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John Kosowatz
Publikováno v:
Mechanical Engineering. 144:28-33
GM, Ford, and other automakers are chasing Tesla in the manufacture and marketing of electric vehicles. In turn this is sparking an upheaval the auto industry has not seen since Henry Ford’s Model T, which introduced manufacturing to the assembly l
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John Kosowatz
Publikováno v:
Mechanical Engineering. 144:31-35
Lithium-ion batteries are reliable and getting progressively cheaper, but generally deliver full power capacity for no more than four hours. But for renewable energy to fully replace fossil fuels, energy storage systems must advance to provide long a
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John Kosowatz
Publikováno v:
Mechanical Engineering. 143:28-33
Workers recently finished the last piece of tunnel for Kuala Lumpur’s second metro line, capping a program where autonomous tunneling machines have been operating remotely since 2016. Getting to that point took a poke by a seasoned tunneling direct
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John Kosowatz
Publikováno v:
Mechanical Engineering. 142:30-35
The global supply chain shutdown during the pandemic put the spotlight on China, where the great bulk of the world’s goods are manufactured. The coronavirus highlighted the vulnerabilities of concentrating so much production in one place. Even thou
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John Kosowatz
Publikováno v:
Mechanical Engineering. 142:30-35
Rapid advancements in 3D printing that have fueled the development of advanced manufacturing applications are well-known. New printing techniques and their ability to print objects from a growing variety of materials such as plastics, metals, ceramic
Autor:
John Kosowatz
Publikováno v:
Mechanical Engineering. 142:32-37
Politicians and urban planners have been laying the groundwork to leverage technology to meet the demands of growing urban population and provide greater efficiencies in delivering services in the quest to create smart cities. Some cities are further
Autor:
John Kosowatz
Publikováno v:
Mechanical Engineering. 144:30-31
Demand for engineers across all disciplines, especially mechanical engineering, is very high as U.S. industries look to ramp up what they hope is a post-pandemic economy. They also may enjoy more relaxed working conditions as employers adapt to over
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John Kosowatz
Publikováno v:
Mechanical Engineering. 141:30-35
The concept of autonomously operated ships is beginning to take hold in Europe, Japan and the United States, but primarily in Scandinavia. Some 1,300 kilometers north of Rotterdam, a Norwegian fertilizer company is building what will be the world’s
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John Kosowatz
Publikováno v:
Mechanical Engineering. 141:26-31
Traditional generating stations that produce baseload power measured in hundreds of megawatts are either closing or struggling, unable to compete with inexpensive power produced by solar, wind, or natural gas-burning plants. To handle these multitude
Autor:
John Kosowatz
Publikováno v:
Mechanical Engineering. 141:42-45
The U.S. Navy builds and sails some of the world’s largest and most powerful vessels and those ships depend on a wide range of advanced systems and machinery to operate. Now, the Navy is moving toward advanced manufacturing of some of the smallest