Depending on which survey or poll you read, manufacturers are either on the edge of despair over the workforce and attracting viable candidates or euphoric over tax cuts and improved capital spending. However, the real state of manufacturing in the process industries today is far more balanced and optimistic than pundits would have you believe...

As part of today’s Business Roundtable CEO Innovation Summit, top leaders from business and government participated in a panel discussion on “Revolutionizing Manufacturing.” The conversation featured James Keane, President and CEO of Steelcase, Blake Moret, President and CEO of Rockwell Automation, and Mike Molnar, Founding Director of the Office...

College & University Faculty Team Concludes Series of Recommendations Addressing Competencies and Workforce Strategies for New Lightweighting Technologies

Higher education and industry need to work together to adapt current curricula to reflect the knowledge and skills necessary to thrive in work environments deploying new lightweighting...

America Makes, a Manufacturing USA institute, and the Robert C. Byrd Institute, in partnership with Tooling U-SME, the National Coalition of Advanced Technology Centers, and AST2, proudly announce that the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Apprenticeship has officially approved their first-ever, industry-vetted Additive Manufacturing (AM)...

America Makes and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) today presented their Standardization Roadmap for Additive Manufacturing (Version 2.0) in Frankfurt, Germany, at the Formnext Conference, one of the industry’s premier events. Developed by the America Makes & ANSI Additive Manufacturing Standardization Collaborative (AMSC) – with...