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The future of flight and changing supplier relationships

May 29, 2018

Business dynamics will change in aerospace supply chains as manufacturers incorporate new technological advances shaping the future of flight.

Advances in materials, propulsion, human mach…

By John O'Connor
4 MIN READ

How the future of flight changes product lifecycle management

April 30, 2018

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong’s televised moonwalk transfixed the world. People couldn’t believe what they were seeing. A spacecraft had safely transported two astronauts 360,000 kilometers (223,6…

By John O'Connor
4 MIN READ

The future of flight has already taken off

April 4, 2018

A confluence of new technologies is transforming the aerospace industry. The trends they’re driving herald the prospect of space tourism, unmanned delivery drones and new aircraft designs, along with…

By John O'Connor
4 MIN READ

How a fennel bulb helped engineers innovate product design

January 8, 2018

Generative design leverages algorithms from existing design knowledge with autonomous computing, which evaluates all possible permutations of a design given a set of constraints.
It allows design…

By TParrella
3 MIN READ

Top Thought Leadership topics of 2017

December 19, 2017

I’d like to take a moment to reflect on how much the Thought Leadership blog has grown since last year’s launch and to extend my thanks to you, our readers. Your continued support has helped the blog…

By ToniB
5 MIN READ

Open your shop’s doors to new markets with adaptive systems

December 4, 2017

Machine shop owners hate waste. They are hawks on machine downtime, bristle at the time lag during functional hand-offs and go ballistic when mistakes threaten delivery delays. Yet too many machine s…

By Sashko Kurciski
4 MIN READ

Manufacturers: get ready for the algorithms

November 6, 2017

The latest biological research suggests that all animal life on Earth is best described as meat-based algorithms. From the fruit fly to the killer whale, animal behavior is the result of survival log…

By alastairorchard
7 MIN READ

The benefits of becoming a digital machine shop

November 1, 2017

Information already drives the machine tool industry to a certain extent, but in today’s digitalized world, managing and sharing knowledge is fast becoming a critical competitive advantage.
…

By Sashko Kurciski
4 MIN READ

Are machine shops at risk of becoming the next Blackberry?

October 23, 2017

Blackberry. Blockbuster. Kodak. Business history is rife with companies that once led their respective industries, but that have fallen behind or ceased to exist.

The common thread in thei…

By Sashko Kurciski
4 MIN READ