National Meeting highlights NIIMBL achievements, builds and expands the NIIMBL network, and sets the stage for future collaboration and innovation aimed to advance U.S. biomanufacturing.
The spirit of innovation, collaboration, and community was prevalent as NIIMBL convened its second National Meeting in Washington D.C. on May 16 and 17.
With an...
An important question circling around manufacturing right now is how job shops and other producers will address the skills gap that is expected to hit the industry with a shortage of two million workers in the next ten years. Two proposed answers, not mutually exclusive, are robots and education.
At a recent seminar on robotization in manufacturing...
Lightweight Innovations For Tomorrow (LIFT), the Detroit-based Manufacturing USA institute, announced today it will host 20 Michigan high school teachers for a week-long workshop in partnership with ASM Materials Education Foundation to develop the educators’ understanding of materials science – the foundation of all manufacturing.
The ASM...
The Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII), a Manufacturing USA institute, and its Governance Board welcomes Mr. John Dyck as its CEO. John will succeed Jim Wetzel, who has been acting as CESMII’s interim CEO since Fall 2017.
John comes to CESMII from Rockwell Automation (NYSE: ROK), where he was the Global Director of...
Xerox Parc, the legendary research and development center, is probably best known to readers as the research lab that Steve Jobs visited in the late 1970s, getting his first glimpse at the graphical user interface concept he later made famous with the Mac. But Parc has been involved in plenty of other innovative research projects over the years —...
NextFlex recently achieved several significant milestones since FlexFactor’s inception. In the program’s second year, NextFlex developed targeted versions to attract a wide variety of students to learn about career possibilities in advanced manufacturing industries that are just emerging and expanded our reach geographically. FlexFactor – a...
With over 40 events across the country in 2018, ARMI | BioFabUSA is focused on creating and nurturing regional biofabrication ecosystems across the United States. One of the regional ecosystems we are focused nurturing is the northeast. With a dense concentration of companies and academic and clinical institutions supporting the development of...
Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Announces Awardees of First Funding Round
Pittsburgh, PA – June 12, 2018 — Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) is proud to announce the awardees of its first round of project funding to strengthen U.S. manufacturing. Separate from ARM’s first official project call, these projects were selected upon...
LIFT – Lightweight Innovations For Tomorrow, a Manufacturing USA institute, today announced that Nigel Francis has been named as the institute’s chief executive officer and executive director effective immediately. Francis succeeds Chris Conrardy, who had been serving as the interim executive director since January.
LIFT, operated by the American...
LIFT along with Tennessee Tech University iCube, the Tennessee STEM Innovation Network, the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce & Industry/Tennessee Manufacturers Association, the Kentucky Association of Manufacturers and the Foundation for Kentucky Industry recently announced the winning schools of the 2017-2018 MakerMinded competition in Tennessee and...
ARMI's mission is to make practical the large-scale manufacturing of engineered tissues and tissue-related technologies, to benefit existing industries and grow new ones. In help achieve this mission, one of the BioFabUSA program's manufacturing goals is to make practical end-to-end automated biofabrication lines. These lines would ideally...
Regulatory, and preclinical consulting are the first of several member support services ARMI plans to provide its members as part of its BioFabConsulting program. The membership of BioFabUSA is diverse in expertise, interests, and business plans. The initial rounds of consultation engagements will, in composite, help define the cadence and identity...
Several members at RAPID’s Technology Speed Dating event made numerous connections and business matches last month. In all, 27 members disseminated information on their process intensification (PI) technologies—from nascent concepts and technologies to more mature ones with possibilities for additional applications — all of which encompassed RAPID...
Effective May 15th Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII) has streamlined its Regional Manufacturing Centers (RMC) (now SMICs) to three locations to focus resources on achieving a more accessible and stronger U.S. capability network. The restructuring of the regional centers from five to three regions – Southern, Northern...
"Manufacturing is changing dramatically," said Emily DeRocco, the education and workforce director of Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow, or LIFT. "We want young people to understand that there are actually exciting jobs available."
Her group is one of 14 "innovation institutes" aiming to bring government, industry, and academia together to...
