Industry News Neurophotometrics and Markforged Announce New 3D Printed Nasal Swab that Provides Better Accuracy Markforged announced that it is partnering with Neurophotometrics to produce Fiberflex Rayon, a 3D printed nasopharyngeal (NP) swab for use in diagnostic testing for COVID-19. The new 3D printed swabs take just minutes to make, and in testing, they successfully detected the virus in all of the patients, while the commercial swabs reported false negatives. The team is currently producing 10,000 swabs per day, with plans to scale to 100,000 per day. In a collaborative effort by the San Diego Covid Research Enterprise Network (SCREEN) Initiative — a group of scientists, students, research institutions, and others in the San Diego area — Neurophotometrics, Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, the Scripps Research Institute, and the University of California San Diego designed and tested the 3D printed swabs with fifty volunteers. Patients that were confirmed to be positive for COVID-19 were re-tested three to fourteen days later with both the commercial swab and the 3D printed swab. Testing with the commercial swab detected the virus in most, but not all of the patients, while all of the 3D printed swabs came back positive, suggesting the 3D printed swab may be more efficient at collecting viral particles and may reduce the rate of false negatives.
Big Kaiser Adds Sales Engineer in The Eastern US BIG KAISER Precision Tooling has hired Kevin Spring for the position of Sales Engineer. He is responsible for support and sales in Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. Kevin has more than 15 years of experience as a CNC programmer and manufacturing/ project engineer in Pennsylvania and New York. "Whenever possible, we like to strengthen our teams in the field with hands-on and local experience," Paul Lewis, Northeast District Manager "Kevin fits the bill. We are confident he will be a great asset for our customers and will take on his new responsibilities with the same enthusiasm and professionalism we've come to know."
Siemens’ latest Simcenter STAR-CCM+ Improves Simulation Time And Accuracy Siemens Digital Industries Software announces its latest release of Simcenter™ STAR-CCM+™ software, part of the Simcenter portfolio of simulation and test solutions that helps companies optimize design and deliver innovations faster and with greater confidence. The latest release of Simcenter STAR-CCM+ includes major enhancements to improve simulation time and accuracy as well as enhance collaboration, giving customers a comprehensive
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digital twin to help drive highly predictive simulations. In this release, Siemens is introducing a completely new parallel polyhedral mesher for faster, more effective meshing, as well as the industry’s first model-driven adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) solution. The latest release also includes automatic coupled solver control for reduced set up time while improving convergence speed and the industry’s first ever collaborative virtual reality (VR) feature in a CFD code for enhanced team collaboration on simulation results.
Industrial Magnetics Develops Germ-Free Door Opener, Donates 100% of Profits to Local Food Pantries In direct response to the Coronavirus pandemic, Industrial Magnetics, Inc.(IMI) has developed a new, hands-free door opener that allows people to open latch-less doors without using their fingers, arms, or clothing. The company has also announced that 100 percent of profits from the sales of the new device will be donated to local food pantries in their surrounding communities. The Foot-Pull Door Opener is attached to the bottom of a door and allows users to gently pull open doors using the sole of their shoe - eliminating the need to touch potentially contaminated door surfaces and helping to stop the further spread of germs and bacteria.
Sandvik Coromant Joins Forces With Microsoft To Shape The Future of Manufacturing Sandvik Coromant's CoroPlus® offering, developed in part with Microsoft, is based on Azure IoT Suite, Cortana Intelligence Suite and Dynamics 365 for Field Service. Among other things, the offering connects people, machines, tools and data on a single platform to offer Sandvik Coromant's customers a better basis for decision making, and provides an overview of the various developments in the manufacturing process. This can enable savings, for example, by reducing machine downtimes. "We see this collaboration with Nadine Crauwels, President, Microsoft as key to the success of our Sandvik Coromant digital strategy. We have a historic relationship with them and look forward to continuing our journey, creating value by working together to develop and implement solutions for the manufacturing industry to guarantee efficiency, sustainability and growth. This unique partnership represents a new way for our companies to work together more closely to develop our competence," explained Nadine Crauwels, president of Sandvik Coromant.
hyperMILL® CAM Software Aids NASA’s Knowledge Quest OPEN MIND Technologies has announced that Ramco Machine, LLC (Rowley, MA U.S.A) is helping to impact the future of space exploration by using hyperMILL® CAM software and 5-axis machining to make parts for an advanced NASA satellite mission. The mission, named Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is credited to discovering
