Boeing’s Renton plant builds 737 narrow-body jets at the rate of 42 per month, and climbing. Here’s how the workers do it.
How to Build a Boeing 737 Jet
Electron beam additive manufacturing builds and repairs tooling dies
Sciaky Inc., Chicago, reports that its Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing (Ebam) technology helped a major automotive manufacturer cut significant time and cost from building and repairing several tooling and stamping dies.
Soft magnetic steel combines low coercivity with high permeability and resistivity
Carpenter Technology Corp., Wyomissing, Pa., has developed Cartech Hypocore, a new soft magnetic steel that offers performance benefits between those found in Carpenter’s high-performance Hipercore family of high-cobalt magnetic alloys, and those of commercial silicon-based alloys.
Finding alloys to form bulk metallic glass
Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Cambridge, Mass., in collaboration with colleagues from Duke and Yale universities, recently developed a method to predict which alloys might form a bulk metallic glass.
New wetsuit inspired by beavers
Inspired by beavers, engineers at MIT fabricated fur-like, rubbery pelts and used them to identify a mechanism by which air is trapped between individual hairs when the pelts are plunged into liquid.