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Well Now. Nation, This Just Might Be Fun

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Submitted by joe feeley on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 20:39.

PLANTVILLE--An Innovative Online Game Simulates a Plant Manager's Experience Challenging Players to Increase Productivity, Sustainability and the Overall Health of an Industrial Plant  read more »

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Car Talk

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Submitted by joe feeley on Fri, 02/25/2011 - 22:31.

To finish out the week: This is nothing more than an expensive VW commercial, but you have to admit, it looks like a pretty slick place to build cars.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/nd5WGLWNllA?rel=0

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About That Innovation Post

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Submitted by joe feeley on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 17:52.

Got this response to my post about MAG's "no coolant" machining center. I'll repost the link to it below Dal's comments if you don't know what this about

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Innovation That Lives Up to the Word

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Submitted by joe feeley on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 19:34.

After doing a bit more snooping around to try to confirm the freshness of the joint project between MAS-IAS; Creare, the cryogenics experts; and the U.S. Navy, to build a titantium machining center that doesn't use tool coolant [that's what I said, it doesn't use coolant], and doubles the rate of titanium cutting [ that's in 2x ] and increases ridiculously tool life, I'm still thinking this is an important industrial innovation that actually lives up to the word.

Don't know what I'm talking about?  read more »

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It Works Great, but....

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Submitted by joe feeley on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 21:11.

Umm, Pete, the machine runs like a charm, but I think we better go back and review the criteria for "purpose" in the RFQ.

http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Most-Useless-Machine/

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10 Years from now...

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Submitted by kbonfante on Thu, 12/10/2009 - 16:17.

As we near the end of the calendar year this is a good time to pull out the crystal ball and solicit your input on what YOU think automation systems in 2020 will be like?  read more »

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