NextFlex hosted the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the California Manufacturing & Technology Association (CMTA) as part of NAM’s fourth annual State of Manufacturing Tour across America. NAM President and CEO Jay Timmons, and Dorothy Rothrock, President of CMTA, and their teams visited with Malcolm Thompson, Executive Director of...
The SXSW 2018 program says ARMI/BioFabUSA Executive Director Dean Kamen holds more than 450 patents, and that is technically true. But that number is almost 10 years old; Kamen's name now appears on well over 1,000 patents.
And these patents are for real things that impact the lives of real people: the world's first drug infusion pump; the...
It's become conventional wisdom that the last 30 years have been a hotbed of innovation, but evidence suggests otherwise. As Robert Gordon explains in The Rise and Fall of American Growth, productivity growth peaked between 1920 and 1970 and has declined ever since. Economist Tyler Cowen calls this the Great Stagnation.
Part of the reason for the...
Two floors of a former Kodak building on Lake Avenue have been renovated to house the nearly-completed AIM Photonics headquarters.
Approximately $30 million in taxpayer money has been used to prepare it; another $30 million is in the works.
The nerve center of AIM Photonics is in the clean room, whether designs will be developed into prototypes...
AIM Photonics-led Technology Information Session to Highlight Updated, State-of-the-Art Process Design Kit, Multi-Project Wafer Capabilities, in Addition to TAP Facility and Overall Initiative Updates
The American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (AIM Photonics), led by the Department of Defense...
College & University Faculty Team Recommends Paths to Building Competencies and Workforce Strategies for New Lightweighting Technologies.
A new report from leading higher education and workforce experts details a second set of recommendations for colleges and universities to modify current curricula to reflect the knowledge and skills necessary...
The New York State Photonics Board of Officers (NYS Photonics Board) met today at the American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (AIM Photonics) Testing, Assembly and Packaging (TAP) Facility in Rochester. The NYS Photonics Board endorsed Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposed $30 million Photonics Attraction Fund and was updated on the...
The AIM Photonics national photonics initiative based in Rochester, NY, received a nod of encouragement Friday from the Pentagon official overseeing this and other manufacturing institutes nationally.
Project leaders authorized $30 million in state funding on Friday to cover education and workforce development, research and development initiatives...
The New York State Photonics Board took more steps on Friday toward trying to attract more photonics manufacturers to come to the Rochester area.
Governor Andrew Cuomo had announced during his State of the State address in January that he wants to allocate $30 million toward attracting photonics companies to the region.
On Friday, the photonics...
Manufacturers who keep thinking smart manufacturing remains an academic problem run the risk of quick extinction, said panelists gathered for the inaugural Industry 4.0 ThinkTank in Chicago this month.
“It’s everyone’s problem,” said Tom McDermott, executive director of the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII) in Chicago....
What is Integrated Photonics? How will Integrated Photonics impact us? In a new video, AIM Photonics shows the many ways integrated photonics will improve and change our lives in the 21st century.
AIM Photonics Powering the 21st Century with Integrated Photonics
Integrated Photonics, the use of light for applications traditionally addressed...
Fellow awards acknowledge individuals who go above and beyond to push FHE development toward manufacturability and commercialization.
In addition to recognizing these all-stars’ accomplishments, the NextFlex Fellows awards acknowledge that working together alongside fellow NextFlex members will greatly increase the rate of innovation in the FHE...
REMADE, a Manufacturing USA Institute headquartered in Rochester, is leading the way in redefining what it means to be a manufacturer. Short for Reducing Embodied Energy and Decreasing Emissions, REMADE is a consortium of research and industry resources that specialize in materials manufacturing and energy efficiency.
Lightweight, low-cost and flexible electronic systems are the key to next-generation smart technologies for military as well as consumer and commercial applications.
An Air Force Research Laboratory-led project in conjunction with NextFlex, America’s Flexible Hybrid Electronics Institute, has led to the development of a new, flexible Arduino...
Today, LIFT—Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow, a national Manufacturing USA institute, in partnership with Detroit Public Schools Community District and Tennessee Tech University’s iCube, launched MakerMinded, an online Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) learning and educational activity platform for Detroit middle and high school...
