The American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (AIM Photonics) and Analog Photonics (AP) today announced the release of the AP SUNY Process Design Kit v2.0a (APSUNY_PDKv2.0a). In this release, Analog Photonics (AP) expanded the comprehensive set of Silicon Photonics Integrated Circuit (PIC) component libraries within SUNY Poly’s...
John Disharoon, a Catarpillar executive and the new Chairman of Remanufacturing Industries Council, sees the establishment of the REMADE Institute as a crucial development. According to Disharoon, “this private/public consortium of academia, industry, trade associations, national research laboratories, states and the US Department of Energy is...
The American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (AIM Photonics) today announced that a number of the initiative’s leading researchers, scientists from a number of its corporate partners, and supporting staff will attend the SPIE Photonics West conference and exhibition, which is taking place January 27 through February 1 in San...
At a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Disrupter Series, The Internet of Things, Manufacturing and Innovation, Dr. Thomas R. Kurfess stated, “Programs such as Manufacturing USA that bring together collaborative teams from industry, government and academe are not only bringing the Internet of Things into the manufacturing world...
The new Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow (LIFT) and the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) manufacturing innovation facility will be showcased at next week’s North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The new federally designated testing and training facility for commercializing lightweight metal and...
Lightweight Innovations For Tomorrow (LIFT), a Manufacturing USA institute, today announced the first group of seven soldiers to graduate from its “Operation Next” Advanced Manufacturing Certification Program.
“Operation Next” is designed to provide military service members the opportunity to pursue industry-driven education...
Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Quinsigamond Community College will launch the second AIM Photonics Academy Lab for Education & Application Prototypes (LEAP). The comprehensive joint laboratory will support the growth of the burgeoning integrated photonics industry across the Northeast, while also providing training and education to help build...
The Digital Manufacturing Design and Innovation Institute (DMDII) has announced that it is opening its floor to manufacturers and academic institutions needing to quickly test process improvements.
Engineers from Rolls-Royce tested three new manufacturing tools and processes at DMDII. What would have taken three months to accomplish at the...
Can BioFabUSA, the Advanced Regenerative Institute, help over 120,000 Americans who are waiting for a donated organ? The list gets longer all the time. Twenty-two of them die each day, and many of those lucky enough to make it perish from routine illnesses because their immune systems have been hobbled by drugs to prevent the rejection of the...
The Youngstown Business Incubator, along with America Makes, and Team NEO, have been awarded a grant from the Burton D. Morgan Foundation to develop an infrastructure and provide commercialization services for technologies related to Additive Manufacturing (AM). This program will focus on commercializing the Intellectual Property resulting from...
Ricardo Defense Systems, LLC, (RDS) and Lightweight Innovations For Tomorrow (LIFT), a Manufacturing USA institute, announced today the successful completion of their pilot project to retrofit 10 Michigan National Guard vehicles with RDS’s optimized ABS (antilock braking system) and ESC (electronic stability control) to reduce High Mobility...
Manufacturing USA today released its 2016 Annual Report to Congress. The report describes the program’s work in helping to move discoveries in the nation’s universities and research laboratories to the shop floor here in America. It highlights the nine Manufacturing USA institutes that were active in fiscal year 2016, and documents the network's...
Dean Kamen explained to IndustryWeek how his vision for bringing regenerative medicine to full-scale production led him to find the necessary resources and leadership that culminated in the creation of Advanced Manufacturing Regenerative Institute/BIOFabUSA. The new Manufacturing USA institute focuses on regenerative medicine – building new organs...
Lightweight Innovations For Tomorrow (LIFT) announces a new internship program for local college students, providing them with real-world, hands-on experience in the cutting edge advanced manufacturing industry.
Students participating in LIFT’s internship program will be mentored by in-house LIFT engineers.
The internship program is designed...
The National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals ( NIIMBL) is moving its headquarters into the University of Delaware’s new Biopharmaceutical Innovation Building, which is scheduled to open in 2020. NIIMBL participated in the groundbreaking ceremony for the building on Monday.
A rendering of the Biopharmaceutical...
