A new generation of hybrid solar cells will make it cheaper and easier to mass produce photovoltaic devices. The technology combines nanotechnology with plastic electronics.
Screen legend Cary Grant once called the stage his factory. Had he been a manufacturing engineer, he might have been understood literally, instead of metaphorically.
The Boeing Co. (Seattle) is one of the biggest airframe manufacturers in the world. In any given year, its facility produces 300 to 600 commercial airplanes, ranging from 717s to 747s.
John Deere’s manufacturing traditions date back to 1837, when blacksmith John Deere—developer of the first commercial, self-cleaning steel plow—founded the firm.
Ducommun Aerostructures (Long Beach, CA) now uses Tecnomatix Technologies’ (Nashua, NH) eMPower software to produce fuselage components for the Boeing C-17 aircraft. Ducommun manufactures aerostructures and assemblies for aircraft companies.
Eclipse Aviation Corp. (Albuquerque, NM) is using MTS Systems Corp.’s (Eden Prairie, MN) Eclipse 500 friction stir welding system to assemble the lower cabin of the Eclipse 500, a six-person, twin-engine jet. The 33-foot plane features a 36-foot wingspan.
In the mid-1960s, a popular science fiction movie called Fantastic Voyage portrayed the exploits of a group of scientists who traveled through a human body in a miniature submarine. Hollywood is often wrong in its portrayal of the future, but part of that fiction has become reality.
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