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In 2021, be thankful for your issues list
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In 2021, be thankful for your issues list

For people like us – people who build physical products – our jobs look different today than we ever could ...

Anna-Katrina Shedletsky November 23, 2021

Change Notice: A fireside chat with the VP of Operations from Density
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Change Notice: A fireside chat with the VP of Operations from Density

Instrumental October 25, 2021

Change Notice: The future of hardware integrity in automotive fleets, from manufacturing to end of life
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Change Notice: The future of hardware integrity in automotive fleets, from manufacturing to end of life

Instrumental August 25, 2021

Stop wasting 99% of your hardware investment with Images Streams
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Stop wasting 99% of your hardware investment with Images Streams

Instrumental June 24, 2021

The Top 3 Takeaways From The 2021 State of NPI Survey
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The Top 3 Takeaways From The 2021 State of NPI Survey

Instrumental June 19, 2021

5 ways to de-risk production ramp in 2021
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5 ways to de-risk production ramp in 2021

Chris Li, former Amazon Engineering Lead May 24, 2021

Screws vs glues in product design, assembly, and repair
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Screws vs glues in product design, assembly, and repair

Instrumental May 20, 2021

The future of automated optical inspection systems
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The future of automated optical inspection systems

AOI or automated optical inspection systems were first developed in the early 1990s at a time when electronics manufacturing was ...

Instrumental May 6, 2021

Getting back to the factory floor in 2021
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Getting back to the factory floor in 2021

Instrumental April 2, 2021

Choosing the best CAD software for product design
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Choosing the best CAD software for product design

Instrumental March 24, 2021

Manufacturing Terms Every Mechanical Engineer Should Know
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Manufacturing Terms Every Mechanical Engineer Should Know

Manufacturing is an industry filled with jargon and abbreviations. More experienced engineers can easily navigate the acronym-filled waters, but if ...

Instrumental February 23, 2021

Pantone and Plastic: The Challenges of Color Matching in Product Design and Manufacturing
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Pantone and Plastic: The Challenges of Color Matching in Product Design and Manufacturing

Pantone recently announced their colors of the year for 2021: Ultimate Gray, a soothing and shadowy steel, and Illuminating, a ...

Chris Li, former Amazon Engineering Lead December 29, 2020

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