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Space Age Ceramics Are Aviation's New Cup Of Tea

Tomas Kellner
July 13, 2016
People have been making things from iron and steel for more than 3,000 years. Machines built from their alloys have landed on the moon and reached the very bottom of the ocean. But engineers such as GE Aviation’s Sanjay Correa now believe that “we’re running out of headroom in metals.”
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Advanced Manufaturing

Watch This Water-Guided Laser Machine Cut The Tiniest Holes In The Toughest Metals

Tomas Kellner
May 19, 2016
The project was so secret that team members had to pick up jackhammers, knock down walls and modify the workshop by themselves. Problems quickly popped up after they unpacked the engine from its box. “We didn’t have the right tools,” Sorota said. “Our wrenches didn’t fit the nuts and bolts because they were on the metric system. We had to grind them open a little more to get inside.”
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Factory Of The Future

The Exponential Revolution: Ray Kurzweil Says The Convergence Of 3D Printing, Nanomaterials And Software Will Change The World

Tomas Kellner
May 12, 2016
If you’ve recently traveled overseas on a Boeing 777 plane, it’s quite likely that a pair of massive GE90 jet engines powered your ride. More powerful than the rocket that took the first American astronaut, Alan Shepard, into space, the engines are representative of the complex machines that GE has been producing for more than a century. But they also show how GE is connecting physical products with software and making them better. “Manufacturing is not a fixed process,” says Christine Furstoss, vice president and technical director for manufacturing and materials at GE Global Research.
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Factory Of The Future

Hacking Matter: Singularity University Holds First Exponential Manufacturing Summit In Boston

Tomas Kellner
May 10, 2016
Welcome To The Jet Age
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4th Industrial Revolution

These 3 Industries Are Getting Transformed by Advanced Manufacturing

Grayson Brulte Brulte Company
April 26, 2016

From electric vehicles on the ground to rockets in space, a range of industries are already benefitting from advanced manufacturing — innovative technologies and processes that are set to transform nearly every sector.

 

Imagine a world of full of machines manufacturing anything we desire on-demand, where robots attend to workers’ every need. Welcome to the future of advanced manufacturing — a hybrid of technologies and processes that manufactures goods through the use of innovative technologies.
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microfactories

Jay Rogers: Why Making Things Locally Is The Key to Sustainable Manufacturing

Jay Rogers Local Motors
April 24, 2016
The government selected GE for the project because of its knowledge of the high-temperature metals needed to withstand the heat inside the engine, and its expertise in building turbines for power plants and battleships, and superchargers for high-altitude bombers. GE now calls this know-how accessibility and cross-pollination the GE Store. “The FBI man warned me that if I gave away any secrets, the penalty was death,” Sorota said.
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skills-gap

Jennifer McNelly: It’s Not Your Grandfather’s Manufacturing

Jennifer Mcnelly The Manufacturing Institute
April 17, 2016

A key demographic could help close the skills gap in manufacturing: women. We need to do a better job of attracting and retaining this untapped resource.

 

U.S. manufacturers today face a tremendous challenge finding quality talent to stay competitive in the global economy. Over the next decade, nearly 3.5 million manufacturing jobs likely will need to be filled, and the skills gap is expected to result in 2 million of those jobs going unfilled.
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3D Printing

These Scientists Are Writing The 3D-Printing Cookbook For GE

Todd Alhart
April 12, 2016
A Knock On The Door
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jobs

Here's How Advanced Manufacturing Is Transforming The Factory

April 04, 2016
Advanced Manufacturing is creating disruption — as well as opportunities — for workers. This infographic explores the implications for the jobs of the future.
 

The 4th Industrial Revolution is ushering in a new era in manufacturing by merging hardware and software and reimagining how products are designed, made and serviced. Advanced manufacturing has profound implications for the future of work, as well.
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Robotics

Jim Lawton: 3 Challenges for Manufacturing’s Innovation Age

Jim Lawton Chief Product And Marketing Officer At Rethink Robotics
April 03, 2016

At the intersection of mind and machine, manufacturing is poised for transformation. Here are three challenges industry faces in order to capitalize on advances in robotics and the Industrial Internet.

 
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