Why is EWI a great place to work? Reasons number 123 and 124
In a lot of ways EWI is not different than other companies. There are deadlines and budgets; cuts and investments to make; and a lot of the same stresses you have at your company. As CFO, I hear the same gripes I’m sure other controllers and CFO’s hear… “why can’t we do (fill in the […]
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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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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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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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Deficit Growing, Candidates Politicing, and Everyone’s Calling Shotgun
I’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 […]
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It’s 4th and long… Now what?
With 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 […]
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Ahead Of The Curve On US Manufacturing
So 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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