Manufacturing in Growth and Transition

Michael J. Hicks, PhD, is the director of the Center for Business and Economic Research and the George and Frances Ball distinguished professor of...

How Do You Gauge Success?

HDI Instruments’ Will Condon speaks to the importance of field tests, certifications, and meeting customer needs Will Condon is a project manager for HDI Instruments,...

Bridging the Knowledge Gap: Part 1 of 2

Paul Ruzicka is the chief engineer for Xylem Inc. He has been in the pump engineering field for nearly forty years, starting at Goulds...

Flexible Manufacturing Means Sustainable Manufacturing

For today’s manufacturers, the shift is on from mass production to mass customization. Dr. Ola L. A. Harrysson is co-director of the Center for...

Running Smooth Even in Seawater

Thordon Bearings recently provided water-lubricated elastomeric polymer bearings for installation to cooling water pumps commissioned for a major power plant expansion project by the...

Sizing Matters

As pump operators know, valve sizing works on the Goldilocks principle—neither too large nor too small, but just right. On a recent episode of...

Bridging the Knowledge Gap: Part 2 of 2

Paul Ruzicka is the chief engineer for Xylem Inc. and is currently managing the Xylem Engineering team in Seneca Falls, New York. To read...

Are Engineering Careers Still the Way to Go?

Dr. Steve Mackay has worked in engineering throughout Australia, Europe, Africa, and North America for the past thirty-five years as a design and commissioning...

Going the Distance

As industrial communication has shifted from wired Ethernet to wireless RF and broadband connections, Digi International has led the way in addressing the technical...

Taking the fight to forever chemicals

When Dr. Fajer Mushtaq turned on the tap as a child in Delhi, one question always loomed: was the water safe? Today, that same...