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A piece of manufacturing news from Tesla Motors caught our eye, that Elon Musk’s car company plans to die-cast major underbody structures — in effect the chassis — for its …read more Continue reading A Die-Cast Car Subframe, Pushing The Limit Too Far?
Bill Gates-backed startup Antora Energy is preparing to roll out a containerized, modular heat battery, designed to store renewable energy at the lowest possible cost – then release it efficiently as electricity or industrial process heat.Continue Read… Continue reading Ultra-hot carbon batteries promise super-cheap heat and energy storage
Nano-engineering happens all day long in our bodies, and California startup Aether is designing and testing millions of new enzymes to do a range of other useful tasks – like directly extracting battery-grade lithium from sources nobody else can use.Co… Continue reading Aether’s nano-machines: From super-cheap lithium to brand new molecules
Newly-released research reveals the eye-watering costs that the manufacturing sector has suffered in recent years at the hands of ransomware.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Continue reading Ransomware attacks cost manufacturing sector $46 billion in downtime since 2018, report claims
Paracetamol and ibuprofen are among the world’s most common over-the-counter painkillers, but manufacturing them requires crude oil. Now, researchers at the University of Bath have developed a more sustainable method, creating the drugs out of waste pr… Continue reading Painkiller producers could pivot to paper waste instead of crude oil
Despite its many advantages, glass has one major Achilles’ heel – it’s brittle. Now, engineers at Penn State have developed LionGlass, a new type of the material that’s not only 10 times more damage resistant, but requires significantly less energy to … Continue reading LionGlass boasts 10x the strength of regular glass, greener production
One of the keys to making money with manufacturing is to find something that you can make a lot of. Most small manufacturers have one or two “bread and butter” …read more Continue reading Automate Away the Drudgery of CNC Manufacturing
Over the years, I’ve been curious to dig deeper into the world of the manufacturing in China. But what I’ve found is that Western anecdotes often felt surface-level, distanced, literally …read more Continue reading Books You Should Read: Prototype Nation
If there’s an unsung hero of manufacturing, it’s the engineer who figures out how to handle huge numbers of small parts. It’s one thing to manually assemble something, picking each …read more Continue reading Compressed Air Keeps Screws Moving Through Modular Production System
New integrations expand on Matterport spatial data service for AWS IoT TwinMaker.
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