The University of Delaware plans a six-story, 200,000-square-foot research facility at the University of Delaware’s STAR Campus to house the national headquarters for the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL), slated to open in early 2020.

The groundbreaking ceremony will be on Monday, October 23rd. The...

Research by UI LABS and ManpowerGroup identified 165 roles that'll shape the "factory of the future," and why there couldn't be a more exciting time to be in manufacturing than now..

The numbers are staggering: Over 3.4 million jobs will become available in manufacturing over the next decade, of which 2 million may go unfilled because of a skills...

Siemens has become DMDII’s largest partner, and the two companies are going full steam ahead on developing newer and bolder IIoT technology.

If there’s one name in Chicago that’s synonymous with the Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it’s the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII). The...

Smart factories are a key aspect of the fourth industrial revolution, but a factory can’t evolve into a smart factory unless its workers evolve, too.

Perhaps the solution to the skills gap isn’t in filling old jobs, but creating new roles that maximize the effectiveness of digital technologies.

According to a recent report by research institute UI...

In the 1967 film “The Graduate,” family friend Mr. McGuire has one word of advice for young college grad Benjamin Braddock: “plastics.” That was then; 50 years on, the one word of advice today might be “data.”

Whether a young person plotting a future career or a well-established production worker trying to stay relevant, a job focused on the newest...