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Let’s skip the textbook definitions. When mechatronics engineers come to me looking to shave weight off...
You just engineered a brilliant, lightweight housing for a new aerospace device. You specified AZ31B...
There is a very specific, blinding white flash that happens right before a $150,000 5-axis mill is completely...
Last month, I watched a junior machinist scrap a $400 block of AZ31B magnesium. He treated it like standard...
I had a hardware founder on a call last week who was just about ready to pull the plug on his new product...
Let’s talk about what Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO) really looks like on the shop floor these...
As a manufacturing engineer, one of the most frequent points of failure I see when hardware startups...
I spend half my week reviewing CAD files for commercial drones, and the story is almost always the same....
As a hardware manufacturing consultant, the most common panicked email I get from startup founders usually...
I’ve lost count of how many times a client has sent us a CAD file for a complex enclosure, expecting...
Since I started in the custom parts industry back in 2001, I’ve seen countless brilliant engineering...
If you’ve ever had a carbide end mill snap deep inside a 316L block on a Friday afternoon, you know that...
