Manufacturing has always been important to Northeast Indiana. “We had always been first in and last out of a recession," says John Sampson, president and COO of the Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership. "But this time we were first in and first out.”
Quite often, the biggest drawback of an industrial electronic machine—such as a robot—is often its lack of mobility. Since 2009, the Southwest Research Institute has been working to change that.
On Sept. 25, 2012, Lenze Americas held a grand opening at its new mechanical product assembly and logistics center in Glendale Heights, IL. The facility supports electromechanical product manufacturing operations for the Americas region.
Recently, I joined nearly 100 other members of the manufacturing community at a 3D printing open house. Many manufacturers use 3D printing because it lets them revise a prototype many times before investing in mass production. I also learned about several other key benefits of 3D printing.
Wouldn’t it be great if candiates for public office would pledge to end the stereotype that manufacturing is non-existent in the United States? I'll do my part to make this happen. Will you?
Nearly 70 exhibitors and more than 800
laser-industry experts, advocates and practitioners attended the inaugural
Lasers for Manufacturing Event presented by the Laser Institute of America.
Attendees came from as far away as Russia,
Japan, Egypt, Korea
and Turkey.
For me, day two of this year’s Assembly &
Automation Technology Expo was just as interesting as day one. It began and
ended with learning about medical-device assembly and manufacturing.
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