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TEN ACTIONS NEEDED NOW TO BOOST US INNOVATION: REPORT
The Competitive and Innovative Capacity of the United States outlines 10 key action items that policymakers need to undertake or support. The underlying assumption is that it’s up to government action...
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LEAD RECALL PUTS THE SPOTLIGHT ON DURATA AND ST. JUDE MEDICAL’S OPTIM INSULATION
Posted by: MedCityNews.com; Author: Arundhati Parmar The Class I recall of the two Riata defibrillator leads from St. Jude Medical (NYSE:STJ) highlighted the issue of lead abrasion and insulation, but...
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OBAMA WILL UNVEIL $1-BILLION NATIONAL MANUFACTURING INNOVATION NETWORK...
Posted by: Manufacturingnews.com By Richard A. McCormack editor@manufacturingnews.com Tucked deep — very deep — within the Obama administration’s Fiscal Year 2013 budget submission to Congress is a...
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RECASTING FAILURES AS ‘DATA’ IS KEY WHEN DESIGNING NEW PRODUCTS
Posted by: Smartplanet.com Author: Reena Jana Start-ups and corporations seeking to create the next profitable, innovative product should rethink their attitudes toward failure, suggests Tina...
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BETTER PRODUCTS THROUGH COMPUTATIONAL PROCESSING AND SIMULATION
Author: Carl D. Kolts, VP of Sales and Business Development, VEXTEC Corporation Every company manufacturing a commercial product is focused on two things – growing revenue and reducing costs. To some...
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STRUCTURAL DESIGN CONCEPTS: OVERVIEW OF SAFE LIFE AND DAMAGE TOLERANCE
Note: This post is the first in a series of blogs exploring industry-recognized structural design principles. This material originated in an internal white paper written by Dr. Robert Tryon, Chief...
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STRUCTURAL DESIGN CONCEPTS: SAFE LIFE DESIGN
The philosophy of safe life design is the preferred method for designing components for durable operation in the automotive industry. Under this method, the structure is operated at a stress far below...
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STRUCTURAL DESIGN CONCEPTS: DAMAGE TOLERANT DESIGN
The damage tolerance approach to design has been employed by the aerospace industry for decades. In contrast to the safe life design method, damage tolerance explicitly accounts the fatigue crack...
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STRUCTURAL DESIGN CONCEPTS: SAFE LIFE, DAMAGE TOLERANCE AND VEXTEC’S VIRTUAL...
Over the last few weeks, VEXTEC has explored the two main philosophies of modern structural design: safe life design and damage tolerant design. Today we share with you a summary of these methods,...
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THE NEED FOR SPEED
In the race to get products to market, does risk-mitigation get enough time in the winner’s circle? What do aerospace, medical device manufacturers, and auto racing all have in common? Answer: the...
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