MxD announces that cybersecurity expert Jon Powvens has been named director of MxD Cyber: The National Center for Cybersecurity in Manufacturing. Powvens will serve as director of cybersecurity for the full range of MxD’s projects and engineering activities.
“We are excited to welcome Powvens to the team to lead MxD Cyber,” said Chandra Brown...
MxD has been awarded $15 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Defense via the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act to address critical public health and infrastructure needs and to support manufacturing as it mobilizes in response to COVID-19.
MxD’s three CARES Act-funded programs will focus on supply chain...
In 2017, MxD and ManpowerGroup released a digital workforce taxonomy, a groundbreaking analysis that identified 165 new data-centric manufacturing jobs—roles like “collaborative robotics technician” and “predictive maintenance systems specialist.”
The workforce playbook includes job role descriptions and educational requirements for each role...
The nation’s digital manufacturing institute, MxD, has released The Hiring Guide: Cybersecurity in Manufacturing, a ground-breaking guide to help U.S. manufacturers build the workforce they need to protect the industry from growing cyber threats.
The Hiring Guide is available for free download at mxdusa.org/HiringGuide. A webinar on the guide...
With most states relaxing COVID-19 restrictions, factories around the U.S. are coming back online. But there are challenges when restarting manufacturing facilities that have been shut down for months on end.
You can’t just flip a switch to get everything back to normal.
Most manufacturers already know that. They have shutdown and startup...
