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The Irving Effect and the "Innovative Manufacturer"

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Vienna_Beef.jpg" alt="" width="96" height="64" />The Pony Express closed two days after transcontinental telegraph lines arrived in Salt Lake City. Less dramatic but equally alarming to those ...Full Article

President Obama to Host ‘Insourcing American Jobs’ Forum

During his weekly address last Saturday, the President announced that he will be hosting an "Insourcing American Jobs" forum at the White House on Wednesday to hear from business ...Full Article

Award Winning Modernization of Metal Electroplating Technology Could Save DoD Millions

By adopting a "less is more" approach, a team led by the National Center for Manufacturing Science (NCMS) was able to solve a problem in electroplating that has been ...Full Article

Vision with Action: A Report from the NCMS DM SIG meeting

The NCMS Digital Manufacturing Strategic Interest Group (DM SIG) moves toward a common goal of implementing strategies to advance digital manufacturing in the U.S.Full Article

Bringing Big Tools to the Little Guys

Jon Riley, National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, addresses the plight of the missing middle at SC11. "We call them the missing middle because they basically are in the Valley ...Full Article

Digital Manufacturing Report Card: Who’s Finding the Missing Middle?

Numerous initiatives from government and industry have been created to address the "Missing Middle" — small manufacturers who have not adopted the digital manufacturing techniques of computer-aided modeling and ...Full Article

The New ‘King of Cool’ in Manufacturing

Recognizing their competitive value, "Big Industry" has always pioneered the development and use of analytical tools. The key word, though, is "big." Unfortunately, the advantages of analysis tools such ...Full Article

Innovation in the Digital Age

Not long ago the subject of innovation in manufacturing was considered a bit of an oxymoron to many leaders in business and government as they chose not to invest ...Full Article

The Power of Babble

When engineers talk about extrusion and tet meshing and FEA and so on, they're not trying to be pretentious — they're just speaking the language of engineering.Full Article

Vision with Action – A Peek into the NCMS DM SIG Meeting

A Strategic Interest Group, or SIG, is a group of like-minded individuals and organizations with a common goal. Recently the Digital Manufacturing Strategic Interest Group (DM SIG) formed with ...Full Article