EWI’s Work with CermaClad™ Pipes Highlighted in Wall Street Journal
EWI’s engagement with Abakan Inc.‘s subsidiary MesoCoat on the development of the award-winning CermaClad™ technology was featured in the April 17 edition of the Wall Street Journal. The CermaClad high speed metal coating process has received numerous tech innovation awards in the past year. To learn more about EWI and CermaClad, read the full article: http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20130417-908337.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
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Welcome New EWI Member – Woodward Inc.
EWI is pleased to welcome Woodward Inc. as a new EWI member. Woodward integrates leading-edge technologies into fuel, combustion, fluid, actuation, and electronic control systems for the aerospace and energy markets. Within the aerospace market, they provide systems, components and solutions for both commercial and military applications. Their key focus areas are propulsion […]
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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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Flexible Decontamination Method Drastically Reduces Secondary Waste Generation
The Department of Energy has a substantial fleet of nuclear facilities that have reached their end of life or are projected to be at end of life in the near future. Many of these facilities are contaminated with radionuclides, asbestos, lead based paint, or other forms of contamination. These facilities need to be deactivated and […]
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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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Exciting Plenary Session at this Year’s TMS Meeting
One my personal favorite activities as a materials engineer is my volunteer support of TMS (The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society, tms.org). They are a first class organization and I always enjoy supporting their efforts on engaging the materials community. In that vein, I’m a co-organizer of this year’s Materials Innovation Plenary, “Innovation in Materials […]
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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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Manufacturing Innovation for the Common Man – Laser Paint Stripping (Part 2 of 8)
So I’m not what you would call a handy person around the house and I generally pass on home projects unless forced to act. In fact I pretty much epitomize the quote “If a man says he will fix it he will. There is no need to remind him every six months about it.” I […]
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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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