Our Process Intensification (PI) Program, established in 2020, was the first NIIMBL-Led Program, and has been led by Dr. John Erickson since its inception. Over the past six years, the program has grown to include most of our large industry member companies and more than 400 world class subject matter experts have contributed to it. In the past year, the program’s two major platforms have been completed: a process intensification test bed in Newark, DE and a design for a next generation manufacturing facility.
Dr. Erickson has been gradually reducing his hours with NIIMBL over the past four years, and he has requested that leadership of the program be passed on to someone else, so he can continue that trajectory of working fewer hours. Dr. Erickson has demonstrated great leadership of the program and helped catalyze the community to create a significant number of deliverables on a variety of needs articulated by industry and NIIMBL is grateful to him for his leadership and vision.