The RAPID Manufacturing Institute is pleased to join RAPID Member, M. Davis & Sons at their Manufacturing Facility for an Open House and Facility Tour on October 4 th to celebrate Manufacturing Day, from 11am-2pm. The event will be held at the Modular Fabrication Facility located at 9 Tyler Way, Newark, DE.
Guests will have the opportunity to learn...
LIFT – Lightweight Innovations For Tomorrow, a Detroit based, Department of Defense-funded applied research and development institute operated by the American Lightweight Materials Manufacturing Innovation Institute (ALMMII) and a member of Manufacturing USA, today announced it has hit its goal of providing education and training to 101 separating...
On Friday, Oct. 4, PowerAmerica will team with one of its members, the Raleigh-based Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster, for a special networking event and speakers’ panel at the PowerAmerica offices at N.C. State University to celebrate National Manufacturing Day.
See the event description below. Register and view a more detailed event agenda at...
Manufacturing USA ® today released its 2018 Annual Report, describing innovations underway at the 14 Manufacturing USA institutes, with member organizations across the country focused on technology and workforce development. The report highlights the institutes’ work in moving discoveries from the nation’s universities and research laboratories...
Manufacturing USA today released its 2018 Annual Report, which provides details on innovations taking place at 14 institutes across the U.S. that focus on technology and workforce development. The report showed strong membership growth across all of the institutes, funding increases that went beyond the required 1:1 government/industry target, and...
The Reducing EMbodied Energy and Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Institute intends to issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) for Institute roadmap projects. The total investment will be approximately $24 million with 50% in REMADE funding and 50% awardee cost-share. REMADE anticipates issuing two (2) RFPs (RFP 3 and RFP 4) during Budget Period 3 (BP3...
Carnegie Mellon University researchers and robots will soon occupy a state-of-the-art facility at the newly constructed Mill 19 building on the 178-acre site known as Hazelwood Green.
The first building of the new Hazelwood Green development, Mill 19 once served as the location of the Pittsburgh region's most productive steel mills, employing...
America Makes proudly commemorates its seventh anniversary this month since its founding by looking ahead to the future.
Driven by the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM), America Makes is the national accelerator for AM and the first of eight Manufacturing Innovation Institutes (MIIs) established and program managed by...
LIFT – Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow, a Detroit-based national manufacturing innovation institute operated by the American Lightweight Materials Innovation Institute (ALMMII), today announced that it has received a $200,000 grant from The Skillman Foundation to help Detroit area youth strengthen their academic and employability skills and...
Adhesive patches that monitor your health by analyzing chemicals in your sweat. A flexible sheet of radio-receiving electronics you can bend into different shapes to pick up different wavelengths, nicknamed the “ origami antenna.” A strength-boosting exoskeleton that detects the tiny electrical charge just before your muscles flex, then moves with...
The Robert C. Byrd Institute (RCBI, Huntington, W.Va., U.S.) has announced the creation of a new apprenticeship training program for composite technicians, that was recently approved by the U.S. Department of Labor.
Introduced by Lucinda Curry, workforce director at RCBI, at an Aug. 21 meeting of the Composites Coalition in Chattanooga, Tenn., U.S...
Governments worldwide are partnering with industry and academia to boost research into the field of printed and flexible electronics. For example, the European Union (EU) has put considerable financial resources into a host of projects. In the US, the most notable project is NextFlex, which is helping to advance manufacturing capabilities for...
The PowerAmerica Institute at N.C. State University, a member of Manufacturing USA, recently awarded $24 million in funding to 24 new member projects that will enhance wide bandgap technologies in the United States.
“These projects are instrumental in fulfilling PowerAmerica’s mission of accelerating commercialization of wide bandgap power...
MxD, the digital manufacturing institute, today announced a comprehensive workforce development program for cybersecurity in manufacturing, underwritten with a $1.25 million grant from the Siemens Foundation. The grant will fund the development and implementation of a highly-skilled cybersecurity for manufacturing initiative as part of MxD’s...
Chances are, unless it's a super-hot day or you're just about to deliver a speech in front of hundreds of VIPs, you don't think much about your sweat. It's an inconvenience at best, an embarrassment at worse. But it's time to stop being sniffy about sweat: thanks to a new generation of sensor technologies, sweat is helping to unlock the secrets of...
