot," he's not referring to his tennis game. He's talking about the most efficient and cost effective way to use high performance computing (HPC) to accurately simulate the design of a specific ...
The Future Is Not Made, It Is Manufactured
June 9th, 2011
Manufacturing hasn't been proven to sustain the US economy. It has been proven to sustain every economy in the history of civilization. No matter what else you do, you must build things. Those societies that abandon this central ideology ...
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