NextFlex

News

September 18, 2018

NextFlex

Design, Flexbile Hybrid Electronics

New “Nodes” to Further Support Growing FHE Community in Massachusetts and New York

NextFlex®, America’s Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE) Manufacturing Institute, today announced the formation of two Institute “Nodes” in New York and Massachusetts aimed to increase the volume, pace, and coordination of FHE development in their respective regions. The Nodes are designed to foster collaboration and benefit NextFlex members by...

August 27, 2018

NextFlex

Education, Electronics, Flexbile Hybrid Electronics, Workforce

Partners in Progress – Accelerating Innovation

Recently, 400 members, educators, government partners and supporters participated in Innovation Day at NextFlex (a Manufacturing USA institute for flexible hybrid electronics).

They got to see the latest and greatest in FHE-enabled applications, and to collaboratively reaffirm our community’s optimism about how these technologies will transform how...

July 17, 2018

NextFlex

Economy, Education, Robotics, Workforce

New Manufacturing R&D Center Weaves Together Textiles and Electronics

Last week, Massachusetts celebrated the grand opening of the UMass Lowell Fabric Discovery Center, an advanced manufacturing research and development center that will focus on innovation in textile and electronic integration, aiming to advance and integrate technologies from three Manufacturing USA institutes: NextFlex, AFFOA (Advanced Functional...

External News

October 23, 2018

Media Planet

Education, Manufacturing, Workforce

Building the Advanced Manufacturing Workforce

An advanced manufacturing workforce requires a higher level of preparation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Over the next decade millions of jobs are expected to open in manufacturing, with the majority of them projected to go unfilled. To achieve sustained economic growth, we must start educating tomorrow’s manufacturing...

Our Network @ Work

August 27, 2018

NextFlex

Flexbile Hybrid Electronics, Workforce

Interns Adding Value

NextFlex, a Manufacturing USA institute focused on flexible hybrid electronics, hosted five high school interns for six weeks this summer in partnership with the Silicon Valley Organization’s Strive Internship program. Students came from a variety of schools across the San Jose Unified and East Side Unified High School Districts, representing grade...