{"id":112,"date":"2010-10-20T23:31:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T04:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/?p=112"},"modified":"2010-10-24T23:57:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T04:57:50","slug":"field-trip-to-isthmus-engineering-cooperative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/2010\/field-trip-to-isthmus-engineering-cooperative\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Trip to Isthmus Engineering Cooperative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had the opportunity to take a quick tour of Isthmus Engineering, an engineering cooperative in Madison, WI.\u00a0 That&#8217;s right, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isthmuseng.com\/company\/worker-owned-cooperative\/\" target=\"_blank\">engineering co-op<\/a> like Willy&#8217;s St Co-op, with the majority of employees as owners and voting members in the business.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve been in business since 1980 having moved 3 times to successively larger buildings to encompass ever growing projects.<\/p>\n<p>Their facility is amazing, unfortunately, I&#8217;m not able to share any pictures of what they&#8217;re assembling, but let me put it into perspective by saying that there are many houses in Madison smaller than the manufacturing equipment they&#8217;re building and sending out.\u00a0 They&#8217;re creating manufacturing lines to fabricate products like toothbrushes, filters, flywheels, etc:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC00103.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[112]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-113\" title=\"Oral B Toothbrushes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC00103-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC00103-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC00103.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC00104.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[112]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-114\" title=\"Isthmus Engineering Assembled Products\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC00104-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC00104-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC00104.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/a>Lots of robots, arms, pneumatics, hydraulics, controls, actuators, relays, and wires flying around the facility!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had the opportunity to take a quick tour of Isthmus Engineering, an engineering cooperative in Madison, WI.\u00a0 That&#8217;s right, engineering co-op like Willy&#8217;s St Co-op, with the majority of employees as owners and voting members in the business.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/2010\/field-trip-to-isthmus-engineering-cooperative\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,3],"tags":[59,525,58],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-trip","category-news","tag-coop","tag-field-trip","tag-isthmus-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}