America Makes, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, has hired Edward D. Herderick as its new director of education and workforce development.
He is responsible for providing strategy and program management leadership in education and workforce development for customer project initiatives, conducting business development and...
Applied Dynamics International (ADI) has been selected by MxD to lead the design and installation of an Integrated Open Process Automation (OPA) Testbed at the MxD factory floor in Chicago, Illinois. The project, scheduled to be completed in mid-2025, is a collaboration with MxD, Siemens, and the University of Michigan’s Barton Research Group...
An Arizona State University-led initiative aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions in manufacturing has announced its first projects toward decarbonizing the American industry. In partnership with the United States Department of Energy, five jumpstart projects have been selected to advance the reduction of manufacturing carbon dioxide emissions...
What I learned over 40 years in manufacturing is that innovation and manufacturing are intertwined. Brilliant scientists and engineers invented some of the world’s most innovative and impactful products, and many of them need to be manufactured on innovative processes. But in many cases the knowledge that we gain by manufacturing those products...
High-Altitude, Low-Opening (HALO) parachute jumpers from Air Force Special Operations Command are sporting new headbands, woven from advanced fibers that measure and report the wearers’ vital signs, transmitting the data to a tablet or other device nearby.
“We can measure body temperature, heart rate, and SpO2 [blood oxygen saturation] and...
