Tag: production

September 23, 2021

Airbus will start delivering all aircraft from its U.S. Manufacturing Facility in Mobile, Alabama with Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) on board later this year. The initiative is a further step toward fulfilling Airbus’ commitment to carbon-neutral growth in the aviation […]

September 17, 2021

COVID-19 sent shockwaves to the global supply chain as the virus caused thousands of manufacturers to pause operations. Some experts predicted the supply chain would fully recover by the spring and summer of 2021, but due to the surge of […]

September 17, 2021

Global shortages, increasing customer demand, mass customization, and globalization are challenges that are getting even harder for manufacturers to solve. These challenges are only worsened by many manufacturers’ reliance on the status quo (the idea that manual processes, bad data, […]

August 19, 2021

The IHS Markit/CIPS Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) value for May 2021 demonstrated that UK manufacturing is growing at its fastest rate in almost 30 years. Manufacturers must increase production to capitalise on the record growth in new orders. However, […]

August 13, 2021

“The key problem we’ve identified, is that improving thermal conductivity alone is not good enough,” said Austin thermal fluids researcher Vaibhav Bahadur. “You need a more holistic understanding of materials to meet electrical, thermal and mechanical requirements.” Nano-composites are under […]

July 27, 2021

Features include gate oxide stability, according to the company, which “observed no shift in threshold voltage even after 100,000 pulses in repetitive un-clamped inductive switching [R-UIS] tests. R-UIS tests also indicated avalanche ruggedness and stability in other parameters. They also […]

July 27, 2021

XGS 16000 is a 16Mpixel global shutter image sensor for factory automation by On Semiconductor. Consuming 1W at 65frame/s, it fits into standard 29 x 29mm industrial cameras with C-Mount lenses – it has a 1:1 square aspect ratio. It […]

July 26, 2021

Boeing Co.’s next space launch this week will give it a shot at proving it can still pull off big missions. The aerospace giant is set on Friday to again launch its Starliner space capsule without crew on board, a […]

July 26, 2021

It says scientists will spend years studying a treasure trove of valuable data captured by 1300 experiments carried out by the satellite, covering radiation hazards, space weather, equipment degradation and flight manoeuvrability. The craft – described as being roughly the […]

July 21, 2021

The global semiconductor shortage is disrupting production in the German car industry just as demand rebounds strongly from the pandemic-induced downturn. Automakers Daimler and BMW said this week that the lack of chips had forced assembly lines to slow down […]