According to Norman Noble, Cleveland, Ohio, Design for Manufacturability and Concurrent Engineering can cut in half costs and time-to-market, while adding significant improvements to quality and delivery.
Biodegradable drinking cups or vegetable wrapping foil: the bioplastic known as polylactic acid (PLA) is already a part of our everyday lives.
Grede will work with Michigan Technological University, others to bring thin-wall ductile iron castings to high-volume production.
Jeol USA, Peabody, Mass., introduces the 7000 series of Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopes with ultrahigh resolution and low-kV/low-vacuum operation for imaging and nano-analysis of structures, surface details, and magnetic samples.
Cadence Design Systems Inc., San Jose, Calif., and Applied Materials Inc., Santa Clara, Calif., are collaborating on a development program to optimize the chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP) process through silicon characterization and modeling for advanced-node designs at 14 nm and below.
