Building an organ is way more sophisticated than the most complex product today.
But that doesn’t change this fact: You don’t depend on craftsmanship or artisanship in the process. You bring that same discipline, standards and metrics to this kind of manufacturing as you do to making soup or cookies or cars.
Soon we will be in a world where we...
Boeing and Airbus are arch rivals, competing vigorously over decades for supremacy in the global aviation market, much like DowDupont and BASF do in chemicals. Yet all of these companies, along with many others, collaborate at places like the Composites Institute (IACMI) . They do this not out of any altruism, of course, but self-interest.
It is...
Rob Gorham of AmericaMakes, a Manufacturing USA institute, speaks with 21 WMFJ on the Future of 3D printing in the Valley
Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM), a Manufacturing USA institute, last week issued a formal solicitation for a call for proposals for eight topic areas relative to advancing robotics technology for manufacturing.
Pittsburgh-based ARM is the nation’s leading public-private collaborative in robotics and workforce innovation. It is part of...
CHICAGO—The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is set to award $10 million in funding this year to the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII) here, UI Labs CEO Caralynn Nowinski Collens, said this morning. UI Labs is DMDII’s parent organization.
DOD is also pledging at least $20 million more over the next five years to drive...
