A little over two years ago, NIIMBL, a manufacturing USA institute, began with a vision to accelerate biopharmaceutical manufacturing innovation in the United States. Stakeholders from all areas of the biopharmaceutical community have come together to put that vision into motion. The community has focused on the technologies and training programs...

UI LABS announced today that its two labs — the City Tech Collaborative and the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII), a Manufacturing USA institute, — will stand as independent organizations, now that both have achieved strong momentum and robust fiscal health.

DMDII, which launched in 2014 with $80 million in funding from...

Headquartered at MIT, AIM Photonics Academy is embarking on an ambitious plan to develop a technician-training program in emerging technologies, attempting to answer the question of whether an institute known for educating world-leading scientists and engineers can play a role in helping train an outstanding technician workforce.

AIM Academy is...

You don’t need to gaze into a crystal ball to ascertain what’s on the horizon for manufacturing as the innovations of tomorrow are being made possible today through greater adoption of transformative technologies. Many are a cluster of technologies under the umbrella of Industry 4.0, which is often defined as the fourth industrial revolution in...

The Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII) announced today that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded $10 million in funding this year and is pledging at least $20 million more over the next five years to drive the digital future of manufacturing.

This award is part of a multi-year, follow-on agreement with a...