Friction Stir Welding
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I wonder how much they'd have to increase the price of a $499.00 iPad to give those workers decent hours and a decent wage?
Increase price, or just take a little hit in profits, which are hidden and protected from U.S. taxes anyway. [^] I always thought it was good sustainable business practice when your employees made enough to purchase the products they make. That's why Henry Ford made the $5 day and introduced profit sharing, to create a market. "Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible." Henry Ford
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Chris Maunder wrote:
I hope more hardware manufacturers start thinking about their products in more of a "every little bit counts" way of thinking.
This has been the mindset of just about every PC manufacturer for the last 20 odd years which is why new PCs are bloated corpses flailing under the weight of "utilities" that manufacturers insist on weighing new machines down with. Seriously, if the extras take up more space than the operating system, and if you have to spend three weeks hunting them down and killing them, then you know you have a problem.
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I'm thinking more from the point of quality, not from the point of including the kitchen sink. Crapware most certainly doesn't enhance quality.
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A butt weld...I ain't sticking mine anywhere near that rotating device thank you.
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Version 3.0 now available. There is no place like 127.0.0.1Heh huh heh heh. You said butt.
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Heh huh heh heh. You said butt.
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This[^] was not a term I'd heard of 5 mins ago but while watching the Engadget broadcast of the Apple event I saw a slide stating that Apple was using FSW on the new iMac. I don't care whether FSW is snake oil or something usually reserved for Space Shuttles, but I think it's way cool to hear a manufacturer of computers get all excited about their products to the point where they want to talk about the welding they used. I hope more hardware manufacturers start thinking about their products in more of a "every little bit counts" way of thinking.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Truth of the matter is the manufacturing is the most imporant aspect of a product. In Japan (and probably the rest of the far east) manufacturing is a big engineering field. In the US it is almost an afterthought. Design engineering is the big draw. So now most of the manufacturing in the US has disappeared, and the US gets so much of thier manufactured goods from overseas. The US may have the greatest technology, but cannot competatively manufacture it.
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This[^] was not a term I'd heard of 5 mins ago but while watching the Engadget broadcast of the Apple event I saw a slide stating that Apple was using FSW on the new iMac. I don't care whether FSW is snake oil or something usually reserved for Space Shuttles, but I think it's way cool to hear a manufacturer of computers get all excited about their products to the point where they want to talk about the welding they used. I hope more hardware manufacturers start thinking about their products in more of a "every little bit counts" way of thinking.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
I don't really understand how this works (well, I get it, but not completely) You start by drilling into( between) the material (possible loss of raw material ?) and then the drill bit heat up and move between the 2 plates and then pressure is applied ? In the last 2 examples in the video below, it would seem there is a hole left over from the welding ? (warning cheesy music) Friction Stir Welding[^]
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Increase price, or just take a little hit in profits, which are hidden and protected from U.S. taxes anyway. [^] I always thought it was good sustainable business practice when your employees made enough to purchase the products they make. That's why Henry Ford made the $5 day and introduced profit sharing, to create a market. "Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible." Henry Ford
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Truth of the matter is the manufacturing is the most imporant aspect of a product. In Japan (and probably the rest of the far east) manufacturing is a big engineering field. In the US it is almost an afterthought. Design engineering is the big draw. So now most of the manufacturing in the US has disappeared, and the US gets so much of thier manufactured goods from overseas. The US may have the greatest technology, but cannot competatively manufacture it.
Clifford Nelson wrote:
cannot competatively manufacture
True, and mostly due to unions and overtaxation.
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Clifford Nelson wrote:
cannot competatively manufacture
True, and mostly due to unions and overtaxation.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert EinsteinNot mostly. That is true for some industries, like clothing, but even there, there is competition between manufacturers. It is like now multiple patterns are cut out at once, and that invovles providing the right tools to do the job. One really big issues is polution and health issues. However, if you look at the F-35, Lockheed designed a bulkhead in the original design (don't know if it is still in the design) that was extremely expensive to manufacture. In Germany every mechanical engineering student use to spend time in a machine shop to learn about the difficulty of building stuff. That is why Germany is so well known for its mechanical engineers.
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This[^] was not a term I'd heard of 5 mins ago but while watching the Engadget broadcast of the Apple event I saw a slide stating that Apple was using FSW on the new iMac. I don't care whether FSW is snake oil or something usually reserved for Space Shuttles, but I think it's way cool to hear a manufacturer of computers get all excited about their products to the point where they want to talk about the welding they used. I hope more hardware manufacturers start thinking about their products in more of a "every little bit counts" way of thinking.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Nice to see it coming from Microsoft when they announced the Surface. The sound of the click of the prop etc. Happy birthday BTW.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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Nice to see it coming from Microsoft when they announced the Surface. The sound of the click of the prop etc. Happy birthday BTW.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
I was wondering if you were going to pop in. Great to hear from you again. Happy Birthday, BTW.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP