Pres Biden & his administration have had many successes. One of their accomplishments has been to restart American manufacturing. Biden & Dems must take credit & amplify it:
"Trump talked a lot about bring manufacturing back to America.
But under Biden, manufacturing investment has grown faster than any time in recent history. And it's not even close.
During Trump's presidency, manufacturing spending grew by 5%. Under Biden it has grown by 279%."
-Michael Thomas
'a political class which learns to like the things the country does well, rather than the things it feels it “ought” to do well, or wishing that the things it did well were older, more macho or involved more heavy machinery'.
Our successful economic sectors, they are undervalued by Govt.
While I disagree with the implicit downgrading of #manufacturing, Bush makes a powerful point!
There is lots of talk about the impact of #Brexit on exporters (and importers), from the #foodsector to #manufacturing, but much less on how it is effecting small scale artisans & craftspeople.
Patricia Lovett MBE has prepare an overview for MPs which include a link to her evidence to Parliament & a long summary of individual concerns.
This just adds to the evidence that #BrexitReality has had major widespread negative effects already!
A #biological testing device company and industrial #graphene manufacturer are collaborating on large-scale production of graphene #biosensors for widespread use.
Ok, so having deleted my Sad Post about the job search I will post a proper #fediHired post now. I am an applied #physicist looking for a job making physical things!
I have experience with #microfabrication and #nanofabrication, overall product design for #manufacturing, machining and mechanical #fabrication and design, #superconducting electronics, #RF circuit design, pcb layout and fabrication, building gas handling systems, building apparatus for commercial fishing, sex toy product development, open source product development with #Arduino, developing #maker curriculum of various kinds, #biomedical imaging systems, and all sorts of random science and robotic systems I've built over the years. I have a phd in applied physics(#Yale '06) and was a math/physics double major(UC #Berkeley '98). I want to help people build real physical things! I'm happy to work in any industry other than defense or software.
Private sector, government, non profit or university, startup or big company, I've got some experience with all these and am interested in working on neat things in whatever context is available. Must be either remote or #Denver/#Boulder/#Golden area, Colorado, USA. Please please please don't tell me about your software job, thank you! If you have a weird scheme that might have freelance work involved that is also great! I like weird schemes!
Think about the #resilience#infrastructure we could be building with our current technological capabilities.
There are things that we could be building today that would make the rest of the 21st century suck a lot less for the people living in it than it it looks like it will.
We could be building tools and institutions to cope with #climatedisaster
we have a few open positions for junior researchers / PhD students in a forthcoming research center on Knowledge-Assisted Visual Analytics for Industrial Manufacturing at the
St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences, starting in January 2024.
Medical masks, gowns, and gloves—the U.S. struggled to get these essentials from overseas at the height of the pandemic, so the gov’t has spent more than $1 billion to develop domestic manufacturing. But some companies now say they need more help to finish the job and find customers. And would-be glove makers showed me huge, unfinished factories that sit idle…
The good news is UK's dependence on #fossilfuels for #electricity generation has fallen to levels last seen in 1957;
the less good news is this is partly due to imported power (partly #nuclear) & partly due to a decline in demand due to the decline of UK #manufacturing.
Increasing use of electricity to achieve #netzero means electricity use is expected to double(!) by 2050 (despite more efficient tech), so, our shift to #greenenergy currently still looks too slow!
Rooftop solar is booming in the US thanks to local manufacturing. A new report shows that domestic production of solar panels has increased by 50% since 2020. This means more jobs, lower costs, and cleaner energy for Americans.
The Purchase Managers Index (PMI) is a much watched lead indicator for #business sentiment - above 50% more firms are positive about the future, below more are negative... so what's interesting is not so much the composite measure but the divergence between expectations in #services & #manufacturing.... the Q. is (relating to a recent post) whether we should worry about the negative sentiment in manufacturing or see it as more evidence that the UK really is pivoting towards services?
The reason why I was skeptical about the Essemtec printer was because we already have a manual stencil printer and that thing is in most cases worse than just taping things to the table. It is wobbly and bends. Does not provide good board support. If you are thinking of getting one or similar, save your money! They are cheap for a reason. (Yes I am currently using it to stencil backs of Glasgow but that will change soon) #electronics#manufacturing#smd
It's crazy how in order to make chain mail in the middle ages they had to smelt iron, draw it into wire, bend and cut it into tiny rings, link them, and hammer them together by hand and it took months of labor so only the richest people could afford it, and now we have a massive industrial complex that could make each and every human on earth a full body suit of chain mail in less than a week but we just don't because we don't want to.
#POTUS Biden will champion a new Microsoft #Artificial Intelligence investment in #Wisconsin on Wedn — showcasing the failed #economic commitments of his political rival Trump, whose promises for a #job-rich Foxconn plant in the battleground state never materialized.
Wielding a golden shovel, #Trump touted the #Foxconn flat-panel display factory as evidence of a broad #manufacturing revival stirred by his 2017 TaxCut which rewarded the [#wealthy & #corporations] & #tariffs on imported steel. “You know, 18 months ago this was a field, & now it’s one of the most advanced places of any kind you’ll see anywhere in the world. It’s incredible,” Trump crowed.
Continuing progress on the second general batch. Assembled a bunch of top sides, soldered in connectors and tested them. Putting on serial number stickers is the last thing before packing. We now have 120 Glasgows ready for the next batch. #electronics#opensource#fpga#GlasgowInterfaceExplorer#manufacturing#smd
OC Once again, I am calling on manufacturers to improve their sealing glues