How would the face of advanced manufacturing be transformed if there were four new job candidates every single day? FlexFactor ®, NextFlex’s flagship learning program, recently surpassed an important milestone – 10,000 total students reached. Since starting in 2016 with only 8 students in San Jose, CA, we have now grown to reaching an average of...
Two arenas and a manufacturing center are deploying private 5G networks for tech gains that include low latency, high reliability, and support for massive numbers of connected devices.
The appeal of private 5G is driving companies to explore ways to improve the performance, scalability and flexibility of their mobile networks.
Enterprise deployment...
NextFlex ®, America’s Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE) Manufacturing Institute, today announced the formation of a new Institute Node in Missouri aimed to increase the volume, pace and coordination of FHE development. The new Node joins two previously established Nodes in New York and Massachusetts, demonstrating the momentum in FHE adoption...
Reported in 2014, hackers infiltrated the IT network of a German steel plant with a successful email “spear-phishing” attempt. Once they were into the system, the hackers subsequently were able to access the operational technology (OT) of the plant’s operating system. That’s when the crime turned deadly. The attackers compromised settings on the...
America Makes announces three new project calls today which will accelerate the adoption of additive manufacturing (AM) and offer a new way for the supply chain to engage in the Institute. Several actionable focus areas are aligned to each project call, including materials data, process monitoring, data management as well as education and workforce...
During the pandemic, the food processing industry was slammed. Supply chain issues slowed production. Runs on products resulted in empty shelves, and social distancing stretched the labor force impossibly thin. The meat processing industry was hit particularly hard by social distancing constraints and dangerous outbreaks. You could just about hear...
More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, and while organizations are working hard to resolve the supply chain problems impacting the United States and the rest of the world, global disruption persists and has impacted nearly every industry. Berardino Baratta, VP of projects and engineering at MxD, is dedicated to identifying how...
Loomia Technologies is partnering with Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA) to develop highly tactile, heated handwear that could be applicable to both commercial/recreational and military customers.
For this collaborative project, Loomia will provide technology to be used in a heated glove insert, while AFFOA will lead customer discovery...
Today Ursa Major announced the delivery of its first copper-based 3D-printed rocket engine combustion chambers out of its additive manufacturing (3D-printing) lab in Youngstown, Ohio.
The processes developed at this facility compress the production and delivery cycle to one month, compared to a...
The Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CyManII) has released a roadmap to help manufacturers strengthen their cybersecurity infrastructure. The roadmap will help businesses understand how CyManII’s technical efforts can be leveraged to achieve a secure manufacturing architecture while also focusing on fundamental business goals...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today issued a $70 million funding opportunity announcement to establish its 7th Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute. This new coalition of industry, academia, and government partners aims to develop and scale technologies to electrify industrial process heating and reduce emissions across the...
In 2021, Smart Manufacturing started asking the leaders transforming manufacturing what effect the coronavirus pandemic has had on their business. Not only do the stories continue to amaze, we’re also seeing some of the trickle down effects of COVID-19 emerge in their answers.
Two respondents said reshoring—bringing manufacturing back to the...
Manufacturing USA’s program office along with 7 manufacturing innovation institutes attended the Smart Manufacturing eXperience (SMX) in “Steel City,” Pittsburg, PA. With a focus on combating the challenges and opportunities to adopt smart manufacturing technologies faced by small and medium-sized manufacturers (SMMs) and others in the industry...
MxD, the national digital manufacturing and cybersecurity institute, announced today that Berardino Baratta has been named MxD’s next CEO. Baratta, currently vice president of projects and engineering at MxD, will officially assume his new role on July 1.
Current CEO Chandra Brown, who is retiring, will serve as a part-time adviser to the...
MxD today announced that it has been recognized as a winner in the 2022 Manufacturing Leadership Awards for outstanding project achievements as well as in next-generation leadership.
Projects were awarded in three categories: Engineering and Production Technology, Transformational Cultures, and Collaborative Ecosystems.
The Engineering and...
