George Leone, Student Project Facilitator at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, CA, sent us pictures of a fascinating project one of the student teams is undertaking. Cal Poly students are designing a "Supermileage" car to compete in the Shell Eco-Marathon as part of a...
The Speed Demon, a single-seat road rocket, currently holds the record for the world’s fastest turbo charged race car with a top speed, to date, of 462.345 mph! Coastal Enterprises custom bonded blocks of PBLT-10 to be machined for the tooling of the Speed...
Coastal Enterprises offers custom sized and custom bonded blocks of Precision Board Plus to save on labor and CNC machining time. We already have eight standard sizes up to 24" thick in stock, but if a different shape or size is needed, there is no limit to the size...
Have you ever been not completely sure which router bit would work best for the Precision Board Plus you were about to cut? Well worry no more, LMT Onsrud, the experts in plastic routing have a router bit search tool to help you select the proper bit. Using the...
The University of Maryland's Formula SAE team is a world ranked collegiate design group. Every year they design, build and compete an open-wheeled racecar. Competition includes almost 1000 different schools from all around the world, the University of Maryland is...
George Leone, Student Project Facilitator at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, CA, recently sent us pictures of a project that students from the Human Powered Vehicle Club designed for the ASME Human Powered Vehicle Challenge. The human powered vehicles have been known to...
The Lean Enterprise Institute defines lean manufacturing as a process designed to maximize customer value while minimizing waste. Or, to create more value for customers with fewer resources. A lean company understands customer value, and focuses its key processes to...
Instructors Ronnie Parsons and Gil Akos, at the Pratt Institute School of Undergraduate Architecture, are teaching students about new CNC technology. Specifically, they are addressing the difference between craftsmanship and manufacturing, with the goal of partnering...
We received a call from Luke DeLisio, an Aeronautical Engineering student at Purdue University, inquiring about the possibility of a Precision Board Plus donation for a very interesting project they were undertaking. Their mission: To design, assemble and successfully...