The White House will announce the launch of a new public-private institute geared toward developing advanced lightweight metal manufacturing technology for transition to the industrial sector. Under the direction of technology innovator EWI in association with University of Michigan and The Ohio State University, the American Lightweight Materials Manufacturing Innovation Institute (ALMMII) will open its […]
Read MoreWe receive many questions about the difference between soldering and brazing. They are very similar joining techniques, both involving the melting of a filler metal to join two or more components without melting the base material of the components. The American Welding Society (AWS) defines brazing as such a process which involves a filler metal […]
Read MoreIf you are in the Buffalo area on February 25th, come on out to the Business First Manufacturing Power Breakfast to learn more about plans for the EWI-run advanced manufacturing institute opening this month. Steve Levesque, Operations Manager for the new center, will be featured on a panel discussing “Manufacturing Success in Western New York.” […]
Read MoreExcitement is building in Western New York as state and local officials, businesses, and community leaders get ready to welcome EWI to downtown Buffalo. EWI will launch the new advanced manufacturing institute at the end of February […]
Read MoreWe are proud to announce that EWI’s project, “Refining Microstructure of AM Materials to Improve Non-Destructive Inspection (NDI),” has been selected by America Makes, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, in its latest round of awards in 2014. EWI, along with Lockheed Martin Company and Sciaky Inc., will address the need to improve ultrasonic inspection […]
Read MoreEver since the invention of computers, human thinking logic has been fundamentally changed. It directly results in changes of humans’ self-confidence, languages, and behaviors. Nowadays, people would like to program their activities, rules, codes, management and work as much as possible and strongly believe that they can achieve their designed success as running a computer […]
Read MoreWell folks, Movember is in the books for 2013 and we had a great month raising awareness and cold hard cash for men’s health issues. In our third year of participating in Movember, we set the fundraising goal pretty high at $5000. I say pretty high, because in the prior two years combined we had […]
Read MoreEWI affiliate Fabrisonic is about to debut a new rotary module that can ultrasonically add layers of metal on the outer diameter of a shaft, cylinder, or pipe. This development is a huge step forward for additive metal manufacturing. Read details in a recent article published in “3D Printing Industry.”
Read MoreEWI partnered with NAMII/America Makes and several other principal collaborators (CTC and University of Louisville) to address advances in Measurement Science for Additive Manufacturing. The competitively bid award with the Department of Commerce and the National Institute for Standards and Technology totals $5M over two years. EWI is leading a team to develop a robust, […]
Read MoreOne of our Open House visitors, Chris Staley, was so impressed with the national Manufacturing Day initiative (events held at more than 830 facilities around the country) that he shared his impressions on his own blog. Read his reflections and view his “Infographic Interview” with EWI.
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