JoAnn Mitchell Senior Project Leader Sandvik Coromant Fair Lawn, NJ
www.sandvik.coromant.com
FOCUS ON THE WorkForce All Great Endeavors Begin in the Imagination I
f necessity is the mother of invention, then perhaps we can say that imagination is the father. When invention and imagi- nation come together, incredible things can be accomplished. Since the beginning of our great country, pioneers in the United States have been an innovation engine, steadily chugging along solving problems that have puzzled previous generations. From amazing engineering feats such as the Hoover Dam and the Empire State building to Neil Armstrong landing on the moon, all great endeavors began in the imagination. Landing on the Moon was a dream since the time of Plato. Now as it has been accomplished many times over, we almost take it for granted. For thou- sands of years, the idea of landing on the moon only resided in one’s imagination. It wasn’t until a team of talented people from both the creative and engineering disciplines combined resources that the moon landing became possible. But in doing so, many innovative and imaginative products and solutions have been created that make our world a better place. Creative imagina- tion combined with practical necessity solves problems that can extend far beyond the original design or use. Many NASA innovations intended only for space travel have benefited us in every day life although they were never designed to do so – and some of them have been lifesaving inventions.
an early and highly successful Mars probe project, on the surface of Mars by parachute. One of the most ambitious mis- sions ever sent to Mars, the goal of the Viking program was for an orbiter to photograph the surface of Mars and a vehicle to
Rationalizing insert assortments to cover multiple cutting situations can yield excellent results in many applications.
land on Mars to study the surface. The material was originally developed to solve the problem of strength and weight for durable parachute shrouds, not tires, for the Viking landers.
Creative imagination combined with practical necessity solves problems that can extend far beyond the original design or use.
Radial tires are commonplace items about which we don’t give much thought. It’s a perfect example of how a technical development evolved to solve an entirely different problem. The material used in many modern radial tires came from research and development designed to soft-land the Vikings,
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The problems of strength and weight, however, also impact the wear on radial tires. The imaginative leap from a Mars lander parachute shroud to the tires which many of us have on a very different mode of transportation we use every day is consider- able. But innovation, no matter how creative, is limited without
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