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 […]
Read MoreI’m not sure if “politicing” is used appropriately as a verb (kind of like “efforting”), but it seems accurate for what is happening these days around the deficit. On the positive side, the media is continuing to publicize the deficit as the major issue for the candidates to address. But in this case, “address” is […]
Read MoreWhen using a consumable-electrode process such as gas metal arc welding (GMAW) or submerged arc welding (SAW), the three primary process variables are arc current, wire feed speed (the rate at which the consumable electrode is fed from the welding torch), and arc voltage. Current and wire-feed-speed cannot be varied independently. To maintain the same […]
Read MorePlasma arc welding (PAW) is very similar to gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW). If you look at the schematic shown in Figure 1 you can see that the arc in PAW is created between a non-consumable tungsten electrode and is constricted by passing through an orifice. This provides a more columnar arc with a higher […]
Read MoreWith NFL teams reporting for training camps (Who Dey?), it’s apropo the New York Times reported Tuesday that the leaders of the two houses tentatively agreed to a budget extension for federal spending through March, 2013 (“budget” is in quotes because the government doesn’t actually have a budget). So I was wrong a few weeks ago in my […]
Read MoreSo here’s the deal… I am SUPER excited that manufacturing in the USA is going through this “re-birth.” I think it’s great that one thing Congress and President Obama can agree on is the fact that we need to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US (not so awesome is the fact that this may […]
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