Today, LIFT—Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow, a national Manufacturing USA institute, in partnership with Detroit Public Schools Community District and Tennessee Tech University’s iCube, launched MakerMinded, an online Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) learning and educational activity platform for Detroit middle and high school...
Manufacturing USA today released its 2016 Annual Report to Congress. The report describes the program’s work in helping to move discoveries in the nation’s universities and research laboratories to the shop floor here in America. It highlights the nine Manufacturing USA institutes that were active in fiscal year 2016, and documents the network's...
Lightweight Innovations For Tomorrow (LIFT) announces a new internship program for local college students, providing them with real-world, hands-on experience in the cutting edge advanced manufacturing industry.
Students participating in LIFT’s internship program will be mentored by in-house LIFT engineers.
The internship program is designed...
The Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII), part of the Manufacturing USA network, and McKinsey & Company have launched the North American Digital Capability Center (DCC), a space for hands-on training in next-generation digital manufacturing technology. Based in Chicago, the center will help established, small, and start-up...
Expanding efforts focused on strengthening US-based manufacturing, the Department of Defense announced the award of a new public-private Manufacturing USA institute to Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI) today. This new institute will be the 12th Manufacturing USA institute established, with the Department of Defense now leading...
