manufacturing

The Invisible Innovators: What Is the Missing Middle? And Why Do We Need Them?

The manufacturing market is held together by a vitally-important yet often ignored segment, known as the "Missing Middle." The term refers to the roughly 300,000 manufacturers in the US ...Full Article

Making Digital Manufacturing Affordable: A Vendor Perspective

A new breed of GPU-based workstations have the potential to make advanced computing resources available to small- to medium-sized manufacturers — especially the "missing middle" who are not yet ...Full Article

The Future Is Not Made, It Is Manufactured

Manufacturing hasn't been proven to sustain the US economy. It has been proven to sustain every economy in the history of civilization. No matter what else you do, you ...Full Article

Innovation: The Assembly Line of the 21st Century

Human history is marked with crucial innovations: moments that resulted in change so significant that they forever altered the way we live our lives. Manufacturing stands on the precipice ...Full Article

Hope for the Missing Middle

There are about 300,000 manufacturing companies in the United States. Only 5 percent of the total are big organizations like Boeing, General Motors and Procter & Gamble; the rest ...Full Article

Why SMMs Balk at Adopting Digital Manufacturing

Despite the fact that the adoption of digital manufacturing modeling and simulation can reduce costs, improve products, shorten time-to-market and, in general, boost a company's competitive capabilities, rapid and ...Full Article

APIs Enhance 3D Printing Experience

Feature-rich Web services contribute to 3D printing's growing popularity.Full Article