Category: Manufacturing Industry
New Metal Allows Electricity to Flow While Blocking Heat
The properties of physics are hardly known to be fickle. The laws that govern electricity, magnetism and thermodynamics are, quite simply, unyielding. But that doesn’t mean there can never be exceptions to these rules. Science is about new discoveries, after all. Recently, a team of researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory […]
What’s New in Manufacturing in 2017?
We are already almost a month into 2017! And since we have already made our New Year’s resolutions, we are now turning our focus to what 2017 has in store for the manufacturing industry. As precision spring and wire form manufacturers who serve OEMs in a variety of industries, we are always keeping an eye […]
How 3D Printing Can Help Spring Manufacturers
3D printing had a pretty quick rise, with units starting out in the thousands of dollars. Now you can get one on Amazon or at The Home Depot for just a few hundred dollars. At first, they were the talk of many industries, with people claiming that would severely disrupt, replace or even put an […]
Tips for Keeping Manufacturing Costs Low
When it comes to manufacturing, production cost is one of the top issues that businesses have. Keeping costs low allows businesses to maintain better profit margins, and to better serve their customers and employees by reinvesting the savings back into their company. While there are specific costs that are hard to control, there are still […]
How Can We Get Future Generations Excited about Manufacturing?
Getting the next generation exciting about manufacturing can be difficult. There has been a stigma attached to the industry that paints it as a lower level job. We all know this is not the case (there’s no doubt about it, creating an intricate spring design requires thought, skill and patience). But how do we […]
Manufacturing is Coming Back to the US
Is manufacturing making a comeback in the US? As precision spring manufacturers We decided to take a closer look at the industry that we serve. Here’s what we found out. The State of Manufacturing in the US For the last several years, the manufacturing sector in the US has been growing at a fairly […]
What the Affordability of 3D Printing Means for Manufacturers
When 3D printers first hit the market, they were hardly meant for the average consumer. With price tags that were no lower than a few thousand dollars (and all the way up to $500,000), these neat little pieces of manufacturing technology were purely meant to revolutionize the manufacturing industry, not replace it. Consumers can now […]
Are Manufacturing Jobs Coming Back to America?
Whether working with metals, plastics or precision wire products, manufacturing employees were once the core of the American workforce. Although the times have changed, and the workforce has significantly shifted towards various services industries, manufacturing has proven to be alive and well in the U.S. Back from the Brink Over the years, the U.S. has […]
The Top Manufacturing Cities in the U.S.
Manufacturing is back in the United States. Ever since the recession eight years ago, the economy, lead by of some of the top manufacturing cities in the U.S., has been on a steady incline. Some cities have boomed, while others have merely limped along. Overall, the state of the U.S. manufacturing economy continues to have […]