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Smart Industry
Biomanufacturing, Fabrics, Facilities, Manufacturing, Materials, Photonics, Workforce
How Collaborative Manufacturing Facilities are Impacting Industry’s Future

Manufacturing keeps evolving—and the facilities that house manufacturing in the U.S. are also changing and innovating. Given that 54% of domestic R&D occurred in manufacturing in 2021, according to the National Science Foundation, it makes sense for industrial facilities to be the places that enable experimentation and encourage product development...

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MxD
Cybersecurity, Digital Twins
How Digital Twin Technology — and a Virtual Blast Furnace — Are Helping to Bridge the Manufacturing Skills Gap

Purdue University is taking manufacturers somewhere they have never been: inside a blast furnace.

The university’s physics-based, data-driven, next-generation Integrated Virtual Blast Furnace (IVBF) mirrors a blast furnace, enabling an unprecedented interior view and providing an example of how manufacturing is embracing digital twin technology...

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Automation World
Innovation, Manufacturing, Robotics
Top Manufacturing Tech Applications in 2025

Let me start by saying I’m not much of a fan of predictions. Especially when it comes to technology. It’s too easy for prognosticators to throw out ideas of what may or may not come to pass only to plead mea culpa when those predictions prove to be wildly off base.

On the other hand, I do appreciate insights from experts working in the field who...

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International Fiber Journal
Fabrics
Fiber Electronics for Advanced Fabric Systems

Fibers and textiles date back to the beginning of civilization itself, yet remarkably, the fundamental properties of these materials have remained largely unchanged for millennia. By and large, natural fibers such as cotton and wool, and synthetic fibers such as nylon and polyester form the foundation for the vast majority of textile products, yet...

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America Makes
3D Printing, Additive Manufacturing
America Makes Announces Winners of Project Call Totaling $2.1M

America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) are pleased to announce the winners of a recent project call awarded through the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering’s Manufacturing Technology Office (OSD(R&E)), totaling $2.1M in funding. The project call, released in June 2024...

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Department of Commerce
Digital Twins
Biden-Harris Administration Awards Semiconductor Research Corporation Manufacturing Consortium Corporation $285M for New CHIPS Manufacturing USA Institute for Digital Twins, Headquartered in North Carolina

Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that CHIPS for America awarded the Semiconductor Research Corporation Manufacturing Consortium Corporation (SRC) $285 million to establish and operate a CHIPS Manufacturing USA institute headquartered in Durham, North Carolina. This follows the previously announced intent to enter negotiations on...

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Scouting Magazine
Education, Innovation, Manufacturing Jobs, Modern Makers
Meet the Manufacturing USA ‘Modern Maker’ Who Got His Start with Pinewood Derby cars

Working in the manufacturing industry often requires problem-solving, ingenuity and curiosity – the same qualities needed to successfully build and race a Cub Scouts Pinewood Derby car.

“There’s so much engineering,” says Michael Gomez. “It’s got to fit inside a box and weigh a certain amount and be competitive.”

Gomez, the principal engineer in...

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AFFOA, AIM Photonics, America Makes, ARM, BioFabUSA, BioMADE, CESMII, CyManII, EPIXC, IACMI, LIFT, MxD, NextFlex, NIIMBL, PowerAmerica, RAPID, REMADE
Event, Manufacturing
Manufacturing USA's 10th Anniversary and Top Ten in 2024

Ten years ago today, Congress enacted the Revitalizing American Manufacturing and Innovation Act , establishing Manufacturing USA.

We are especially grateful for the people in the advanced manufacturing network and the countless milestones and achievements since the program’s inception, particularly this past year.

In honor of our 10 th...

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Quality Magazine
Cybersecurity, Digital Twins, Modern Makers, Podcast
Did You Know How Many Types of Digital Twins There Are?

Rodrigo Perez of MxD is here to explain this – along with the interesting elements of a career in manufacturing. Perez is a manufacturing systems integration engineer at MxD, the digital manufacturing institute and National Center for Cybersecurity in Manufacturing. Here he shares advice on recruiting the next generation to manufacturing, what...

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AdvancedManufacturing.org
Event, Manufacturing, Modern Makers
Celebrating 10 Years of Manufacturing USA
A catalyst for increasing U.S. manufacturing competitiveness by connecting people, ideas and technology

A decade ago, policymakers responded to the need to strengthen the U.S. manufacturing base with the launch of Manufacturing USA. Recently, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) hosted a Capitol Hill event dubbed...

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Department of Commerce
Digital Twins, Semi-Conductor
CHIPS for America Announces New Proposed $285 Million Award for CHIPS Manufacturing USA Institute for Digital Twins, Headquartered in North Carolina

Cutting-Edge Technology Allows for New, Collaborative Design and Research for the Semiconductor Industry

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Semiconductor Research Corporation Manufacturing Consortium Corporation (SRC) are entering negotiations for the Department to provide SRC $285 million...

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AFFOA
Fabrics
AFFOA Welcomes New Board Member, Dr. Eric D. Evans

Advanced Functional Fabrics of America, Inc. ( AFFOA) is proud to announce the addition of Eric D. Evans, Ph.D., to its Board of Directors. The newest member of the Institute brings a vast knowledge of technology transfer and strategy, as well as national security and educational outreach.

Evans served as the 11th director of MIT Lincoln Laboratory...

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Manufacturing.net
Biofabrication, Biomanufacturing
BioMADE Announces $26.9M for 17 Projects to Support Bioindustrial Manufacturing, Workforce Development

BioMADE announced 17 new projects designed to drive the scale-up and commercialization of American biomanufactured products. They include producing biodegradable plastics, upcycling waste to create new products, certification programs to prepare the workforce of tomorrow’s U.S. bioeconomy, developing cell-free systems for commodity chemicals and...

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The Business Journal
Additive Manufacturing
America Makes Names New Education, Workforce Development Director

America Makes, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, has hired Edward D. Herderick as its new director of education and workforce development.

He is responsible for providing strategy and program management leadership in education and workforce development for customer project initiatives, conducting business development and...

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