Manufacturing Technology, Inc. (MTI) has shipped North America’s first linear friction welder capable of full sized part development to the LIFT – Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow - in Detroit where it will contribute to cutting edge lightweighting research in the automotive and aerospace sectors.
First linear friction welder capable of full...
The American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (AIM Photonics) and Analog Photonics (AP) today announced the release of the AP SUNY Process Design Kit v2.5a (APSUNY_PDKv2.5a). This latest release expands the comprehensive set of Silicon Photonics Integrated Circuit (PIC) component libraries within SUNY Poly’s process capabilities to...
Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow (LIFT), a Manufacturing USA institute, has been recognized by TechConnect Defense with a 2018 Innovation Award for an ongoing project to increase engine efficiency and airplane performance.
The “Forging and Processing of Al-Li for Improved Performance and Structural Life” project creates a tool that allows...
Lightweight Innovations For Tomorrow, a Manufacturing USA institute, today announced the launch of its third round of technology projects. New projects will explore joining dissimilar materials, complex structures and environmentally-friendly approaches to coating metals.
This round of projects will total more than $6.5 million in...
Manufacturing USA today released its 2017 Annual Report. The report describes the program’s work in moving discoveries from the Nation’s universities and research laboratories into production in the U.S. It also describes the program’s fourteen institutes successes in developing world-changing manufacturing technology and equipping the U.S...
The Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII), a Manufacturing USA institute, announces that former federal executive and startup trailblazer Chandra Brown has been named executive director effective Sept. 26, 2018.
Chandra Brown, Executive Director, DMDII.
Launched in 2014, DMDII is where innovative manufacturers forge their...
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...
The photonics market is crucial to a number of emerging and evolving industries that depend on its rapid growth and innovation. Forecasts predict that innovations in photonic integrated circuit (PIC) technology will drive industry growth from $10 billion to over $100 billion by 2025. To successfully reach the industries that will benefit from this...
Shawn Reese is the perfect example of the complicated route that can lie ahead for workers of the future — but also for the opportunities that are emerging.
He graduated from Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester, Mass., in May with a degree in electrical engineering, a field that — like most — is undergoing rapid change. A degree today is...
Another area in which the AMO supports private industry is through taking a leading role in consortia, such as the Manufacturing Institutes that were set up to to give American companies a leg up in advanced areas such as clean energy, composite materials and chemical process intensification.
The idea behind these consortia is to create hubs that...
Dozens of executives, engineers and researchers crowded into North Carolina State University’s Hunt Library early Thursday, part of what Cree CEO Gregg Lowe called “an invisible revolution.”
“We’re the folks behind the curtain… revolutionizing a whole bunch of industries,” Lowe told the crowd from the stage.
Lowe and his cohorts were gathered for...
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...
Academic institutions partner with AIM Photonics to realize advanced computing architecture using light; develop mobile probes for identifying specific materials; and enable improved manufacturing processes for photonic devices.
The American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics ( AIM Photonics), a Department of Defense-led public...
DETROIT – LIFT – Lightweight Innovations For Tomorrow, a Manufacturing USA® institute, announced the creation of a new process which introduces the opportunity for shipbuilders to save production costs and improve build time — all while reducing distortion of lightweight materials.
Ship Shape
The Joining-3 Project, led by Huntington Ingalls...
We know two things for certain about U.S. manufacturing. The industry must become more advanced to stay competitive globally, and manufacturers need to keep employees employable by educating them to keep up to date with technological advances.
A.R.M.'D For the Next Wave
In this day and age, “advanced” means adapting to, and using, robots in the...
