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What’s In Your Garage?
The idea of the garage as an incubator for start-up businesses is as American as hot dogs, baseball and apple pie (although I like apple cobbler better). From Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniack,
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A Whole Lotta Training Going On
I read three daily newspapers and subscribe to a news aggregator service, so I feel that I have my finger on the pulse of not only daily events, but trends over time (at least
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Don’t Bet on The Dinosaurs
There’s nothing I love as much as a paradox. So there’s a lot for me to get excited about with America’s current manufacturing paradox, which is whether U.S. manufacturing is The Next Big Thing
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Manufacturing Gangnam Style
Rethink Robotics, the firm that designed and manufactured Baxter the famous industrial robot, has met its match. Robotis’ Bioloid, an educational DIY robotics set, has developed a new, hipper cousin to Baxter that dances
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Through The Looking Glass
In the 2012 movie, “The Avengers”, Tony Stark, aka Ironman, uses a 3-D hologram to manufacture weaponry. And although many movie-goers thought this was pure fantasy, the scene’s similarity to next generation manufacturing is
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Ready, Set, Jump
Sometimes when I am in a conversation, I feel as if I must get a “running start” when I want to explain a complicated topic. What this means is, I want to prepare the
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What’s in Your (Corporate) Wallet?
American employers spent $156.2B on training in 2011, states the 2012 State of the Industry Report by the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), with small companies, generally, spending more in terms of
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The Fourth Dimension to 3-D Printing
On January 8, 2013, The Washington Post newspaper posted an article about 3D printing and its enormous potential to change the way products are manufactured. Noting the 3D printer’s small size (that of a microwave)
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