There is much to know about the protruding ridges that spiral around the diameter of a threaded fastener, known as external threads, especially for anyone who designs, manufactures, or purchases threaded fasteners. While engineers might …
Workplace accidents, fatal and tragic, make headlines and fade away from our collective consciousness after their shelf-life in the news cycle; the less-grievous ones rarely gain media attention, nevertheless, they are commonplace. The Occupational Safety …
With the rapidly changing remote learning requirements, more educational institutes are looking for cost-effective options for quality online resources to replace textbooks, enhance lectures, and provide learning tools that appeal to the “YouTube” generation. “While …
Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) helps an organization with effective cost and time management by dividing a product development process into the five phases of APQP. Here is an overview of the five phases of …
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Ball valves are highly versatile in design characteristics that make them suitable for transporting media of extreme natures. As a result, it is important to incorporate certain safety features in ball valves to prevent any …
What is the roll forming process? The roll forming process is a metal-forming operation that imparts the desired shape to a material strip in a progressive manner. The material strip could be either ferrous materials …
As part of a tribute to women in manufacturing, we at THORS eLearning Solutions decided to showcase one of our own, Kavita Krishnamurthy. Kavita is an ASQ certified Six Sigma Black Belt with over 15 …
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Why envision a manufacturing career? Everywhere you look there are manufactured products that someone has been involved in creating. The manufacturing industry is set to grow as new technologies are expanding the way we do …
How do you start a career in manufacturing? Senthil Kumar, the founder of THORS, remembers his early days and the challenges he faced as a new engineer. He is passionate about capturing experiential knowledge from …
THORS eLearning Solutions has been a provider of tools to help students and employers in the manufacturing industry bridge knowledge gaps for the past 10+ years. We can help you succeed on the next step …
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If you haven’t read part one of our PPAP series Production Part Approval Process Aims to Improve Communication, you might want to start there. What are the Elements of the PPAP Package? Part Submission Warrant …
Even as we learn to live with C and its many variants, the risks in the manufacturing supply chain continue to soar due to inflation, freight management hurdles, and acute shortage of raw materials, such …
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How can you determine whether composites are better than metals for a project? Here is a summary of the differences between composites and metals and a handy list of aspects you can use to compare …
