Low Cost Materials, Parts, Processes and Suppliers for Industrial Engineering

 

Industrial engineers have to maintain databases for low cost materials. Whenever they have to do value engineering they should be able to locate lower priced materials for the materials presently in use.

Industrial engineers have to maintain databases for low priced parts. They have to keep updating the database.

New processes keep getting developed that have a low cost. Industrial engineers have to identify such  developments and record them in their database.

New suppliers keep visiting companies soliciting orders. Industrial engineers have to invite them to their departments and learn their capabilities to supply at lower prices. Some people think lower price means reduction in quality. It is not always true. Professional industrial engineers have to make the quality assessment in a rational way and recommend only firms that provide quality output.

Industrial engineers can provide latest updated list of low cost materials, parts, processes to product and process designers.

Illustrative News Items regarding Low Cost Materials, Parts, Processes and Suppliers for Industrial Engineering

Last 12 Months News

New low cost Powerless Heating System activated with water can heat food in remote areas

https://dst.gov.in/new-low-cost-powerless-heating-system-activated-water-can-heat-food-remote-areas

Indian Institute of Astrophysics researchers develop low-cost star sensor

The star sensor named Starberry-Sense can help small CubeSat class satellite missions find their orientation in space.

March 17, 2023

https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/indian-institute-of-astrophysics-researchers-develop-low-cost-star-sensor/article66631525.ece

Low-cost device can measure air pollution anywhere

Open-source tool from MIT’s Senseable City Lab lets people check air quality, cheaply.

https://news.mit.edu/2023/low-cost-device-can-measure-air-pollution-anywhere-0316

3D Printing a Low-Cost Miniature Accommodating Optical Microscope.

The key optomechanical components of a penny-sized accommodating optical microscope are 3D printed in 50 min at a significantly reduced unit cost near $4.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36624569/

Low-cost, open-source XYZ nanopositioner for high-precision analytical applications

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468067222000621

A Low-Cost, Low-Power Water Velocity Sensor Utilizing Acoustic Doppler Measurement

https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/22/19/7451

NetApp Announces New Line of Low-Cost, Capacity Flash Storage for the Modern Data Center

https://www.netapp.com/newsroom/press-releases/news-rel-20230207-701929/

Project Kuiper’s low-cost broadband customer terminals

Project Kuiper plans to serve tens of millions of customers, so we set an ambitious goal at the start of the project: design a customer terminal that costs less than $500 to build. Project Kuiper engineers hit that milestone in 2020, inventing a new antenna architecture that was smaller and lighter than traditional designs. Since then, the team has continued to innovate to make its terminal designs even smaller, more affordable, and more capable.

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/innovation-at-amazon/heres-your-first-look-at-project-kuipers-low-cost-customer-terminals

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A to Z of Industrial Engineering - Principles, Methods, Techniques, Tools and Applications

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