(Additive Manufacturing, 8/7/18) The growing availability of hybrid machines that combine additive and subtractive processes offers enormous potential for design innovation and enable manufacturers to produce components never before possible. But with that potential also comes greater complexity in the manufacturing process, and more opportunities for machine crashes and errors. CGTech’s Vericut 8.2 software provides…
Outlook Positive for Connecticut’s Defense Industry
(Association of Defense Communities, 8/8/18) After an outstanding performance in 2017, the outlook for defense contractors and their suppliers in Connecticut remains strong in the coming years, according to the new annual report from the state’s Office of Military Affairs. Connecticut companies received $23 billion in defense contracts in 2017, the…
CCAT Hosts NASA, Aeroject and Gunnery Boarding School
This week CCAT hosted a number of visitors including students from The Gunnery Boarding School in Washington, CT and engineers from NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and Aeroject Rocketdyne in Los Angeles. The students from The Gunnery inquired about CCAT’s Advanced Manufacturing Center as they enter their second year in…
WorkinCT: Steel manufacturer talks about educating CT’s future workforce
(Fox 61, 7/31/18) When Joe Vrabely helped to start Atlantic Steel and Processing in Waterbury in 1999, his goal was to live up to the name ASAP and bring products to his customers as soon as possible. Almost twenty years later, his company is still turning steel into pieces for…
The New Decentralized Model of Secure Manufacturing
(Industry Today, 7/31/18) As more and more industries are realizing the benefits of additive manufacturing (AM), the transportation, distribution, and security of the needed digital files has become a major topic of consideration. The products of AM are only as viable as the integrity of the digital files and the printers that create them. The Department of…
CCAT Seminar on Additive Manufacturing on Aug. 9
Among the breadth of talents from the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT) Advanced Manufacturing Center comes an abundance of opportunities to learn via educational seminar from its own experts. CCAT’s Additive Manufacturing Research and Applications Senior Engineer Jeff Crandall will instruct a seminar on Thursday, Aug. 9 focused on…
Faced with dearth of replacement part suppliers, Air Force aims to make itself more self-sufficient
(Federal News Radio, 7/31/18) The Air Force’s aircraft fleet is getting on in years. One problem with that is that replacement parts are becoming more expensive and more difficult to find, since many of the original manufacturers don’t even exist anymore. But the service is launching a two-year pilot project…
CCAT Joins Talk on How Cross-Sector Collaboration Helps Our Communities Thrive
MetroHartford Alliance in partnership with the United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut, will explore how communities are collaborating to solve workforce and income-based issues at the ‘Working Cities, Thriving Communities’ breakfast on Wednesday, Aug. 8 starting 7:30 a.m. at the Marriott Hartford Downtown. Moderated by David Radcliffe, Director or Connecticut…
States Sue To Block Downloads Of 3D-Printed Gun Instructions
(ATT.net, 7/31/18) Concerned about the potential for readily available downloadable instructions to make 3D-printed guns, a group of state attorneys general has filed suit to block a Trump administration settlement with an organization Defense Distributed, a Texas non-profit. Until June 29, the federal government had maintained that the printer files and tutorials…
Level One Robotics leaked car vendor data
(Enterprise Times, 7/24/18) Level One Robotics has leaked 157 Gigabytes of customer data, including sensitive documents, to the web. The data belongs to more than 100 manufacturing companies. Those affected include Tesla, BM. ThyssenKrupp, VM and Ford. The leak was discovered by security vendor UpGuard. In its report detailing the breach…