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Expanding Opportunities for Minority and Women-Owned Businesses

Expanding Opportunities for Minority and Women-Owned Businesses

The Export-Import Bank of the United States offers a number of tools to assist all U.S. manufacturers, and works to ensure that these opportunities are readily available to businesses owned by minorities and women. Watch video to learn more.

How Extended Reality Is Improving Maintenance and Training

Unanticipated and disruptive events have made strategies that optimize the digital thread more important than ever before.

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Why Get LED High Bay Lighting for Warehouse Operations?

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Channeling Resources to Ensure Machine Uptime

Assessing the right metrics and assembling the necessary tools are critical.

Sheet metal worker Carey Mercer assembles ductwork at Contractors Sheet Metal on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021, in New York. The construction industry is fighting to recruit more women into a sector that faces chronic labor shortages. As spending on infrastructure rises, construction firms will need to hire at least 430,000 new skilled laborers in 2021, according to an analysis of federal data by the Associated Builders and Contractors. Right now, only 4% of construction laborers in the U.S. are women, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics

'Lean In' Circles Help Women in Trades Navigate Bias

About 700 tradeswomen are participating the program, designed to help them navigate persistent bias and harassment on construction sites.

In this June 2, 2021 photo made available by NASA, technicians prepare Boeing's CST-100 Starliner for the company's Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) in the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. On Friday, Aug. 13, 2021, Boeing and NASA officials said the capsule is grounded for months and possibly even until next year because of a vexing valve problem.

Boeing Astronaut Capsule Grounded by Valve Issue

Boeing's performance is in stark contrast to that of SpaceX, NASA's other contracted taxi service.

Increase Efficiency and Service Life in CVD Process Control

Designed initially for leveling in CVD processes but useful for process control in any equipment requiring precise parallelism, the ParallelPro measures offset distance, parallelism and temperature.

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Exploring Fireproofing Options For Facility Managers

Get an in-depth comparison between intumescent paint and cementitious coatings and their best-fit applications.

Tips to Help Your Industrial Air Compressor Withstand the Summer Heat

When temperatures increase in spring and summer, a neglected compressor will start to show signs of abandonment.

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Limiting Downtime Disasters

Data shows that 82 percent of companies have experienced at least one unplanned period of downtime over the past three years - costing upwards of $250K/hour.

Lumber is piled at a housing construction site, Thursday, June 24, 2021, in Middleton, Mass. Home construction in the U.S. rose a strong 6.3% in June, another big swing in what has been an up-and-down year so far.

U.S. Home Construction Jumps 6.3% in June

Home construction starts rose 12.6% in the West and 9.7% in the South.

Ultralife Corporation has expanded beyond its commercial and military battery business to include custom engineering design and services, tactical communications systems and a wide range of power accessories for global government and defense markets.

The Importance of Reliable Power in Lights-Out Manufacturing

Any endeavor to build a factory that works entirely with robotic workforce runs into the issue of maintenance.