In a July 2016 report, Cleveland-based MAGNET, Team NEO, the Youngstown Business Incubator and Youngstown's America Makes group issued a report on the potential for 3-D manufacturing and found ample resources and support for the growing technology in Northeast Ohio.
The Manufacturing USA network of public-private institutes “is a valid approach” that “attracts significant and meaningful participation from industry…academia, and local, state, and federal government,” a consulting company commissioned by Manufacturing USA said in a report.
From Cincinnati to Youngstown, and from Columbus to Cleveland, Ohio is seeing innovation in a big way, home to operations of GE, America Makes, BeAM, BeeHex, Knockout Concepts, and Air Force research activities, among many others.
The University of Connecticut will partner with the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute to share its human tissue and limb regeneration technologies.
An estimated 505,370 Hoosiers work in advanced manufacturing jobs related to light weighting, according to a report by Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow (LIFT).
