CESMII - the Smart Manufacturing Institute today introduced of a new class of projects available to Institute members and prospective members, further enhancing their access to Institute-developed technologies, training and CESMII Smart Manufacturing Platform™ infrastructure. Members and prospective members are free at anytime to submit proposals...
LIFT – Lightweight Innovations For Tomorrow, a Detroit-based advanced manufacturing innovation institute, operated by the American Lightweight Materials Manufacturing Innovation Institute (ALMMII), today announced it has extended the lease on its Corktown research and development facility for another five years.
LIFT, which was established by the...
The institutes that make up Manufacturing USA need to move at the speed of business, considering that the endeavor represents the U.S. government’s biggest investment in the digitization of manufacturing to date.
CESMII CEO John Dyck: “We are at risk of falling behind both Europe and Asia in terms of our smart manufacturing digital transformation...
Massachusetts’ Baker-Polito Administration has announced two new grants totaling $5.2 million from the Massachusetts Manufacturing Innovation Initiative (M2I2) to support the development of new advanced manufacturing technologies across the state. The grants awarded include $3.8 million to fund a new integrated-photonics training facility that...
See how the City of Youngstown is attracting companies with its 3D printing infrastructure and expertise, while also sparking innovation across the country.
On October 11, at Jabil Blue Sky Innovation Center in San Jose, over 125 high school students gathered to learn more about how they can pursue careers in manufacturing. Students from around Silicon Valley – representing Lincoln, Yerba Buena, Piedmont, Overfelt, Metro Ed, Leigh, and Fremont, Cupertino and Monta Vista High Schools – toured the...
America Makes and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) today announced the release of an online, interactive portal to track activity by the standardization community to address the gaps identified in the Standardization Roadmap for Additive Manufacturing (Version 2.0) published in June 2018 by the America Makes & ANSI Additive...
CESMII - the Smart Manufacturing Institute announced plans to formally launch an Affinity Group focused on the needs of small-to-medium sized manufacturing enterprises. This announcement is a continuation of the institute’s efforts to engage and empower smaller manufacturers, further demonstrated by CESMII’s previous commitment to make institute...
A team led by Materials Science and Engineering Professor Alan Luo began work this summer on two recycling efficiency projects funded by the Reducing EMbodied-Energy And Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Institute.
According to The Aluminum Association, nearly 40 percent of the North American aluminum supply is now created through secondary production...
ARM (Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing) is pleased to announce six new selected projects from its fourth Technology Project Call that took place earlier in 2019. With the selection of these six projects, more than 40% of ARM Members are involved in one or more project. Pending final negotiations, ARM plans to provide more than $2.5M in funding...
As a member of the Manufacturing USA national institutes, NextFlex is the home for developing manufacturing capabilities for flexible hybrid electronics (FHE), from health care to sensors and much more. Formed in 2015 as a partnership between the US Department of Defense and FlexTech Alliance, NextFlex has an interest in governmental applications.
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America Makes proudly welcomes Brandon Ribic, Ph.D., as its new Technology Director, effective today. Dr. Ribic fills the position previously held by John Wilczynski before being named America Makes Executive Director in June of this year.
Driven by the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM), America Makes is the national...
What happens when you combine the strength of the American worker with investment in cutting-edge science and technology? Innovations capable of changing the world.
Manufacturing USA®, a network of 14 manufacturing institutes across the United States, does just that. Each of its public-private partnerships enables precompetitive collaboration...
The Department of Defense is announcing a request for information (RFI) to identify partnership opportunities for a new Manufacturing Innovation Institute dedicated to synthetic biology, or SynBio, for non-biomedical applications. The SynBio institute aims to deliver new capabilities by "scaling-up" critical bio-manufacturing processes and related...
The increasing pace of change in technology-driven manufacturing calls for more immersive educational models.
For decades, our nation has invested billions of dollars in programs and initiatives to address the disconnection between workforce demand and supply.
However, the advanced manufacturing skills gap still exists. So that leaves the question...
