tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7484943102107739496.post6593542471376762134..comments2023-03-01T07:46:47.230-05:00Comments on Pursuit of Unorthodox Ideas: Eight Innovations that are changing the manufacturing industrySK Guptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08212054102534056561noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7484943102107739496.post-77135567019083886232013-06-25T15:07:30.912-04:002013-06-25T15:07:30.912-04:00In the coming years I believe micro manufacturing ...In the coming years I believe <a href="http://www.deringerney.com/micro-manufacturing/" rel="nofollow">micro manufacturing</a> as well as 3D printing to come out on top. Both of these applications provide almost endless possibilities for manufacturers. I am extremely excited to see the next major advancements to come out of that field. <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16450774443008411298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7484943102107739496.post-73178091871070708392013-06-19T00:56:24.416-04:002013-06-19T00:56:24.416-04:00Thanks for sharing this useful information with us...Thanks for sharing this useful information with us. This is very informative blog and I glad to read it. I appreciate your analysis and tips.<br /><br />Keep it up.<br /><br />Regards,<br /><a href="http://www.atcomaart.com/Home.aspx" rel="nofollow"><b>Industrial Products Manufacturers</b></a><br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14177557645388370058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7484943102107739496.post-49236093273356795152013-05-29T17:42:41.850-04:002013-05-29T17:42:41.850-04:00Hey Josh,
You may want to read the following two a...Hey Josh,<br />You may want to read the following two articles. The authors developed a customization tool that will give you the composite specification based on the user requirements.<br /><br />1. Nandi, S. and Z. Siddique. Composite Material Customization System. in Proceedings of the ASME 2009 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. 2009. San Diego, California. <br />2. Nandi, S. and Z. Siddique, A Grammatical Approach for Laminated Composite Material Customization. Journal of Concurrent Engineering, 2011.<br /><br />The following article is also interesting:<br /><br />Edwards, K.L., C.A. Abel, and M.F. Ashby, Optimal selection of composite materials in mechanical engineering design., in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Aided Design in Composite Material Technology. Jun 1994, Computational Mechanics Publ, Southampton, Engl: Southampton, UK.<br /><br />For basic reading on composite you may want to check out the following book.<br /><br />Barbero, E.J., Introduction to Composite Material Design. 2010, Philadelphia, PA: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12628146870221633976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7484943102107739496.post-43222803009095304512013-04-22T13:47:27.528-04:002013-04-22T13:47:27.528-04:00Hey Sagar, I'm pretty interested in seeing wha...Hey Sagar, I'm pretty interested in seeing what sorts of properties and applications these composites have. Do you have any links/references for basic reading describing their potential?Joshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13036326292922825738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7484943102107739496.post-81518413327848194112013-04-15T23:39:45.063-04:002013-04-15T23:39:45.063-04:00A very interesting article. I can’t more than agre...A very interesting article. I can’t more than agree with you on how these innovations have changed the way we operate. Yet, to cater to the growing demands, one of the significant challenges today is hybridizing the innovations you highlighted. Combining 3D printing and web-based manufacturing is a good example to accelerate the process of product realization. Expanding the scope of polymer composites with 3D printing is yet another area to explore. Hybridizing manufacturing processes to cater for green manufacturing must be considered as well. As we celebrate the ground breaking innovations we should continue our quest for impact oriented solutions and continuous improvement. Maheshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10291767075543138393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7484943102107739496.post-7557980993197984892013-04-15T20:36:01.447-04:002013-04-15T20:36:01.447-04:00Interesting point! I never really had much exposu...Interesting point! I never really had much exposure to CAD or 3D modelling through my public education. No Autocad, no 3DS Max, nothing! I had to pursue that stuff outside of school. It seems to me that even introducing kids to use Blender or some simpler 3D program to make their own toys or artwork would be excellent. Or, better yet, what about actual design challenges such as making your own pinewood derby car on a 3D printer?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17725433810354718307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7484943102107739496.post-16895734455225390372013-04-15T14:36:58.198-04:002013-04-15T14:36:58.198-04:00I am particularly enthusiastic about 3D printing. ...I am particularly enthusiastic about 3D printing. The emerging reality and aspects of 'Crowd Sourced', and more importantly 'Crowd Tested' designs that accelerate the process of coming up with and experimenting with a good design is incredibly valuable. These have significant implications on one of the other questions posed earlier, namely, low cost educational robots and unmanned systems. <br /><br />One 'open question' to all, is how to introduce these to young students at an early enough age to make a life impact. Clearly to my mind, elementary school is where more access and exposure is useful. So the next question, is how to get more educators and parents interested.<br /><br />ElanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7484943102107739496.post-56250943777313603862013-04-13T19:57:06.861-04:002013-04-13T19:57:06.861-04:00Micro and nano composites are the future of materi...Micro and nano composites are the future of material customization. A future material customization tool will take desired material properties as input and give you a recipe about how you can prepare the desired composite material. There exists some material customization tools for regular composite materials. But they have very limited capability. Extending them for micro and nano composites will be interesting. The future material customization tool can be integrated with CAD modeling software as well to provide more design flexibility.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12628146870221633976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7484943102107739496.post-36061522990361870222013-04-13T11:07:06.040-04:002013-04-13T11:07:06.040-04:003D printing is great. I've had miniature robo...3D printing is great. I've had miniature robot chassis printed out during my M.S. research at UMD. The screw holes to mount motors, boards, etc were "printed" in place which made life easy when mounting electronics. Hurray to no worries about tolerances! 3D printing definitely saved the project both time and money.<br /><br />Also, when I was at RPI for my undergrad, the machine shops on campus had an abrasive water-jet cutter and a CNC plasma cutter that the students could use for free because the setup and maintenance costs were so low! All you had to do was show up with a CAD model and a sheet of material and you were good to go. <br /><br />Oh, and a random side note about water-jet cutters: the food industry uses them to cut dough and paper (without the abrasive material of course!). Apparently the water in a water-jet cutter is moving fast enough that you can cut paper without getting it wet.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17725433810354718307noreply@blogger.com