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    Technology Innovations

    Game On: How Gamification Transforms Mundane Assembly Tasks Into Motivating Challenges

    April 12, 2024
    Treating work like a game sounds like a win-win for productivity and employee happiness, but researchers at West Virginia University found some surprising results from their experiment...
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    Technology Innovations

    Fun Innovations Friday: 3D Printing Experiment Creates 15-Pound Bike That Rivals Professional Bikes

    Feb. 16, 2024
    CoreTechnologie's 3D printing project ended up creating an aluminum and carbon bike that clocks in at the lowest possible weight limit for bikes in the Tour de France—showing ...
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    Research and Development

    Project Aims to Create a Fully Automated 3D Printing Production in One System

    Feb. 8, 2024
    Scape Technologies, Danish Technological Institute, and AMT join in EUROSTARS Project to create just-in-time 3D printing production.
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    The image on the left shows clean glass within its chamber holder assembly before any welding has occurred. The center image shows the kind of deposits that typically occur with Laser in Vacuum welding systems that do not include optical protection. The image on the right shows a window after 2 hours of welding using CVE’s unique optics protection system.
    Research and Development

    Project Paves the Way for Industrialization of Laser in Vacuum Welding

    Jan. 24, 2024
    Cambridge Vacuum Engineering and Cranfield University's groundbreaking Knowledge Transfer Partnership solves optical contamination issue in welding.
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    Technology Innovations

    Fun Innovations Friday: The Company Replacing Petroleum-Based Plastics With Plants

    Jan. 19, 2024
    PlantSwitch has seemingly solved the issue of single-use plastics by creating a bioplastic material from plants and ensuring that it also works with current plastic processing...

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    Thermo Fisher Accelerates Cell Therapy Manufacturing With Next-Generation Platform of Detachable Dynabeads

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