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Shift, a program based at EWI’s Buffalo Manufacturing Works, is designed to help small and medium-sized manufacturers improve their operations and competitiveness by identifying and investing in critical technology. Having just completed its first full year, Shift has already made a significant impact on manufacturing community in Western New York state. The program has helped...

Virtually all ship designs utilize copper-nickel alloys for applications such as fire mains and other seawater/freshwater piping, tanks, and structures such as rope guards and fairings. The manual gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) process that is typically used to weld copper-nickel pipe joints has relatively low productivity due to slow travel speeds and low deposition...

Stator windings in traction motors for electric vehicles are created by joining multiple short copper wire sections. Current joining approaches for these multiple copper wire sections lack the productivity for high volume manufacturing, require an increased amount of copper for assembly, and risk reduced joint strength due to softened copper from extended thermal cycles. In...