End of the Line

About End of the Line

In this op-ed, manufacturing veteran and host James Anderton expresses his compelling and unique opinions about the state of the manufacturing sector. He shares his thoughts and insights to help engineering and manufacturing professionals navigate through the challenges of world events, supply chain issues, the blending old with new technologies, evolving processes, gaps in skilled labour, in an effort to help maximize engineering productivity of their daily operations. James is a former editor of trade publications in the automotive, metalworking and plastics industries with contributions to a wide range of print and on-line publications. He also brings prior industry experience in quality and manufacturing for a Tier One automotive supplier. New episodes uploaded weekly. You can also watch these podcasts as videos on engineering.com TV: https://www.engineering.com/viewAll?category=end-of-the-line

Publisher

Engineering.com

Category

news · science · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Jun 2020

Latest episode

19 Sept 2024

Latest episodes

28 of 163 episodes have a transcript.

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   19 Sept 2024TRANSCRIPT

   Additive manufacturing: Ukraine's game changer?

   3D printing, or additive manufacturing as it’s known in the industry, have revolutionized warfare, as seen in the current Ukraine Russia conflict. The ability to mass-produce first-person view drones in the thousands has created a new battlefield, where traditional doctrines about armor and logistics have been changed forever. Not only do the drones make attacking armies more vulnerable, additive manufacturing allows production to be extensively decentralized, making it much harder for adversaries to degrade production capability. * * * Want to watch this podcast as a video? End of the Line (https://www.engineering.com/viewAll?category=end-of-the-line) is available on engineering.com TV along with all of our other shows such as This Week in Engineering, Designing the Future, and, Manufacturing the Future.

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   13 Sept 2024TRANSCRIPT

   Scaled Composites’ Vanguard may be the 21st Century equivalent to the Cold War F-5

   Northrup Grumman subsidiary Scaled Composites have created a small single-pilot fighter jet, the Vanguard. It could be the 21st century version of the the 1960's F-5 Freedom Fighter: low cost, but high-performance. * * * Want to watch this podcast as a video? End of the Line (https://www.engineering.com/viewAll?category=end-of-the-line) is available on engineering.com TV along with all of our other shows such as This Week in Engineering, Designing the Future, and, Manufacturing the Future.

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   3 Sept 2024TRANSCRIPT

   Are there too many space launch providers?

   The market for orbital launch services is considerable, but limited. Is the room for all the players? * * * Want to watch this podcast as a video? End of the Line (https://www.engineering.com/viewAll?category=end-of-the-line) is available on engineering.com TV along with all of our other shows such as This Week in Engineering, Designing the Future, and, Manufacturing the Future.

Inside a recent episode

Additive manufacturing: Ukraine's game changer?

Published 19 Sept 2024 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Single -phase residential -level electrical services adequate to run a handful of small machines which can be dispersed to prevent the production impact of inevitable targeting of a large manufacturing plan. It's also cheap both to acquire the 3D printing machines themselves and to manufacture the drone chassis, since no tooling is required and second operations to finish the parts are minimal. And just as importantly, both the machines and the raw materials are commercially available worldwide and are not regarded as weapons or weapon components. And of course, the biggest advantage to additive is scalability. […]

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