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Following our milestone ten-year anniversary, 2025 was a year of continued innovation, engagement, and improvement experienced by the advanced manufacturing network and beyond.

Notable highlights from 2025 include:

Advanced Manufacturing Occupation and Competency Framework

In an effort to equip job seekers, employers, and trainers with the...

Cybersecurity, Manufacturing Day

The Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute ( CyManII) at UTSA and the San Antonio Manufacturing Association (SAMA) hosted a 2025 Manufacturing Day celebration at CyManII’s Cybersecurity for Manufacturing (C4M) hub at Port San Antonio on October 3. The event brought industry professionals and other stakeholders together to explore how...

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Manufacturing

From the first mills and forges that built our young Republic to the cutting-edge industries of today, manufacturing has always been the foundation of our prosperity, the strength of our communities, the safeguard of our independence, and the engine of our greatness. This National Manufacturing Day, we celebrate the unmatched might of America’s...

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“Nose presses” is not an official metric of workforce recruiting success for the Penn State Digital Foundry on 5th Avenue in New Kensington, PA, but it is hugely symbolic in the quest to expand the manufacturing talent pipeline in communities, according to Sherri McCleary, the Executive Director of the foundry.

A nose presser is a passerby who...