Energy, Smart Manufacturing, Workforce

CESMII - the Smart Manufacturing Institute announced plans to formally launch an Affinity Group focused on the needs of small-to-medium sized manufacturing enterprises. This announcement is a continuation of the institute’s efforts to engage and empower smaller manufacturers, further demonstrated by CESMII’s previous commitment to make institute...

Recycling

A team led by Materials Science and Engineering Professor Alan Luo began work this summer on two recycling efficiency projects funded by the Reducing EMbodied-Energy And Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Institute.

According to The Aluminum Association, nearly 40 percent of the North American aluminum supply is now created through secondary production...

ARM
Robotics

ARM (Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing) is pleased to announce six new selected projects from its fourth Technology Project Call that took place earlier in 2019. With the selection of these six projects, more than 40% of ARM Members are involved in one or more project. Pending final negotiations, ARM plans to provide more than $2.5M in funding...

Additive Manufacturing

America Makes proudly welcomes Brandon Ribic, Ph.D., as its new Technology Director, effective today. Dr. Ribic fills the position previously held by John Wilczynski before being named America Makes Executive Director in June of this year.

Driven by the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM), America Makes is the national...

Department of Defense
Automation, Biomanufacturing, Composites, Design, Economy, Education, Energy, IIOT, Impact, Innovation, Materials, Network, Photonics, Process, Security, Sustainability, Workforce

The Department of Defense is announcing a request for information (RFI) to identify partnership opportunities for a new Manufacturing Innovation Institute dedicated to synthetic biology, or SynBio, for non-biomedical applications. The SynBio institute aims to deliver new capabilities by "scaling-up" critical bio-manufacturing processes and related...