Manufacturing Innovation (Page 11)

Continuous process innovation and improvement are critical to the success of any manufacturing organization. Companies must be open to adjusting their internal operations in response to new technologies, shifts in consumer demand, changes in the economy, and other external forces. In fact, the smartest manufacturers view these disruptions as opportunity catalysts and maintain plans to...

With rapid growth in the space exploration industry, there is great demand for fuel efficient, lightweight vehicles with increased capacity for payload. Advances in production materials offer several viable options for space manufacturers. Next Generation Materials for Space Launch Vehicles, a paper by EWI Applications Engineer Mike Eff, examines the material needs of today’s LVs...

In past years, efforts to adopt electric technologies in transportation manufacturing have been focused on the automotive sector. Today, however, industries including aerospace, shipbuilding, and commercial trucking are incorporating electromobility innovations to create products with lower emissions and greater energy efficiency than their traditional alternatives. E-mobility solutions offer attractive benefits, but there are challenges to...