Features Table of Contents

March 2001

feature articles

not without engineering
Experience is new at the nanoscale, but turning discoveries into technology will still be done the traditional way.

detroit, we are here!
Automakers are using French-born manufacturing software to improve the machining and assembly of their vehicles.

cell culture
Redesigning a plant along a cellular manufacturing concept helped to turn around a troubled company.

smarter factories
The experts are trying to leverage information technology to turn out products not only faster and cheaper, but better, too.

rapid transit to manufacturing
From metered drug delivery to implants and industrial filters, 3-D printers are taking finished goods off the rapid prototyper at production-scale rates.

beyond PDM
As technology changes, so does the definition, and capabilities, of product data management.

but will it hold water?
It was prime real estate, with amillion-gallon tank overhead; engineers were asked to determine the risk.