Robotics, Workforce

The ARM (Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing) Institute is pleased to announce the selection of eleven new technology projects. ARM Institute projects bridge the gap between industry, government, and academia to spur critical innovations in advanced robotics for manufacturing.

ARM Institute projects are selected from the Institute’s Project Calls...

Additive Manufacturing

It’s called Foundry 4.0—a partnership between the Defense Logistics Agency and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM), and the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) and Youngstown State University. The idea is to provide American-based foundries with a competitive edge in technology while optimizing productivity, output...

Education

The Rapid Advancement in Process Intensification Deployment ( RAPID ) Manufacturing Institute — an entity of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) — has signed ExxonMobil as the exclusive Title Sponsor of RAPID’s ChemE Cube Competition. In the competition, teams of undergraduate students design and build a functioning modular process...

Manufacturing, Photonics, Semi-Conductor, Supply Chain

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has entered into a cooperative research and development agreement with AIM Photonics that will give chip developers a critical new tool for designing faster chips that use both optical and electrical signals to transmit information. Called integrated photonic...