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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 resiliency and transparency, rapid and secure medical device deployment, and pharmaceutical industry production optimization. Even before the pandemic temporarily closed factories and exposed supply chain shortcomings, American manufacturers were experiencing
LIFT, the Detroit-based, Department of Defense-supported national manufacturing innovation institute and part of the Manufacturing USA network, today opened its “Operation Next” advanced manufacturing certification program to industry for the first time to support small and medium-sized manufacturers recovering from the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The new civilian program, funded through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and awarded to LIFT by the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology, will support the training
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LIFT’s Operation Next brings together companies and talent by preparing separating service men and women and members of the National Guard and Reserves with the skills needed to thrive in an advanced manufacturing career. This panel discussion will deep dive into the Operation Next program and curriculum, it’s success as an initial pilot program at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky and its expansion to serve military members and their spouses across the country. Join us to learn more about this program supporting our military men and women just in time for Veterans Day. Read more
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, Chief Executive Officer of MxD. “If we want American manufacturing to push through this global pandemic and thrive beyond it, we need to invest in substantial cybersecurity practices across the industry. MxD’s efforts in educating small manufacturers
… that you’ve probably heard discussed repeatedly at ARMI summits is the value of standards. The development of standards is a foundational framework necessary to support the innovative growth of any budding industry. Standards enable interdisciplinary groups to compare their efforts, collaborate, and build upon each other’s work in a pre-competitive manner. They provide wisdom accumulated from the combined experience of experts involved in drafting the standard, which … through the citation of issues to be aware of during the creation of the next generative of innovative products. ARMI | BioFabUSA is currently working with a BioFabUSA member, the Standards Coordinating Body (SCB) , on a huge undertaking for the entire tissue-engineering and regenerative …
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 Ohio-based America Makes'project calls, and will leverage the extensive resources already available for entrepreneurship and technology transfer. The goal of this program is to expand the cluster of AM startup companies, develop a global business
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… USA? Join the innovation revolution. Learn how Manufacturing USA accelerates critical manufacturing technology commercialization and workforce readiness. Get to know its 16 different institutes. Hear about member benefits with access to IP sharing, use of the latest technology, and RFP submissions to U.S. government R&D projects. Hear about this vast network comprised of manufacturers, engineering firms, nonprofits, academic institutions; and local state and federal government partners. In 2020, …
Dean Kamen, world-renown inventor, humanitarian and Founder of DEKA Research & Development and FIRST® has just unleashed “ARMI,” an organization that is turning advancements in regenerative medicine into a full-scale biofabrication industry. Explore a future where the mass production of human kidneys, livers, and lungs, fabricated on demand from the recipients’ own cells becomes an everyday reality -- saving lives and curing chronic conditions. Part of the IEEE Tech for Humanity Series. Read more...
… for optical communications and networking professionals, AIM Photonics leaders plan to share integrated silicon photonics-based research and development updates, highlighting the industry-leading photonics Process Design Kit (PDK), which was recently updated to expand the …
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MxD will be participating in the 25th Annual ARC Industry Forum being held in February 2021. Propelled by recent global health and economic crises, industrial innovation is accelerating. Leading companies had progressed along their digital transformation journey and were able to quickly adapt to the changed business reality. They supported numbers of remote connected workers far earlier than expected, and leveraged wearables and other tech to support the remaining frontline workers in the plant. With what they have learned, they are now re-thinking how to manage operations using shared data