manufacturing

Ford Creates First Silicon Valley Presence with New Research Lab to Drive Innovation in Personal Mobility

New lab will support Ford's vision that its future is not just about building cars but about creating uncompromised personal mobility experiences for people around the world.Full Article

OSC’s Ralph Regula School of Computational Science: Five Years Later

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Choose_Ohio.jpg" alt="" width="57" height="57" />The Ralph Regula School of Computational Science at the Ohio Supercomputer Center is a statewide virtual school focused on the exciting new ...Full Article

Women Could Fill a Void in Manufacturing

Attracting more women to an industry with a prior image of being dull, dirty and dangerous may be the answer to filling manufacturing jobs that remain open despite a ...Full Article

Surprise: China’s Manufacturing Growth Slows

Purchasing Manager's Index indicates a slump in Chinese manufacturing for the first time since February 2009.Full Article

Waiting for the Next Generation of STEM Workers

In these tough times there are jobs out there but a dearth of skilled workers to fill them. Some 600,000 STEM-related vacancies remain unfilled in the U.S. ...Full Article

The Road to Exascale: Can Nanophotonics Help?

A new nanoscale light-based device developed at Stanford's School of Engineering transmits data at ultrafast rates while using thousands of times less energy than current technologies. The nanophotonic device ...Full Article

Case Study: MSC Nastran Used to Optimize Unmanned Aircraft Performance

The Global Observer is an unmanned aircraft with the wingspan of a Boeing 767 but less than 10 percent of the weight designed to provide communications and sensing for ...Full Article

Bringing Big Tools to the Little Guys

Jon Riley, National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, addresses the plight of the missing middle at SC11. "We call them the missing middle because they basically are in the Valley ...Full Article

AMPing Up American Manufacturing

The American Manufacturing Partnership calls for a national effort to support the creation of good jobs by helping US manufacturers reduce costs, improve quality, and accelerate product development. ...Full Article