The New Frontier of Oil & Gas Production: Ensuring Reliable Infrastructure
As oil and gas production advances into challenging new environments, advanced technologies are required to minimize the potential for structural failures which pose safety and environmental risks.
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Additive Manufacturing for the Space Market
Commercial and government space markets can benefit significantly from additive manufacturing (AM) using a wide range of materials.
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Development of an Open Architecture Capacitive Discharge Welding System
Capacitive discharge (CD) welding is a variation of resistance projection welding (RPW). For CD welding, electrical power is stored in a capacitor, and discharged through a transformer into the workpieces.
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Application of Forced Freeze during Flash-Butt Welding for Coil Joining of Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS)
Recent improvements in control features and techniques for flash-Butt welding extended the range of high tensile strength steels weldable on conventional Flash-Butt Welding (FBW) machines.
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Learning to Adapt: Combining Technology and Experience to Address Welding Automation Challenges
Since the mechanical revolution, automation has been employed by nearly every industry to streamline production.
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Machine Vision: How Intelligent Robots Are Advancing Automation
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Putting Collaborative Robots to Work
Until recently, industrial robots were considered dangerous machines. To effectively use them and keep people at a safe distance, they had to be enclosed in a cage or guarded with safety equipment.
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Understanding Collaborative Robot Safety
The current popular trend in industrial robotics is the emergence of collaborative robots.
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Developing a U.S. Roadmap for Advanced Joining and Forming Technologies
EWI recently led the development of the first comprehensive U.S. Advanced Joining and Forming Technology Roadmap under a two-year program funded by The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) through the Advanced Manufacturing Technology Consortia (AMTech) program.
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Oil & Gas Strategic Technology Committee: Research for 2018
The Oil & Gas Strategic Technology Committee (STC) was established by EWI in 2013.
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