What Will Manufacturing Look Like in 2021? The 5 Top Trends to Watch by Asif Moghal From disruption-ready supply chains to personalized products and intelligent automation, here are the manufacturing trends that will define 2021 and beyond.
Sustainability Solving the Plastic Problem Is More Than a Global Mandate—It’s an Opportunity by Zoé Bezpalko
Sustainability How a Solar Light From Down Under Fights Energy Poverty Where It’s Needed Most by Drew Turney An Australian charity is using design smarts, community involvement, and partnership to combat one of the biggest but lesser-known forms of privation: energy poverty.
Manufacturing Thanks to Big Data in Agriculture, BIM Makes Its Way to the (Coffee) Farm by Carlos Tomasini For the best brews, according to Colombia’s Blue Bird Coffee, combine altitude, sun, shade, four generations of expertise in agriculture—and digitalization and big data.
Construction Prefab Construction’s Benefits Grow With Design for Manufacture and Assembly by Markkus Rovito Design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) allows parts of construction projects to take place off-site, which can reduce project length, cost, material use, pollution, and worker injuries.
The Real Life How a Machining CEO Uses Business Continuity Management to Help Fight COVID-19 by Kimberly Holland In times of crisis, business continuity management can bridge former and new realities. Here, one machining CEO describes the on-the-fly agility of her essential business during COVID-19.
Manufacturing Injection-Mold Cooling and Generative Design Save Panasonic Engineers’ Sanity by Yasuo Matsunaka A new Panasonic initiative uses generative design to automatically design injection mold–cooling water pipes, thus greatly reducing the burden on human designers.
