Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Quinsigamond Community College will launch the second AIM Photonics Academy Lab for Education & Application Prototypes (LEAP). The comprehensive joint laboratory will support the growth of the burgeoning integrated photonics industry across the Northeast, while also providing training and education to help build...

The Digital Manufacturing Design and Innovation Institute (DMDII) has announced that it is opening its floor to manufacturers and academic institutions needing to quickly test process improvements.

Engineers from Rolls-Royce tested three new manufacturing tools and processes at DMDII. What would have taken three months to accomplish at the...

The Youngstown Business Incubator, along with America Makes, and Team NEO, have been awarded a grant from the Burton D. Morgan Foundation to develop an infrastructure and provide commercialization services for technologies related to Additive Manufacturing (AM). This program will focus on commercializing the Intellectual Property resulting from...

Ricardo Defense Systems, LLC, (RDS) and Lightweight Innovations For Tomorrow (LIFT), a Manufacturing USA institute, announced today the successful completion of their pilot project to retrofit 10 Michigan National Guard vehicles with RDS’s optimized ABS (antilock braking system) and ESC (electronic stability control) to reduce High Mobility...

Manufacturing USA today released its 2016 Annual Report to Congress. The report describes the program’s work in helping to move discoveries in the nation’s universities and research laboratories to the shop floor here in America. It highlights the nine Manufacturing USA institutes that were active in fiscal year 2016, and documents the network's...