Manufacturing Innovation (Page 8)

EWI is pleased to welcome Incipio Devices to membership. The manufacturer of orthopedic implants and instrumentation provides solution-driven approaches to commercial products, contract manufacturing, and development out of offices in Huntington, Indiana, and St-Blaise, Switzerland.

Welding of dissimilar polymers is becoming more commonplace in manufacturing. There are several key reasons for this trend.  First, many new plastics are being used in environments where adhesives cannot be easily applied. Typical examples include medical products for which finding adhesives that pass FDA regulations and join materials with low surface energy (like polyolefins)...

Tele-manufacturing offers the ability to accurately transfer manual skillsets from local personnel to remote automated systems. EWI has been innovating in tele-manufacturing over the past two years by developing a tele-presence welding system. Tele-welding allows a worker to operate welding equipment from a remote location while still in control of the welding process and torch...