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Successfully Machine Undercuts with BIG KAISER’s Lollipop from Sphinx

·April 18, 2019

Hoffman Estates, IL – BIG KAISER, a leader in premium high-precision tooling systems and solutions for the metalworking industries, introduces the Lollipop from Sphinx, the newest addition to its end…

Manufacturing

Portable Training for Manufacturing Skills | Lab Midwest

·April 17, 2019

Reprinted with permission: As manufacturing continues to grow in the US, schools and training centers are looking for ways to educate more learners for a growing number of job vacancies.…

3D Printing

Latest Innovations in 3D printing | proto labs

·April 16, 2019

By: Stephen Dyson, Special Operations Manager - Protolabs While 3D printing started off as a bit of an oddity in the world of prototype manufacture, it has fast become a…

Manufacturing

A Next Act in Manufacturing: Building Tomorrow’s Workforce

·March 17, 2019

Connecticut’s manufacturing industry is estimated to need between 25,000 and 35,000 new skilled workers for the state’s 4,100 manufacturers in the next 2 decades. Connecticut State Colleges and Universities, private…

Workforce

The Undermanagement Epidemic 2019 | Bruce Tulgan

·March 12, 2019

By Bruce Tulgan New Haven, CT, 3.11.2019 – The undermanagement epidemic persists. And it is hiding in plain sight in nearly every workplace. It may be harder now than ever…

Manufacturing

TMA Member Profile: Rich Hoster President, Smith and Richardson, Inc.

·March 10, 2019

Rich Hoster - President, Smith & Richardson, Inc. - TMA 2019 Board Chairman By Fran Eaton for the Technology & Manufacturing Association of Illinois News Bulletin – reprinted with permission…

STEM Education

ActivePuzzle Funded in 48 hours on Kickstarter

·March 1, 2019

TEL AVIV – March 1, 2019: ActivePuzzle, an innovative technology company that develops imaginative and educational products was funded on Kickstarter in just 48 hours. ActivePuzzle teaches STEM concepts, logic and problem-solving…

Robotics

VEX 2019 World Championship Qualifiers at New Hampshire Events

·February 27, 2019

By David Kelly, Founder at Robotics Maker Space, LLC This past weekend at Manchester Community College (MCC) robotics teams from New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and New York competed…

Manufacturing

Anyone Can Be a Great Coaching-Style Manager – It’s All About the Fundamentals

·February 26, 2019

By Bruce Tulgan, Most managers become managers by first being great at something else: engineering, machining, you name it. If their employer is lucky, that person also happens to be…

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