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Artificial Intelligence, Circular Economy, Composites, Digital Manufacturing, Energy, Flexible Hybrid Electronics, Re-manufacturing, Recycling, Smart Manufacturing, Sustainability, Sustainable Manufacturing
Reimagining Industrial Energy Use With Digital Technology

Today, manufacturing accounts for 25 percent of U.S. energy consumption and carbon emissions, and the industrial sector as a whole is the single largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in the nation, at 30 percent. Changing how industry produces materials and products is...

Local Motors Olli
Composites
A process for the viable commercial production of 3D printed cars has arrived. Local Motors created Olli, the first 3D-printed low-speed driverless minibus, in 2016. To date, Olli vehicles have been constructed and deployed to roughly a dozen campus settings such as business parks, hospitals and universities. Olli has about 90 percent fewer parts...
IACMI Workforce Development
Composites, Workforce

IACMI has leveraged institute partnerships, members, and IACMI facilities to create programs that grow the composites workforce by providing composites-related training opportunities.

HOSTED 100 INTERNSHIP PLACEMENTS

IACMI hosts interns each year at IACMI partner and member locations. Intern hosts include:

TRAINED 2,000 PARTICIPANTS

the...

IACMI Transportation
Composites, Materials

IACMI (the composites institute) member, Local Motors, is applying the advantages of additive manufacturing to the large-scale needs of automotive manufacturing. Transforming an industry that has historically relied on mass production techniques, its work is matching the pace of technology discovery and responding to quickly changing customer...