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Understanding Fluid Flow in Microchannels

May 22, 2013 | The ability to control fluid streams at microscale is of great importance in many domains such as biological processing, guiding chemical reactions, and creating structured materials. Recently, it has been discovered that placing pillars of different dimensions, and at different offsets, allows fluid transformations to “sculpt” fluid streams.
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Floodgates Open for the Industrial Internet

May 20, 2013 | So far, the story surrounding the industrial Internet has been centered around GE, and their plans to infuse their factories with thousands of sensors that will bring big data to manufacturing. But after record-breaking floods from Hurricane Sandy took their toll on New York and New Jersey, environmental and civil engineers have found a new application for the Internet-connected sensor system.
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GM Invests in HPC Center for Crash Test Simulations

May 17, 2013 | As the cloud becomes an increasingly attractive option for manufacturers with big needs in IT, scalable options such as outsourced data centers have become a must-have for many companies. But General Motors has taken a step in the opposite direction when its $130 million datacenter went online Monday in the suburb of Warren, Michigan.
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Boosting the Workforce, One Veteran at a Time

May 15, 2013 | When we talk to manufacturers of any size, one concern across the board has been finding engineers with sufficient education and training to do their job. Taking one step toward alleviating this issue is Siemens, who have launched a U.S. job training initiative for veterans, hoping to round out the training of engineers throughout the country.
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STEM Talks Take Root at NEF Regional Dialogues

May 14, 2013 | The National Engineering Forum (NEF) has developed a three-pronged approached in keeping the US engineering workforce competitive, for which it hopes to help spread awareness through a series of regional dialogue events held throughout the country.
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3D Printing Falls into Gun Control Controversy

May 10, 2013 | It appears that the battle over self-manufactured guns may finally be underway. Only days after the world’s first fully 3D-printed gun was fired and its CAD files were publically released to the Internet, the U.S. State Department has ordered its takedown, citing international arms control law.
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New HPC Computing Center Offers Opportunity for Digital Manufacturers

May 08, 2013 | The Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing at Texas Tech University is looking for organizations to participate in its Industry Advisory Board. This is an ideal opportunity for companies in the digital manufacturing sector to have a say in the development of standards, security protocols and other priorities for HPC leveraging cloud technology.
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GMU and NCMS Celebrate Launch of New Center for Collision Safety & Analysis

May 06, 2013 | An upcoming event will mark the launch of a new research center at George Mason University, with GMU administrators, staff from the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS), government officials, and representatives from the transportation industry in attendance. The occasion celebrates the Center for Collision Safety and Analysis at GMU, and is scheduled for Tuesday, May 7th, 2:00-4:00 p.m. in the Research Hall’s Showcase Room on GMU’s Fairfax Campus.
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Intel to Manufacture Its Own Destiny?

May 03, 2013 | On Thursday, Intel announced that it has chosen a successor to take the reins from Paul Otellini, who announced his intention to retire six months ago. Taking his place is former COO Brian Krzanich, who will take over at Intel's annual stockholders' meeting on May 16. But many are asking “Who is Krzanich, and where will he be taking the semiconductor giant?
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Amid Sweeping Budget Cuts, Obama Stands by STEM

May 01, 2013 | At the 150th anniversary of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) this week, President Barack Obama said the nation cannot afford to make sweeping budget cuts that threaten to stall the depth and pace of research, saying that this could put us years behind in research and threaten the nation's global competitiveness.
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From Striped Toothpaste to Lithium-Ion Batteries

Apr 30, 2013 | PARC, an NCMS member company, is a name you might not recognize but really is someone you do know. Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC) has been responsible for the computer mouse, GUI, icons, windows, Ethernet and the laser printer, and are still as innovative as ever while they work with companies, government agencies and other partners providing R&D services, technology, expertise, best practices, and intellectual property management.
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PLM: Formula for Racing Success

Apr 26, 2013 | When talking about Formula One auto racing, most people think of one thing: speed. Each driver and each car has been fine-tuned to consistently put down the lap times that are within milliseconds of what is physically possible. But in F1, speed isn’t a quality exclusive to the racetrack, which one team has shown with the help of Siemens PLM.
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Manufacturing Fuels Supercomputing Growth

