The Manufacturing USA network invested nearly $540m in advanced manufacturing initiatives and delivered more than 900 research and development projects, according to its latest annual report.
The report highlights the growing role of the public-private partnership model in strengthening domestic manufacturing capabilities, supply chains, and...
Conversations about digital transformation often focus on technology. Advancements in AI, software, the Internet of Things (IoT) and automation are supposed to, almost magically, transform legacy and manual processes into smarter, connected systems.
So how’s that working out? Not well, by many accounts.
Dozens of research reports detail the plague...
America Makes, Youngstown, Ohio, and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) announced two new project calls worth over $35 million. Both are funded by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, Manufacturing Technology Office (OSD ManTech).
For decades, scaling the bioeconomy has meant building bigger and bigger facilities.
Larger fermentors. Larger separation trains. More pumps, columns, centrifuges, and stainless-steel piping. Each step adds cost, complexity, and risk. For startups trying to commercialize a new biological process, the most dangerous obstacle often isn’t engineering...
When Anthropic open-sourced the Model Context Protocol (MCP) late last year, it sent shockwaves through the industrial software ecosystem. Anthropic initiated a new wave of modernization by providing a standardized “universal translator” that allows AI agents to securely connect to enterprise data sources. In effect, it solved a major connectivity...
