It shouldnt be a surprise that the and include a heavy emphasis on federal investments in R&D. Since World War II, federal investments in research have led to life-changing inventions ranging from the vaccine to , but as a bonus, federal R&D also creates...
After a recent bicycle ride, the frame of my road bike caught my attention. It struck me that, when I first started riding seriously far more years ago than I care to admit, the carbon fiber composite that my bike is made of today simply didnt exist. Aluminum alloy rims were a pretty new thing (and seemed to bend if you just looked at them wrong)...
As manufacturing undergoes the revolutionary changes of the Digital Age, the people with the keenest leadership skills have taken up the charge to modernize the industry so that it leverages the cloud and Big Data and is connected and smart. Their success encourages the rest of the manufacturing world to follow.
To assemble this list of leaders...
The manufacturing process that takes the next big idea from concept to market is one of the greatest factors propelling innovation forward or in some cases, holding it back. Without this important step, wed live in a world without many of the ingenious technologies that improve our daily lives and excite our imaginations, from smartwatches to...
(RCBI, Huntington, W.Va., U.S.) has announced the creation of a new apprenticeship training program for composite technicians, that was recently approved by the U.S. Department of Labor.
Introduced by Lucinda Curry, workforce director at RCBI, at an Aug. 21 meeting of the Composites Coalition in Chattanooga, Tenn., U...
