If you've been following this space with any regularity, you know that grassroots efforts among industry and academia are springing up around the
country to help win the hearts, minds and talents of young people in nudging them towards a career in manufacturing. Add another partnership to the list.
Look beyond the obvious, and you may
well find a better way to machine a part,
and serve your customer better. That’s
the lesson illustrated in a gear machining
application at Allied Specialty
Precision Inc. (ASPI), located in Mishawaka, Indiana.
For anyone involved in gear manufacturing, Gear Expo is an absolute treasure. In 2013, it was bigger and more varied than it's been in a decade. With 226 exhibitors covering every conceivable gear-related technology, Gear Expo offered visitors unparalleled opportunities to interview potential
new suppliers.
In the summer of 1974, long before Argo, there was “AZORIAN” -- the
code name for a CIA gambit to recover cargo entombed in a sunken Soviet submarine -- the K-129 -- from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The challenge: exhume -- intact -- a 2,000-ton submarine and its suspicious cargo from 17,000 feet of water.