Automation may be one of the more polarizing topics in America right now. For millions of American workers, especially those in non-skilled jobs, automation is probably seen as a threat, not an improvement, to their quality of life. Many jobs ...
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are over and you still do not have a gift for your favorite engineer? Have no fear, we’ve asked our very own MISUMI engineers for their favorite tech gadgets and smartphone applications. They’ve recommended items ...
We’ve covered what IoT is, security, and even manufacturing. To conclude this series, we will cover Smart Cities and the technologies that are in use today. A smart city uses IoT to gather and analyze data from connected devices such ...
We’ve covered what is IoT, security and now onto manufacturing. The internet of things has not only affected consumers and developed new organizations. It has affected the manufacturing industry in a variety of ways. The industrial revolution started with steam ...
Briefly, we skimmed the surface of the Internet of Things in a previous post (read it here!) but for the next series will dive deeper into the effects and risks of IoT. In this post, we will talk about the ...
This week we catch up with our friends at MAKEiT, Inc on their project Bigfoot as well as their new technology. Check out how MISUMI Aluminum Extrusion, bearings and shafts gave them the precision they needed to create their 3D printed ...
The most common and long-established method of decorative plating on steel is copper-nickel-chrome plating also known as ‘chrome plating’. In recent years, nickel-chrome plating (semi-bright + bright plating) is also common for its superior corrosion resistance and aesthetic properties. These ...
Electroless plating is a chemical plating technique used to deposit a layer of metal plating without using an outside electrical energy source to charge the plating bath. Unlike electroplating where metal is deposited on objects by reduction precipitation using a ...
“Anodizing is an electrochemical process that converts the metal surface into a decorative, durable, corrosion-resistant, anodic oxide finish.” -Aluminum Anodizers Council Anodizing is one of the most environmentally friendly processes in the coating industry. Since it is not a metal ...
Strength and Shape Design Considerations After looking at ways to use different plastics instead of metal in last week’s post, we will examine shape and material in this week’s post. Weight reduction is a design task assigned to many engineers, ...
