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Cybersecurity

Pay up or lose it all. Thats the message from cybercriminals after a ransomware attack, a growing scourge that threatens the finances and reputations of companies everywhere.

Ransomware infects a companys systems both informational and operational and encrypts all data. The attacker may even threaten to go public with private information...

MxD An Offline Vault
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Cybersecurity

MxD in a new series of articles scans the landscape of technologies and trends fueling manufacturings ongoing digital transformation: Whats here? Whats coming? And whats the impact, including on the workforce? For this story we take a look at edge computing, featuring insights from Google Clouds Manufacturing Industry Manager ...

Students receiving ARM's certified robot training
Cybersecurity, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Jobs, Materials, Photonics, Robotics, Semi-Conductor, Smart Manufacturing, Workforce

Nose presses is not an official metric of workforce recruiting success for the Penn State Digital Foundry on 5th Avenue in New Kensington, PA, but it is hugely symbolic in the quest to expand the manufacturing talent pipeline in communities, according to Sherri McCleary, the Executive Director of the foundry.

A nose presser is a passerby who...

Photo of Kimberly Gibson, America Makes, speaking at America Makes' annual members meeting
Additive Manufacturing, Biomanufacturing, Circular Economy, Cybersecurity, Economy, Innovation, Re-manufacturing, Robotics, Semi-Conductor

America Makes Ecosystem Director Kimberly Gibson, a municipal planner by training, was involved in the national additive manufacturing institute at its inception more than 12 years ago. She saw the proposed innovation institute as a pathway to help reinvent Northeast Ohios manufacturing and industrial base from its legacy of coal, steel, and...

MxD Pandemic
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Cybersecurity

The COVID-19 pandemic fractured the global supply chain in many places, with shortages ranging from PPE to semiconductors to consumer products. But even before the turmoil began in spring 2020, supply chains were vulnerable.

Natural disasters like hurricanes and wildfires and other unexpected developments like labor strikes and political unrest...