digital manufacturing

Make or Buy: Addressing the Digital Manufacturing Labor Shortage

There is no magic bullet for a hot job market such as HPC. Companies need to think holistically about what can make their company an attractive employer, and they ...Full Article

Addressing the Digital Manufacturing Labor Shortage

Gerry Ledford offers some ideas on how to increase the supply of skilled labor in the first of a two-part series.Full Article

A Tradition of Small Business in America

Handshake deals are part of America's legacy, but it's getting harder and harder to sell a product, including yourself, based on old ways.Full Article

Bringing Powerful HPC Software to Small- and Medium-Sized Manufacturers

The Department of Energy's Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) has joined the ranks of agencies, institutions and individuals determined to help small- to medium-sized manufacturers (SMMs) benefit ...Full Article

Cloud Computing and the Resurgence of Small- to Medium-Sized Manufacturers

Cloud computing has many of the same goals as time-sharing, and has the added benefit of four decades of technological advances to support its mission of bringing affordable computing ...Full Article

Milk and Cookies To Go: A New Packaging Concept Is Born

Extensive research into consumer eating habits — from rising obesity rates and the latest dietary guidelines to on-the-go food consumption — provided the impetus for Emergent Technologies to create ...Full Article

The Power of Babble

When engineers talk about extrusion and tet meshing and FEA and so on, they're not trying to be pretentious — they're just speaking the language of engineering.Full Article

National Robotics Initiative Plays Key Role in Broader Manufacturing Strategy

An integral part of the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP), the National Robotics Initiative seeks to boost America's high-tech manufacturing sector by enhancing human capabilities, performance and safety.Full Article

Vision with Action – A Peek into the NCMS DM SIG Meeting

A Strategic Interest Group, or SIG, is a group of like-minded individuals and organizations with a common goal. Recently the Digital Manufacturing Strategic Interest Group (DM SIG) formed with ...Full Article

Designing Bicycle Wheels in the Cloud

While riding a bike may be easy, the aerodynamics involved in wheel design are complex, requiring powerful CFD software running on high-performance computer systems. The simulations generate so much ...Full Article