Joseph J. Houldin, Founding Leader of DVIRC, Steps Down After 28 Years of Industrial Innovation

National Manufacturing Extension Partnership Board Appointment After serving as Delaware Valley Industrial Resource Center (DVIRC) Board Chair for 20 years, Bernadine Hawes, will now dedicate her efforts to serving on the National Institute of Standards and Technology Manufacturing

A recent study by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research titled “The National-Level Economic Impact of the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP): Estimates For Fiscal Year 2018” found the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Hollings Manufacturing

On October 12, more than 500 people gathered at the Seventh Annual Greater Philadelphia Manufacturing Summit, the largest ever hosted by the Delaware Valley Industrial Resource Center (DVIRC). The Fuge (formally Johnsville Centrifuge) in Warminster, PA, where, in 1959, the Mercury

Introduction Manufacturers employ turning, milling and drilling operations to machine features on workpieces. However, those same processes can also produce burrs and undesirable sharp edges at the feature borders. These edge conditions may result in material breakage when the part