Gary Fedder, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in the United States, has been a pivotal figure in advanced manufacturing for over 30 years. As faculty director of the Manufacturing Futures Institute (MFI) at CMU and...

Organizations and companies in the U.S. industrial base, including academia and startups, have been invited to tap the capabilities of the Advanced Metallic Production and Processing, or AMPP, Center that the Leading Innovations For Tomorrow, or LIFT , program has established in Detroit.

The center can rapidly bring concepts of new materials to...

LIFT, the Department of Defense-supported national advanced materials manufacturing innovation institute, has officially opened the Advanced Metallic Production and Processing center in Detroit. This facility will play a critical role in strengthening the U.S. industrial base by accelerating the design, development, and deployment of novel...

Experts with diverse manufacturing backgrounds from the Manufacturing USA network, presenting at the South by Southwest Conference in Austin, Texas, last month, explored U.S. manufacturing, what technologies the next few decades will bring, and what steps manufacturers big and small can take to future-proof their business.

While manufacturing has...

International Women’s Day is, in many ways, just another day. It’s not a big holiday that garners a lot of attention, and is likely overlooked. If you’d asked me a month ago what its date was, I wouldn’t have been able to tell you. But I’m a woman! Shouldn’t I be aware of a day that...