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Google’s “Create a Filter” – Pure Torture If You Make Real Filters
Specialized software programs are unusual in the filtration industry – Excel and Minitab are used for data analysis, there are lots of .pdfs circulated with marketing materials and those are often originally crafted in PowerPoint, Word or other commonly used … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Innovation, Materials Science, Theory
Tagged Filter, Filtration, Google, Industrial, Industry, Materials Science, Media, Particulate, Product, Product Management, Product Marketing
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Industrial Tours
I love walking a plant floor. Unfortunately, most of what I see from working with customers can’t go out on the Internet, and if I do have photos, they are under NDA. My son loves the show How It’s Made … Continue reading
Posted in Aerospace, Business, Disruption, History, Industry, Innovation
Tagged Aerospace, Assets, Capital, Disruption, Education, Heavy Industry, History, Industry, Innovation, Machinery, Museum, Plants, Tours
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Filtration in the Popular Media: Ultrafine Particles and 3D Printing
Dr. Brent Stephens and his co-authors at the Illinois Institute of Technology attracted a good deal of popular press attention (TechCrunch Article) with their recent publication of, “Ultrafine paticle emissions from desktop 3-D Printers” in the journal of Atmospheric Environment. … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Disruption, Industry, Innovation, Materials Science
Tagged 3D Printers, Filtration, HEPA, Most Penetration Particle, ULPA
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Peak Cable & Peak Car?
A September article by Bloomberg coined the term ‘Cord-Never’ in line with those who are ‘Cord-Cutters’ and have surrendered their cable or satellite subscription services. The full economic impact of Peak Scenarios hit me while listening to an expert media … Continue reading
Posted in Disruption, Industry, Innovation
Tagged Autonomous Vehicle, Cable, Car, Cord-cutter, Cord-never, Disruption, Forecasting, Google, OS
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Challenges in Measuring Nanofiber Adoption
As part of recent INDA RISE Conference, we were asked to pull together a presentation on industrial scale manufacturing of nanofiber (“NF”) membranes. As part of that presentation I wound up covering some observations on why it is tough to … Continue reading
Posted in Disruption, Invention, Materials Science, Textile
Tagged Adoption, Elmarco, Filter, Filtration, Industry, Materials Science, Membrane, Microfiltration, Nanofiber, NF, Nonwoven, Polymer, Reverse Osmosis, RO, technical textile, technology
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Peak Printer and Newspaper as a Historical Accident
Market research firm Photizo Group provided a recent CompuWorld article on the current state of consumer printers with the graph on the right which shows that 2010 is expected to be ‘Peak Printer’ with just over 16 million global units … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Disruption, History, Innovation, Materials Science
Tagged 3D Printing, Advertising, New Media, Peak X, Printers, X as a Historical Accident
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Space Industry Organizations
SpaceX and Planetary Resources get plenty of attention, but the number of organizatinons doing interesting things around launch and orbital activities continues to grow. B612 Foundation Ed Lu, founder of the B612 Foundation, was a guest on The Long Now … Continue reading
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3D Printing: Chasm Crossing Applications
I’m a skeptic on 3D printing. In talking with a good friend a few weeks ago, the challenge was made, “Okay, I get it that you’re a skeptic. If you were managing that business, what would you do?” Challenge accepted … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Disruption, Industry, Innovation, Materials Science
Tagged 3D Printing, bauble, Crossing the Chasm, custom jewelry, Geoffrey Moore, Medical Manufacturing, Moore, Orbital Manufacturing, tchotchke, toy
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Big Trends: Robotics and Automation
Improvements and cost reductions in sensors, software and sub-components are driving down the cost of robotics and automation. As the use of these systems increase, the potential impact is significant. Tomorrow, Thursday, June 27 is the day the results of … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Disruption, Industry, Innovation
Tagged Automation, DARPA, Disaster Recovery, Disruptoin, Rescue, Robotics, Robots, THOR, Virginia Tech
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Playing a Different Game: Genghis Khan and Maneuver Warfare
Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History has a fantastic five-part series on the “Wrath of the Khans.” Carlin’s fundamental point was to create a contrast to some popular histories Genghis Khan, which gloss over the pain and suffering created by the Khans … Continue reading
Posted in Business, History
Tagged Audible.com, Dan Carlin, Genghis Khan, Hardcore History, Information Asymmetry, Investing, Khan, Military History, Podcast
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