Mercer Engineering Research Center (MERC) is a non-profit applied research and engineering unit of Mercer University, a private university founded in 1833. In 1987, MERC was established under the Mercer University School of Engineering to provide locally available engineering and scientific services, and critical specialized technical skills. MERC maintains a highly qualified professional staff, complex […]
Read More »Gain the Advantage: Add Client Value & Increase Your Competativeness In an industry where hundreds of companies are vying for the same business, making your organization stand out is crucial to business growth and success. With so many options, companies are selecting where their business will go based on best overall value and commitment, not just cost. […]
Read More »Author: Ken Anderson, Vice President, Universal Synaptics Corporation For those in the avionics repair and maintenance business, the acronyms NFF (No Fault Found) and CND (Cannot Duplicate) are unfortunately, all too familiar terms. After several decades of frustration with this illusive phenomenon, it continues to consume an enormous amount of test and diagnostic effort […]
Read More »The Joint Technology Exchange Group (JTEG) principals have reviewed and scored the 70 abstract and quad chart submittals for the 2015 Maintenance Innovation Challenge competition. Congratulations to the following 6 finalists that have been selected to present at the Maintenance Innovation Challenge on Monday, 7 December from 3:00-4:30 pm: Phased Array Ultrasonic Testing for Increased […]
Read More »The Department of Defense (DoD) aviation communities require a Joint Intermittence Tester (JIT) to detect intermittent faults in Weapons Replaceable Assemblies (WRA)/Line Replaceable Assemblies (LRU). These faults are sometimes referred to as: No Fault Found (NFF), Can Not Duplicate (CND), No Evidence of Failure (NEOF) and Nothing to Report (NTF). Intermittent faults are now one […]
Read More »This year the 16th International Conference sponsored by the Rapid Product Development Association of South Africa (RAPDASA) will be held from Nov 4-6th in Pretoria South Africa. For the additive manufacturing community this is the premiere event in South Africa and boasts of strong technical presentations and very informative discussion on a wide range of […]
Read More »The Industry Defense Manufacturing Excellence Award – 2015 Since 1995, the National Center for Advanced Technologies (NCAT), acting as the agent for the Associations and Societies involved in the Multi-Association Industry Affordability Task Force, has sought to recognize an individual and small working groups/teams in the defense manufacturing community for making outstanding contributions to furthering […]
Read More »The Navy and Marine Corps have found aircraft wiring issues to be among the top contributors of aircraft performance degradation and downtime. There are many false removals of avionic systems due to faulty wires and degraded connectors, up to 80-90% in some cases. Frequent removal and reinstallation of avionics can cause the aircraft connectors to […]
Read More »NCMS will present the 2015 Michigan Capitol Robotics Day Wednesday October 7, at the Michigan state capitol building. Don’t miss miss this opportunity to meet Michigan STEM students and their instructors as they exhibit robots, drones, and submersibles at the State Capitol. FIRST robotics, LEGO and VEX teams will be on hand as well as […]
Read More »Labor Cost Tracking in Small to Medium Manufacturing (SMM) using Data Analytics Come listen to Dr. Bala Deshpande, industry leader in Predictive Analytics for Manufacturing and Author of Predictive Analytics and Data Mining (2014, Morgan Kaufmann). Learn new data analytics methodologies for Labor Cost Tracking in small to medium manufacturing (SMM) using open source and […]
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