These Industries are the Future of Additive Manufacturing
Aerospace and medical industries lead additive manufacturing adoption. Here's why--along with how other industries can catch up. (IW – Patrick Boyd: 11-17-16) Often considered a “futuristic” technology, industrial 3-D printing (also known as additive manufacturing) ...
Closing Tech Gaps Can Fortify Advanced Manufacturing and Save $100 Billion Annually
(Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute – Laura Reilly: 11-18-16) To spur significant innovation and growth in advanced manufacturing, as well as save over $100 billion annually, U.S. industry must rectify currently unmet needs for measurement science ...
Are You Incorporating These Lean Manufacturing Best Practices?
(American Machinist – Megan R. Nichols: 11-2-16) According to the originators of Lean Manufacturing methodology, the five fundamental principles revolve around adding value to products and services, enhancing the value stream from end to end, ...
Digital Tools for the Future Factory
(advancedmanufacturing.org – Patrick Waurzyniak: 11-11-16) Transforming manufacturing with advanced digital tools is well underway, but manufacturers who haven’t adopted Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) or Industrial 4.0 strategies are best advised to take a long ...
How U.S. Manufacturing Is About to Get Smarter
The aim is to make factories more productive, less costly to operate, and more reliable (WSJ – Christopher Mims: 11-13-16) Here’s a paradox of America’s highly automated, increasingly labor-independent manufacturing -- while sophisticated, for the ...
NIST Helps Small Businesses Improve Cybersecurity
NIST provides guidance to help small businesses secure their data and information in the new publication. (NIST – Evelyn Brown: 11-10-16) Small-business owners may think that they are too small to be victims of cyber ...
International Markets Growing Source of Revenue for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
Over the next five years, more than three-quarters of companies surveyed anticipate their revenue from global sales to increase by about 30% on average. (MH&L – Staff: 11-8-16) A recent survey of companies selling outside the ...
Industry 4.0: The Future of Competitiveness in U.S. Manufacturing
(Reshoring Initiative Blog -- Sandy Montalbano D'Amico: 8-20-16) Industry 4.0 is defined as a fourth wave of technological advancement, driven by nine technology advances that will increase manufacturing productivity and increase competitiveness in manufacturing industries ...
This New GE Factory is a Blueprint for the Future of Manufacturing
The brilliant factory is GE’s new take on how we make things. It involves machines are embedded with sensors and connected to the Industrial Internet. The factory uses GE’s Predix software platform to stream data ...
Companies Bringing Manufacturing Jobs Back to US
(IW – Adrienne Selko: 8-25-16) From January 2010 until July 2016 the Reshoring Initiative estimates that 265,000 jobs have come back to the United States from abroad. The Reshoring Initiative’s 2015 Reshoring Report found that the reasons ...
Why Manufacturing Education Needs to Advance, Just Like You Have
Stuck in the Industrial Age, skills training doesn’t place enough emphasis on smart, connected product manufacturing, advanced material development and digital design integration. (IW – Randy Swearer: 8-23-16) If you’ve read the Manufacturing Institute report, you’ve heard ...
‘Smart Operations’ New Key to Manufacturing Excellence
Smart operations use pervasive data collection, advanced analytics, technology investments and deeper collaboration with partners to prepare their value streams for the next industrial revolution. (MH&L – Staff: 8-15-16) Over the next three years, a ...
U.S. Expected to Lead as the Top Manufacturing Nation by 2020
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ –The United States is expected to become the most competitive manufacturing nation over the next five years, with the current leader China sliding into second position, according to the upcoming ...
The Future of Manufacturing: 2020 and Beyond
(IW Research Report – Kronos: 7-27-16) This joint research product between IndustryWeek Custom Research and Kronos shines a light on manufacturing strategy, management practices and investment priorities over the next five years and beyond. While ...
Free Energy Audits for Manufacturers
Is your company interested in saving money through pollution prevention strategies and energy efficiency assessments? PennTAP technical advisors and Penn State students will spend a day at your facility examining manufacturing operations to identify opportunities ...
Penn State Learning Factory
Does your business need some engineering design, prototyping or fabrication work? IMC partners with Penn State Learning Factory to solicit projects each semester. The Learning Factory's mission is to bring the real world into the classroom by ...
