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Dec 18
NFPA 101: Life Safety Code
One of the most important responsibilities that engineers have is to provide for the safety, health, and welfare of the public. Throughout history, especially in the case of fires, the well-being of building occupants has not always been the most important topic or... Read more
Dec 17
CUBRC Sphere Relocation
CUBRC’s Aeroscience team has completed a major milestone in the development of its newest capability. Over last weekend, the team moved the large (65’ diameter) vacuum sphere a few hundred yards to its new location just to the North of the current LENS family of... Read more
Dec 11
Why Manufacturing Automation Needs the Human Touch
Many manufacturers are looking to automation as a way to compete with other parts of the world with lower labor costs and less stringent regulations. And while automation is part of the future, as we saw in a previous article about the “dark factory,” there will... Read more
Dec 4
The “Next Normal” – Sensors, Joysticks, and Humans
In a previous post, we looked at what happens if you need to operate your plant with fewer people in the workplace, and in another, we considered how manufacturing can provide more work-from-home options. Looking at the emerging reality, it seems that success is most... Read more
Nov 27
Remote Flexibility
Offering Work-from-Home Flexibility to Plant-Floor Workers Many employees feel squeezed between a need to earn a living, and the need to keep themselves and their families safe. The answer for many employers of white-collar workers was to allow (or require) employees... Read more
Nov 20
Dark Factory
Is the “Dark Factory” the Future of Manufacturing? – Part 1 By Tom Gilmartin, PE Recently many employers have had to limit the number of people on their premises. Some may have wondered – what would it be like to have the whole plant automated to the... Read more
Nov 13
How to Deal with Data Fog
Operational data is cheap, but management time is not By Tom Gilmartin, PE In a previous article, we talked about “data fog” – the vast cloud of data emitted by current sensory devices, that can obscure the metrics you really need to measure and manage. So how do you... Read more
Nov 6