Democrat and Chronicle
Automation, Defense, Economy, Electronics, Facilities, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Jobs, Photonics, Productivity, Smart Manufacturing, Sustainability, Workforce
Rochester photonics project $3.2M under budget

Construction of a national photonics initiative headquartered in Rochester should end up $3.2 million under budget, officials said Tuesday.

Meanwhile, roughly half of the $44 million in tools for the research hub on Lake Avenue have been delivered or are in transit. Installation is expected to begin next month, with officials anticipating an...

Knowable Magazine
Additive Manufacturing, Composites, Manufacturing, Materials
3-D Printing Finds a Custom Foothold in Manufacturing

Since May 2015, in a portion of its WorldPort distribution center in Louisville, Kentucky, United Parcel Service has been operating a spare parts warehouse with no spare parts. Instead, the facility is stocked with ultrafast 3-D printers that can build up almost any plastic part that’s required, layer by layer by layer — and have it ready for UPS...

CNBC
Additive Manufacturing, Biomanufacturing, Innovation, Public Private Partnerships
Legendary Inventor Dean Kamen Jumpstarts Human Organ Manufacturing in the US
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...
PC Magazine
Additive Manufacturing, Biomanufacturing
BioFabUSA’s Dean Kamen, Who Has Over a 1,000 Patents, Talks About Innovation and Printing Organs

The SXSW 2018 program says ARMI/BioFabUSA Executive Director Dean Kamen holds more than 450 patents, and that is technically true. But that number is almost 10 years old; Kamen's name now appears on well over 1,000 patents.

And these patents are for real things that impact the lives of real people: the world's first drug infusion pump; the...