White House
Manufacturing Day

On National Manufacturing Day, we celebrate American workers — the best workers in the world, who are leading a new manufacturing boom in our Nation — and we pledge to keep investing in them to make sure the future is Made in America.

Manufacturing is the backbone of our economy, but for the past few decades, we have not always treated it that way...

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SME
Modern Makers, Podcast

Manufacturing USA’s Modern Makers program seeks to promote careers in advanced manufacturing by highlighting success stories within the Manufacturing USA network. John Louka, Application Engineer at CESMII – The Smart Manufacturing Institute; and Rodrigo Perez, Manufacturing Systems Integration Engineer at MxD, the digital manufacturing institute...

Workforce

The manufacturing workforce shortage looks stark: The National Association of Manufacturers estimates that by 2030, the U.S. will need four million manufacturing jobs , with 2.1 million of those positions going unfilled if the country does not ramp up efforts to recruit new workers.

Fortunately, colleges and universities across the country are...

SME
Manufacturing

They are 16 creators at heart. One creates automation systems for manufacturers. Another designs software for photonics. One helps create high-tech careers in robotics, another in cybersecurity, and a third in the emerging field of remanufacturing. One went to prison and turned his life around to make a six-figure salary in CNC machining.

Several...

Manufacturing News
Announcement

LIFT, the Detroit-based Department of Defense manufacturing innovation institute, announced it has signed a new cooperative agreement with the Department of Defense Manufacturing Technology (ManTech) Program to continue to operate the public-private partnership and national manufacturing innovation institute (MII) for the next five years. ManTech...