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Travis Hessman

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Focus: Manufacturing Technology & High-Tech Industries: Computer, Electronics, etc.

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Associate editor examines trends in manufacturing technology, covering developments in automation, robotics, digital tools and emerging technologies. He also reports on the best practices of the most successful high tech companies, including computer, electronics and industrial machinery / equipment manufacturers.

 Travis returned to IndustryWeek in 2012 after working as an intern for the publication back in 2001 and later as a contributing writer.

Travis received his bachelor’s degree in English from Kent State University and his master’s in creative writing from the Northeast Ohio MFA consortium via Kent State.

Articles by Travis Hessman
Take 5: Q&A with CEO Peter Sheahan, ChangeLabs
Take 5: Q&A with CEO Peter Sheahan, ChangeLabs
Peter Sheahan urges leaders to have clarity, courage and self awareness.
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Mastering the Hybrid Factory
The industrialization of 3-D printing has transformed the manufacturing landscape into a high-tech mix of additive and subtractive tools working together to create a new, customizable world.
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Innovation: Collaborating with the Competition
To increase the rate of innovation, some manufacturers are letting their biggest rivals in on some of their biggest secrets.
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From Prototype to Part: The 3-D Printing Makeover
Thogus Products harnesses 3-D printing to transform the 60-year-old plastic molder into a thriving innovation center.
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Technology: Hackers Take Aim at Manufacturing
With industrial attacks on the rise, manufacturers are learning that high-tech defense depends on one vital nontechnical tool: education.
The History of 3-D Printing [SLIDESHOW]

With all of its recent headlines and technological leaps, additive manufacturing can feel like a very new field. But in fact, 3-D printing has been slowly evolving in labs and in the market since Chuck Hall invented stereolithography back in 1986 with his company, 3D Systems.

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Technology: Taking Batteries Beyond Lithium Ion
To keep pace with the speed of technology, it may be time to change our batteries.
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Batteries of the Future [SLIDESHOW]
New technologies with novel designs and unexplored materials are bubbling up in the market, promising to upend the battery industry.
Additive Manufacturing Brings New Life To Old Tools
New NAMII grant matches industry with academy to bring 3-D printing to the foundry.
Michelin's Obsession with Quality
To North American company president, Pete Selleck, manufacturing the 'Michelin way' means making quality king.
A Call for Caution at NAMII
AMT President Doug Woods urges caution and greater planning in the full-speed charge of NAMII and the NNMI project implementation.
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Will NAMII Work?
This is the home of the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII) -- a place where all the eyes of the industrial nation have turned in anxious anticipation.
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Congressman Tim Ryan: NAMII and the Rise of Youngstown, Ohio
Rep. Ryan (D-OH) recounts Youngstown's journey from rust belt to tech belt and what that means for NAMII's success.
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3-D Printing on Display at NAMII [SLIDESHOW]
On the outside the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute looks like any other building in Youngstown, Ohio—an unremarkeable rectangle of grey brick; a relic of another age. On the inside, however, it is home to some of the most state-of-the-art additive manufacturing equipment available today.
US Manufacturing Technology Orders Continue 2013 Slump
Manufacturing technology orders continue to see a hard climb in 2013, showing slow growth after a strong 2012.
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