CONTENTS Spring 2016 Vol. 1, No. 1
FEATURES DEPARTMENTS
1 | Connect & Engage 4 | Upfront Now Playing: Manufacuring’s Next Act
6 | Upfront Follow Your Intuition,
Downplay the Obstacles
38 | Tech Front The skinny on the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation
40 | Software Update Efficiency software for
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10 | Modern Times circa 2016: Achieving unprecedented control Merger of cyber, physical manufacturing worlds improves costs, quality, safety and customization.
20 | 30 visionaries merging the cyber and physical worlds Who’s making good on the promise of a revolution in making.
29 | Collaborative robots: New kids on automation block Technological advances improve safety of what many call cobots.
41 | How one Ohio high school makes engineers Centerville High adopted the Project Lead the Way curriculum, for starters.
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44 | Impossible Objects goes after ‘functional parts’ Firm develops an additive technology that can create ready-to-use, high-strength parts with few geometric restrictions.
49 | What’s what in metal 3D printers Look for metal printers to be used for industrial purposes, especially in the aerospace and medical industries.
52 | Metal AM adoption racing ahead of capacity to provide qualified workforce Challenges also exist in certification and optimization on the shop floor, but US firms have a competitive advantage, at least for now.
any machine, any control 58 | News Briefs
Advanced Manufacturing Now 8 | AA, IM and AME can propel smart manufacturing forward 19 | Follow four core tactics to build a connected enterprise 36 | Programming freedom with Open Core Engineering 43 | Time to ‘abstract’ data sets from all over into ‘data lakes’ 48 | To meet quality, cost, delivery goals, learning needs to take place weekly 51 | Connecting everything requires strong IT plan 57 | RIA addresses safety of humans in cobot system 64 | Welcome to the real-time world, job shop and OEM fabricators
A REV O L UTI O N IN M AKIN G
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Spring 2016
30 Visionaries ...
ALSO INSIDE: f Improving cost, quality, safety, customization all at once
f The advent of cobots f AM proving its mettle
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