There is a high chance that specific shapes and mechanical properties are required when sourcing an alloy product for an industrial, medical, or consumer application. This is where cold working ...

This article will describe three types, or ways, of manufacturing a product; additive, subtractive, and forming. What is Additive Manufacturing? Think of an artist painting a bear on a canvas. What is ...

Every factory since the start of the industrial revolution has shared one very specific trait: tooling sets the identity of the machines, and thus the factory. To create a specific part requires ...

Generally, batch production refers to a technique that produces multiple units of a product in a series of different steps. As the individual units progress along each step of the production line, ...

The continuous-glass-fibre segment (continuous-filament glass fibre/reinforcement glass fibre) accounts for a good part of business in the overall glass sector, in terms of tonnage and (especially) ...

Constraints on the U.S. defense industrial base and concerns about limited manufacturing capacity have been ascribed to a production approach described as “just-in-time.” Just-in-time production has ...