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Two for Friday – Mining Asteroids and Affordable CNC Milling Machines

May 9, 2014 by Joe Hackman Leave a Comment

It's no secret that we love lofty goals. One of this week's features has such a goal. It is literally and figuratively lofty, they plan to mine asteroids. The other subject is near and dear to many of us, bringing those versatile CNC machines we appreciate into the hands of normal people. We know more about Asteroids than we do about the Earth An Affordable Desktop CNC … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Manufacturing, News Tagged With: Carbide3D, Desktop CNC, Mesh-Cam, Planetary Resources, Two for Friday

Making Manufacturing Cool for Current and Future Generations

May 5, 2014 by Joe Hackman 1 Comment

SpaceX Huge Multimedia Images Tell a Story

The Image Problem with Manufacturing in the USA To say Manufacturing in the US has an image problem is putting it lightly. Even Walmart's attempt to rally support for their commitment to US Manufacturing portrayed factories as dingy, dirty, grit encrusted environments. When you talk about manufacturing it conjures up a vision of huge factories in the far east with unskilled … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Manufacturing, News Tagged With: Gen Y, Hackathon, Images, Manufacturing, Millennials, Skilled Jobs, SpaceX, Stories, Tesla, Video

Two for Friday – Data Collection Standards and Flying Dune Buggies

May 2, 2014 by Joe Hackman Leave a Comment

We're going to have fun today with two completely diverse topics. One of them will make the manufacturing industry better and the other could make your wallet lighter. Are you ready? Data Collection Standards - Siemens names TechSolve as Solution Partner for MTConnect The Dune Buggy that Can Fly - SkyRunner Data Collection Standards - Siemens Names TechSolve as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Manufacturing, News Tagged With: Aerospace, Aviation, Innovation, Machine Data Collection, MDC, MTConnect, Parajet International, SIEMENS, Two for Friday

You Selected Arizona but Tesla May Build the Giga-factory in California

April 28, 2014 by Joe Hackman 3 Comments

Elon with a Tesla Model S in Fremont

You might recall earlier this month when we asked you where you thought that Tesla would build their 5 billion dollar battery giga-factory. At the time only Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas appeared to be in the running and you voted fairly overwhelmingly in favor of Arizona. On April 26th New Mexico Watchdog reported that there may be a chance that the factory will be in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Jobs, Manufacturing Tagged With: Advocacy, Elon Musk, Fremont, giga-factory, Lathrop, Model-S, NUMI, Tesla

Two for Friday – Shop Classes and Positive Shipments

April 25, 2014 by Joe Hackman 1 Comment

In this weeks edition of Two for Friday we'll discuss the seemingly conflicted relationship in two distinct topics. It's no wonder people get confused about where things are going. This week we were reminded that high paying jobs exist without candidates to fill them and yet un-employment overall remains high. We also learned that in spite of sentiment being low, shipments hit … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Education, Jobs, Manufacturing, News Tagged With: Jobs, PMPA, Skilled Jobs, Welding

Attracting the Right People to Manufacturing with STEM Education

April 21, 2014 by Joe Hackman 2 Comments

As many of you probably already know, our background is as an IT provider. When we took on the opportunity of being a CIMCO reseller in 2006, it was a practical decision. There was a need for someone to answer the calls, fill the orders and help people with servicing their licenses. At that point we had worked with several machine shops in the IT capacity for many years. Then … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Education, Manufacturing Tagged With: Advocacy, Clemson University, Jobs, STEM, Valerie Pezzullo

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