Luke Boyer, PhD
Enterprise Additive Manufacturing Technical Leader, Materials Scientist, and Global AM Champion
Baker Hughes, a GE Company (BHGE)
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Sep 05, 2018 
East Texas Advanced Manufacturing Academy set to open shop next week
East Texas Advanced Manufacturing Academy set to open shop next weekThe East Texas Advanced Manufacturing Academy will open for high school technical courses next week, officials said Thursday. The academy, which is housed in a former Brew Honda dealership in Longview, was previously scheduled to…
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The Virtuous Cycle of Closed-Loop Manufacturing
The Virtuous Cycle of Closed-Loop ManufacturingClosed-loop manufacturing is a strategy for increasing revenue and reducing costs that relies on data from all parts of an organization. The data is used to inform development teams of improvements that can be made…
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Smart Manufacturing: 7 Essential Building Blocks
Smart Manufacturing: 7 Essential Building BlocksThe Smart Manufacturing Report Series helps manufacturers consider, evaluate and execute strategies to become strong entities as the industry shifts to integrated and flexible advanced manufacturing technology and tools. The top two challenges for manufacturers…
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Classes build, demonstrate gas and oil rig
Classes build, demonstrate gas and oil rigNEW CASTLE, Pa. (AP) — Some high school students are learning to make robots and three-dimensional items using laptop computers and other technology. At the Lawrence County Career and Technical Center, members of one class…
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2017 was the best year for Texas manufacturing in more than a decade
2017 was the best year for Texas manufacturing in more than a decadeIt was a banner year for Texas manufacturing in 2017, as the state recorded production levels not seen since before the recession. Every month, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas surveys Texas manufacturing executives about…
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An open letter to Apple: Manufacturing thanks you
An open letter to Apple: Manufacturing thanks youDear Tim Cook, On behalf of SME, thank you. Thank you for standing up for manufacturing. Thank you for investing your financial strength in the manufacturing industry that truly drives local, national and global economies.…
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Digital Manufacturing Boosts Competitiveness
Digital Manufacturing Boosts CompetitivenessIn a column for The Huffington Post (5/4, Holt, Contributor) Proto Labs President and CEO Vicki Holt writes that “for businesses looking to operate more efficiently and competitively, digital manufacturing models have the potential to…
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Q & A with Richard Neff
Q & A with Richard NeffSME recently talked to Richard Neff, BAAM Sales Manager at Cincinnati Incorporated, to discuss Big Area Additive Manufacturing. BAAM is a unique part of the additive manufacturing industry. What significant achievements have taken place with…
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HOUSTEX 2017: Cybersecurity, Manufacturing Skills Gap, Automation, Oh My!
HOUSTEX 2017: Cybersecurity, Manufacturing Skills Gap, Automation, Oh My!(HOUSTON, Feb. 14, 2017) – SME’s HOUSTEX event returns to the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston from Feb. 28 to March 2. The event brings together Southwest manufacturing leaders to explore and evaluate new…
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New Product: Modula Lift
New Product: Modula LiftThe Modula Lift will be featured as a new product at HOUSTEX 2017! In today’s world of automated storage systems, the Modula Vertical Lift Module (VLM) is one of the most advanced dynamic and flexible…
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HOUSTEX MOBILE APP
HOUSTEX MOBILE APPAnnouncing the HOUSTEX Mobile Event App HOUSTEX is featuring a mobile event App that puts the HOUSTEX experience at your fingertips.* Use the App to check out the following: Exhibitor list including company descriptions and…
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HOUSTEX 2017: What’s Ahead for Southwest Manufacturing, Oil and Gas
HOUSTEX 2017: What’s Ahead for Southwest Manufacturing, Oil and GasHOUSTEX, a manufacturing trade event that brings together leaders of Southwest manufacturing to explore and evaluate new technologies, makes its return to Houston Feb. 28 to March 2 at the George R. Brown Convention Center.…
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H&R Mfg. and Supply, Inc. Honored in Texas!
H&R Mfg. and Supply, Inc. Honored in Texas!Baylor University’s Institute for Family business (IFB) honored the 2016 Texas Family Business of the Year Award winners and finalists in an awards banquet Friday, November 4 at the Meyer Conference Center in the Paul…
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The State of Texas: A Major Oil Discovery in The Permian Basin
The State of Texas: A Major Oil Discovery in The Permian BasinStriking Big An oil company might have just made one of the biggest energy discoveries in the past decade, finding a new field in West Texas that contains about three billion (yes, billion) barrels of…
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SME and AMT Announce Major Partnership to Co-Produce Five Manufacturing Events
SME and AMT Announce Major Partnership to Co-Produce Five Manufacturing Events(CHICAGO, Sept. 13, 2016) – AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology and SME have announced a major new partnership for a series of regional co-branded trade shows focused on the manufacturing technology industry. The collaboration encompasses the…
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HOUSTEX 2015 Student Summit Offers 3D Printed Wind Turbine Challenge for Houston Area High Schoolers
HOUSTEX 2015 Student Summit Offers 3D Printed Wind Turbine Challenge for Houston Area High SchoolersBecause Texas is indeed the ‘Heart of Manufacturing,’ that is the theme for this year’s HOUSTEX Student Summit, sponsored by SME, which endeavors to introduce area high school students to the merits of a variety…
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