The ARM (Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing) Institute recently presented several individuals from its member consortium with ARM Champion awards during the institute’s 8th Annual Member Meeting, which took place Sept. 23-25 in Pittsburgh, PA. The ARM Champion Awards recognize ARM Members who have gone above and beyond to advocate for institute’s mission and strengthen U.S. manufacturing. ARM Champions are nominated by their fellow members and the ARM Institute team. The institute’s leadership team selects awardees from the nominations.
The 2024 class of ARM Champions celebrates:
- Neil Ashbaugh, New Century Careers
- Gregorio Balandran, Amcor
- Xu Chen, University of Washington
- Lisa Fronczek, NIST
- Frank Henderson, Henderson Sewing
- Stuart Lawrence, Titan Robotics
- Scott Lucas, WSU Tech
- Matt Minner, Catalyst Connection
- Dijam Panigrahi, GridRaster
- John Wen, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
“Our member ecosystem is foundational to the success of the ARM Institute,” noted Jay Douglass, ARM Institute Chief Operating Officer, “We are honored to recognize individual members who have gone above and beyond the scope of membership to further our impact and support our nation. On behalf of the ARM Institute team, I’d like to thank our 2024 class of ARM Champions for their continued commitment and congratulate them on this well-deserved recognition.”
Previously awarded ARM Champions include: Corey Adams (Universal Robots), Nihad Alfaysale (former ARM Institute Government Chief Technology Adviser), Juan Aparicio (Reshape Automation), Maria Araujo (formerly of Johnson & Johnson), Clint Chapman (Yaskawa), Roger Christian (Yaskawa), Michel Conklin (Southwest Bots IQ), Laura Evans (Fanuc), Debbie Franklin (Wichita State University), Shane Groves (Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex), SK Gupta (USC/GrayMatter), Greg Hudas (ARM Institute Government Program Manager), Mingu Kang (ARIS Technology), Jeannine Kunz (SME), Changliu Liu (CMU), Dan Mantz (REC Foundation), Carley Mollica (Lockheed Martin), Tom Mudano (AmSkills), Martin Philo (GrayMatter Robotics), Aaron Prather (ASTM), Ritch Ramey (A3 – Association for Advancing Automation), Curtis Richardson (Spirit AeroSystems), Matt Robinson (Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and ROS-Industrial), Ted Rozier (Festo), Eugen Solowjow (Siemens), and Brian Wilson (Duro UAS).