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âNose pressesâ is not an official metric of workforce recruiting success for the Penn State Digital Foundry on 5th Avenue in New Kensington, PA, but it is hugely symbolic in the quest to expand the... Read More
Itâs a challenge for any company to efficiently invest in research and development (R&D) for advanced manufacturing applications. Costs are high and success is not a given. Joining industry peers in R... Read More
âRemember Goldilocksânot too fast, not too slow, just right. You ready?â Thatâs Dr. Bob Voigt, a Materials Science and Engineering professor at Penn State University, coaching me on my first casting... Read More
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... Read More
America Makes Ecosystem Director Kimberly Gibson, a municipal planner by training, was involved in the national additive manufacturing institute at its inception more than 12 years ago. She saw the... Read More
âA lot of people think you canât get high performance when youâre using recycled materials, but weâve proven thatâs not true,â says Haley Keith, CEO of MITO Material Solutions. A new product, Fenix... Read More
While the U.S. legacy manufacturing sector continues to build a skilled workforce, secure the domestic supply chain, and widely adopt technological innovations, there is an area in which the U.S. is... Read More
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Sridhar Seetharamanâs parents didnât want him to become a physicist. âMy parents are from a different generation,â said Seetharaman, who moved from India to Sweden with his family when he was only 1... Read More
MxD and LIFT, manufacturing innovation institutes sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense based in Chicago and Detroit, respectively, celebrate a decade of bolstering the vitality of the American... Read More
The Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded $11.3 million dollars to Universal Achemetal Titanium, LLC (UAT) to conduct titanium metal research and development in Montana for the United States Navy... Read More
LIFT, the Detroit-based, Department of Defense national manufacturing innovation institute, today announced that Valencia College will be expanding its job training work by once again offering... Read More
IACMI are pleased to announce the following member representatives who have been elected to serve two-year terms (2024-2025) on the IACMI Consortium Council. The Council manages the activities and... Read More
Biomanufacturing practitioners and researchers describe the norms that should govern the growing, global field, to include safety, security, sustainability, and social responsibility. These â4S... Read More
BioMADE is seeking Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to collaborate on curriculum development for projects accelerating workforce readiness in bioindustrial manufacturing. The projects are developing plug... Read More
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