A cutting-edge multi-project wafer (MPW) facility at AIM Photonics , a Manufacturing USA institute, in Rochester, New York, is nearly ready to roll.

Officials said last week that the delayed Test, Assembly, and Packaging (TAP) site will begin services for customers next month. The TAP facility is a core element of the $600 million-plus silicon...

The photonics market is crucial to a number of emerging and evolving industries that depend on its rapid growth and innovation. Forecasts predict that innovations in photonic integrated circuit (PIC) technology will drive industry growth from $10 billion to over $100 billion by 2025. To successfully reach the industries that will benefit from this...

An important question circling around manufacturing right now is how job shops and other producers will address the skills gap that is expected to hit the industry with a shortage of two million workers in the next ten years. Two proposed answers, not mutually exclusive, are robots and education.

At a recent seminar on robotization in...

Dean Kamen founded the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute ( ARMI ) to mass produce human organs. The goal is to jumpstart a new industry of biofabrication in the U.S. Nearly 120,000 Americans are waiting for a donated organ, and 20 of them die each day waiting for a transplant. Dean Kamen has raised about $300 million, $80 million from...

The Digital Manufacturing Design and Innovation Institute (DMDII) announced on March 12 that it has launched a Cyber Hub for Manufacturing. It is part of DMDII’s public-private partnership as one of the Manufacturing USA institutes which are sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to advance the state-of-the-art in digital manufacturing...