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Summer STEM Challenge: Digital water clocks

E&T

Once you have the components assembled, it’s time to test and adjust. Now measure the oscillator cycle time and adjust it. After some earlier versions, we built the Symphony of Siphons using a heptimal counting system for time. Instead of the powers-of-60 sexagesimal time system, this uses powers of 7.

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2022 Engineering Leader Under 40: Rekha Basra, 32

Control Engineering

On these projects, she is able to harness the capacity of controls and automation to improve batch cycle time, safety for the operators and quality of the product. You can always find Rekha with her nose in a book, and she also likes to write poetry and short stories. Non-work-related Activities & Hobbies.

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Keeping up with Manufacturing Changes

Fabricating & Metal Work

The answer lies in better machine tools, but also in a new machining method that’s designed to support optimized quality with improved efficiency, cycle times and cost savings — including when machining tough steels. But competition among carmakers is changing — both within the U.S.

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How does OEE Help in the Food Manufacturing Industry?

Factory Worx

OEE allows you to improve production line availability, performance, and quality by adding sensors to track run time, downtime, and cycle times. Paper-based methods add time, errors, risk, and inefficiency to your business regarding production and quality compliance. BOOK A DEMO. Book a DEMO with our Expert.

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How to Foster Innovation Through a Culture of Education, Mentoring

Mold Making Technology

.” In our world of injection mold building, that usually translates into creating new methods and strategies to produce parts with shorter cycle times, thinner walls, multiple materials, no visible parting line, meticulous surface finishes, no gate vestige and complicated geometries requiring clever mold actions.

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Stepping into Nu Markets with 5-Axis

MEM

On some jobs we’ve taken six or seven setups down to one, which has made a colossal difference to cycle times and ultimately our bottom line and profitability. “ This combination of more efficient, streamlined and accurate machining has been instrumental to NuMachine’s growing order book.

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Presenting Eco-Packaging the Proper Tasty Way

MEM

Knowing the cycle time of the Soken heat sealing process inevitably assists with real time capacity planning, setting targets and the efficient allocation of resources to specific tasks, affirms Byron.