EWI affiliate Fabrisonic wins “Outstanding Startup Business” Award from TechColumbus
Congrats to Mark Norfolk and the Fabrisonic LLC team for being named this year’s “Outstanding Startup Business” at last night’s TechColumbus 2012 Innovation Awards ceremony! Twenty-eight Ohio businesses were nominated for the award which recognizes high-perfomance companies established within the last 5 years. To read more about the TechColumbus Innovation Awards, click here. Kudos to EWI Technology Leader Matt […]
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Manufacturing Innovation for the Common Man – Linear Friction Welding (Part 3 of 8)
Here’s a test to see if you’re a Common Man… If I asked you (95% of the people reading this blog) to describe what welding is, I’m guessing you would describe one of two things: Arcs and/or Sparks. When I started here at EWI as CFO, I pictured either a guy flipping down his welding […]
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EWI Gets a Plug at the World Economic Forum
Hey, we are in the news again! This morning EWI received special mention at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in an important session on advanced manufacturing. In describing Ohio’s leading role in new manufacturing technologies, Governor John Kasich specifically named EWI as a leader in additive manufacturing, calling our capabilities “absolutely remarkable.” Additive […]
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Welding Automation for Heavy Fabrication
More and more, robotic welding is becoming a viable option for use in heavy fabrication. The sophistication and capacity of modern robot systems is suitable for large structures which require multi-pass welds. Processes used for heavy fabrication such as preheating, gas metal arc welding (GMAW), flux cored arc welding (FCAW), tandem gas metal arc welding […]
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Detecting flaws in FSW can be a tough proposition
Friction Stir Welding (FSW) is an advanced welding process that uses a third body (often called the “tool” or “pin”) to generate frictional heat between two parts to create a solid-state bond. Originally developed for thin sheet aluminum, the process has now been adapted for a variety of materials from soft metals (aluminum, copper, magnesium, lead) to […]
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EWI Named Top Ten Company on List of Ohio Innovators
I just heard that EWI was listed on COLUMBUS BUSINESS FIRST’s prestigious “Central Ohio Innovators” list in 2012. While this may not be a surprise to EWI associates and partners, its great recognition for the leading-edge work – including nine patents between 2006 and 2010 – developed by our small corps of engineers. COLUMBUS BUSINESS […]
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Arc Welding Aluminum at High Speed
Gas metal arc welding (GMAW) and gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) are both regularly used for welding aluminum. GTAW is a slow process when compared to GMAW and GMAW is typically used when extremely high weld quality (with respect to porosity) is not required. GMAW works well for welding aluminum in structural, automotive, or thick […]
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Lighten Up – Joining Technology for Lightweighting
Lightweighting is an important focus for design folks in the automotive and aerospace worlds. Reducing the weight of a vehicle helps to improve fuel economy and reducing the weight of an airplane additionally enables more cargo to be carried. Magnesium-Aluminum-Zinc (Mg-Al-Zn) alloys have the highest strength to weight ratios of structural metals. AZ31B (Mg-3Al-1Zn) is […]
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Meet the EWI Materials Team – George Ritter
This week the “Meet the Team” series introduces George Ritter of the EWI Materials group. George specializes in the areas of adhesives and plastics. George has spent over 30 years in industrial research environments, with much of that time spent on structural adhesives bonding applications. Please feel free to contact George if you have any […]
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EWI Gets Shout-Out in TIME Magazine
In this week’s edition of TIME Magazine, EWI has been recognized as a player in the recent economic success of our city and region. As the Curious Capitalist notes in the column “The Columbus Comeback,” EWI is part of the economic engine making the city’s economy hum again. In the article, TIME referred to EWI […]
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