Graphic with headshots of Suzy Teele, Maria Curry-Nkansah, Kathie Leonard, and Jeff Winters from the SXSW panel
Smart Industry
Automation, Digital Manufacturing, Event, Fabrics, Manufacturing Jobs, Smart Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Workforce
SXSW Quartet Contends With Last Five Years of Change in Manufacturing

Experts with diverse manufacturing backgrounds from the 91¿´Æ¬ network, presenting at the South by Southwest Conference in Austin, Texas, last month, explored U.S. manufacturing, what technologies the next few decades will bring, and what steps manufacturers big and small can take to future-proof their business.

While manufacturing has...

Thumbnail image with a photo of Olivia Morales and the CESMII logo
Industry Today
Automation, Digital Manufacturing, Manufacturing Jobs, Modern Makers
Raised by Women Redefining Normal
Olivia Morales: A manufacturing landscape that is future proof.

International Women’s Day is, in many ways, just another day. It’s not a big holiday that garners a lot of attention, and is likely overlooked. If you’d asked me a month ago what its date was, I wouldn’t have been able to tell you. But I’m a woman! Shouldn’t I be aware of a day that...

Industry Week
COVID-19, Digital Manufacturing
Lessons Learned: 2020, COVID-19 and the Future of Manufacturing

It goes without saying that 2020 has been a particularly interesting year.

The challenges, constraints and complex (and often contradictory) safety and productivity requirements COVID-19 presented the manufacturing industry have tested its people, its processes and its technologies like never before. It fundamentally changed the way the industry...

SME
Additive Manufacturing, Composites, Digital Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Smart Manufacturing
30 Leaders Transforming Manufacturing

As manufacturing undergoes the revolutionary changes of the Digital Age, the people with the keenest leadership skills have taken up the charge to modernize the industry so that it leverages the cloud and Big Data and is connected and smart. Their success encourages the rest of the manufacturing world to follow.

To assemble this list of leaders...

Department of Energy
Circular Economy, Composites, Cybersecurity, Digital Manufacturing, Semi-Conductor, Sustainable Manufacturing
DOE Awards $3.6 Million to Strengthen Education and Workforce Development in the Domestic Manufacturing Industry

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced awards to five of its Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institutes to fund the acceleration of education and workforce development (EWD) programs that support domestic manufacturing. Specifically, this funding will be used to expand EWD services to broader communities across our nation and...