- Americans Love Engineering & Innovation: The Heroic Act of Innovation - Heroic Aptitude. I’m a handy guy. I can build a table from scrap wood, maintain my car, and drywall a room pretty darn well. Even so, I fail as an innovator of physical products and designs. Case in point, about 10 years ago my friend Sam was over for a family party and used our… Continue Reading
- Skid-Based Production is Manufacturing’s “New Normal” - Whether it is for hand sanitizer, shampoo ingredients, a medical additive, or any of a thousand other process steps in a thousand different industries, producing chemistries and other products in a modular platform is increasingly the norm. More and more frequently we at Optimation are seeing requests, and opportunities, for modular or skid-based production and… Continue Reading
- Calling All Entrepreneurs, Investors and American Manufacturers - There are HUGE opportunities for re-shoring and creating American jobs! This is an ideal time for venture capitalist and entrepreneurs to band together, identify needed items and invest in the factories that will manufacture these items here in the United States. In June the Department of Defense announced that it's partnering with the U.S. International… Continue Reading
- Emerging from COVID-19 Restrictions One Step Ahead - It has been an interesting several months of attempting to service our clients under the pandemic related constraints. At Optimation, we have observed many of our clients who have, out of necessity, had to scale back their operations, including things like pursuing needed capital improvements to their manufacturing equipment. One market segment that we participate… Continue Reading
- Optimation Technology has a new Chief Operating Officer, Wendy Smith - We announced a new Chief Operating Officer this week. Wendy Smith, with over thirty years’ experience in plant operations and design and engineering services management, is excited to take on the challenge. “This new role is a wonderful blend of both of my engineering and manufacturing roots. I am excited to bring those two worlds… Continue Reading
- An American Inspiration – SpaceX Successful Launch - We have new heroes to follow. Crew Dragon and the Falcon 9 rocket launched Saturday May 30th, and the Lunar Optimized Starship and the Artemis program will be here in the near future! Fifty years ago, we cheered with patriotic pride as Neal Armstrong took the first step on the moon. That was the culmination… Continue Reading
- Maximizing the Customer Experience - When I was a kid living outside of Columbus, as my father taught at Ohio State we favored an ice cream store that had a sign on the wall that struck me--even at 9 years old. It described how people who only cared for the price of something were doomed to get exactly the experience… Continue Reading
- Research and Innovation in American Manufacturing - American technology and innovation have always been the envy of the world. Perhaps not since the founding of the nation two and a half centuries ago, when we were cut off from the factory production in Europe and forced to produce our own goods, has there been such motivation and drive to increase our domestic… Continue Reading
- The New Normal - You’ve been out of work or working from home for weeks, months? How do we adjust to the “new normal”? Welcome back, almost. We’ve been living in this strange new world for eight weeks, and we are all anxiously awaiting being able to get back to “normal”, whatever that looks like now. If you’re anything… Continue Reading
- How and Why to Become an Engineer - Now you want to be an engineer, so how do you do it? During National Engineers Week we filled you in on all the reasons you should be an engineer. EWeek, as it is also known, is dedicated to ensuring a diverse and well-educated engineering workforce by increasing the understanding of and interest in engineering… Continue Reading
