The pace of technological innovation in industrial manufacturing has accelerated drastically in recent years—for better and for worse. The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to take hold across industry, and driving the most value from it requires manufacturers to unify their operations and... Continue Reading
Originally posted by Jamie Jones Dear MTI Members, I am excited to have been elected to serve as President of the Metal Treating Institute for the next year. It is truly an honor. My company, Solar Atmospheres, is a family-owned, commercial heat treating company, and we have been an MTI... Continue Reading
Lean principles can help your people deploy the right IoT technology at the right time. Manufacturing is evolving. Digitization, improved monitoring and sensors, and faster computing and data networks have produced a new, smart factory environment. This evolution has been described as Industry... Continue Reading
A design engineer at Chevron’s sprawling El Segundo refinery in California used to travel from her office to the plant as many as five times a day to assess operations. Each time, she would bike to where she was needed, suit up with safety gear, assess the problem, and bike back to the... Continue Reading
Manufacturing is a fast-paced industry where success is dependent on timing and quality. That’s why it is crucial to constantly monitor every stage of the production process. Defining and tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) can help manufacturers hone in on what is contributing to,... Continue Reading
The MTI Educational Foundation is excited to announce an update on its year-end fundraising campaign. Between the FNA 2018 donation, MTI matching campaign, and member contributions from the Rick Deibel Challenge, the Foundation has raised $116,200 as of this week. The Foundation would like to... Continue Reading
A smarter approach to industrial safety can increase productivity and uptime, and enhance safety. Industrial safety gets a bad rap as being a detriment to productivity. But what if you could use safety to better understand and improve the performance of your operations? Smart safety can help you... Continue Reading
Andrew Minturn explores how new technologies can revolutionize traditional processes to maximize manufacturers’ potential in an increasingly digitized global marketplace. Even the smallest improvements to a process can have a big impact – both on efficiency and the bottom line.... Continue Reading
ISM manufacturing index leaps to 61.3% in August. U.S. manufacturers are putting the pedal to the metal - except, that is, for suppliers of metals hurt by recent tariffs. The numbers: American manufacturers are on a roll: business conditions surged in August to a 14-year high, according to a... Continue Reading
Tight labor market pushes companies to invest in teaching current workers to do more sophisticated tasks. Dwayne Mace has been a painter and a construction worker throughout his 37 years at Lamar Advertising Co. Now he’s a digital billboard repairman training the next generation of... Continue Reading
Elon Musk had a dream: a car factory that looked more “alien” than human, with hundreds of robots working cooperatively on the assembly line like a hyper-efficient hive. A handful of humans would oversee the work, but for the most part, the manufacturing of Tesla’s Model 3... Continue Reading
The price of energy is an important component to any form of large-scale industrial production. Natural gas has long been a chief source of energy for many industrial users, but it has become even more attractive lately given the sustained low-price environment. Improvements in shale gas... Continue Reading