Apr 24, 2013 | Big rigs have become a staple of the American highway, but lately they've become an uncomfortable metaphor for our country as a whole. They're big, they're wasteful, and harmful to the environment. This problem led Mike Henderson, president of SmartTruck to get access to the world's most powerful supercomputer head his team's design process.
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On Cloud Nine

Apr 22, 2013 | Large industrial plants and their need for higher accuracy are increasing the computational intensity of simulation in process industries. But on most systems, with added complexity comes sacrifices in time and ultimately money. So when F L Smidth's multiphase flow model for their new flash dryer took about five days to run on its local infrastructure, the company decided to look to the cloud.
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Snyder Pushes Michigan to Approve Driverless Cars

Apr 19, 2013 | It's easy to laugh at the image of the 21st century that generations past have conjured up: flying cars, robot servants, and other commodities exclusive to books and TV shows like The Jetsons. But self-driving cars are not as far away as we may think. Just this week, Governor Rick Snyder made it the center of his keynote address at this year's Michigan Robotics Day.
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Linux: Coming to an Infotainment System Near You

Apr 17, 2013 | Open source: when it comes to operating systems, we're all for it, but as soon as you move into financial services or the automotive industry, people begin to get a bit wary. After all, billions of dollars or millions of lives could be on the line. But all it takes to break into an industry is for a single company, which Linux hopes will be Jaguar Land Rover.
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Humans and Robots Converge at Innorobo 2013

Apr 15, 2013 | From March 19th to the 21st, record crowds came into Cite Internationale in Lyon, France, with over 15,000 entries for Innorobo 2013, an annual conference centered around the demonstration of today's service robots. Featuring everything from commercially available products to cutting-edge robot concepts, the event is a playground for tech toys of tomorrow.
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Manufacturing Sees Boost in 2014 Budget

Apr 12, 2013 | Despite significant spending cuts to Medicare and defense, President Obama's proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2014 had added funding across the board for manufacturers, reflecting his determination that the industry will be the lynchpin for building a stronger middle class.
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SAP Syncs Up with Industry 4.0

Apr 10, 2013 | What do machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, the Internet of Things and automation have in common? According to SAP, they are all taking us into what the company is calling “Industry 4.0,” the merger between interconnected industrial equipment and next-generation IT, which has driven the company's latest software updates for manufacturing.
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DOE Chips in for Energy-Efficient Manufacturing

Apr 08, 2013 | The Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition has announced $7.8 million award from the Advanced Manufacturing Program at the DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, making clear that the push for greener factories still has a lot of weight behind it. With it, the SMLC hopes to develop real-time energy monitoring systems to help create more efficient factories.
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GE Proficy Goes Mobile

Apr 05, 2013 | When we think of analytics, we often picture the tidy offices of suit-and-tie-wearing employees—not the hubbub of a factory floor. This is a problem General Electric hopes to solve with the recent announcement of its Proficy Mobile platform, which has been designed to give operators the data they need no matter where they are.
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Autodesk Beefs Up 2014 Design Suites

Apr 03, 2013 | It's that time of year again—everyone is hitting the gym to get ready for summer. But with the recent announcement of its 2014 Design Suites, 3D design giant Autodesk is beefing up in a slightly different way. The release includes changes to both the Product Design and Factory Design suites that include an new products and greater interoperability.
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Altair Assimilates Parasolid into HyperWorks

Apr 01, 2013 | “Assimilation” may have taken on a negative connotation for those familiar with the Borg, but dystopian sci-fi examples aside, assimilation is at the core of any business looking to keep ahead of the competition—a fact that has led Altair to expand its software license agreement with Siemens PLM to include the deployment of the geometry engine Parasolid Designer throughout its product line.
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ORNL Brings Photonic Curing to Market

Mar 29, 2013 | The transition from academia to industry is where most technologies and medical treatments meet their end, which has led the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer to recognize ORNL helping to bring its pulse thermal processing technology to the private sector.
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ORNL Kicks off Clean Energy Initiative with New Carbon Fiber Facility

Mar 27, 2013 | In his 2013 State of the Union Address, President Obama cited clean energy technology and advanced manufacturing as the foundation upon which the U.S. economy could be rebuilt. One more brick of that economic groundwork was laid on Tuesday with the opening of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Carbon Fiber Technology Facility (CFTF).
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