It only took Cochranton High School’s robot, Juggernaut, about a minute to bring home a four-peat championship at Meadville Area Senior High School’s House of Thrills on Saturday at the 10th annual RoboBOTS competition.
The team Projekt Mayhem robot made Union City High School and its...
The RoboBOTS robot building program gave Bryce Mullen of Meadville more of an advantage when he started college last fall than he had expected.
"It really gave me a leg up," said Mullen, a freshman studying mechanical engineering at Pennsylvania State University in State College. "I was...
CLEVELAND, OH—March 30, 2016—According to the March 2016 Precision Metalforming Association (PMA) Business Conditions Report, metalforming companies expect a slight dip in business conditions during the next three months. Prepared monthly, the report is an economic indicator for...
Local tooling and machining firms constantly must reach out to students to attract new people to careers in today's high technology manufacturing environment.
"We have to tell our message each year and get out and share our message," said Tami Adams, executive director of the Northwestern...
The ring where robots clash during the annual RoboBOTS robot competition isn't the original from the 2007 competition.
That first arena, about a 10-foot by 10-foot structure, was rented by the Northwestern Pennsylvania chapter of the National Tooling and Machining Association from the...
CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Precision Metalforming Association (PMA) announced today that Ron Lowry, owner and president of Minneapolis-based ...
It started 10 years ago with 15 teams before an audience of less than 1,000. On April 2 this year, RoboBOTS, the annual mechanical engineering skills competition organized by the local chapter of the National Tooling and Machining Association, marks its first decade by hosting 37 teams and an...
More than 400 manufacturing executives attended The MFG Meeting March 2-5 in Palm Desert, California, where conference sessions focused on emerging developments in U.S. manufacturing and economic forecasts. The event was organized by AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology and the...
Manufacturing industry groups are tracking a number of key policy issues this year that could have a variety of implications on their West Michigan members.
Those issues range from overarching concerns about health care costs to industry-specific issues such as the use of fire retardants...
CLEVELAND, OH—February 19, 2016—According to the February 2016 Precision Metalforming Association (PMA) Business Conditions Report, metalforming companies expect a slight uptick in business conditions during the next three months. Prepared monthly, the report is an economic indicator for...
