To strengthen the nation’s response to COVID-19 and ensure manufacturers are poised to lead the recovery and renewal of the American economy, the National Association of Manufacturers released the “American Renewal Action Plan.”  

As part of its continued effort to garner the innovation of the additive manufacturing (AM) industry to deliver safe and effective solutions to front line workers across the country, America Makes is announcing two challenges.

Are you a manufacturer researching ways to improve and increase productivity, as your cast parts become more complex?

Knowing the environment, or being aware of your surroundings, is key to many a task. It’s at least one of the ways we express the importance of having all the information we need in order to reach a goal.

With the resurgence of manufacturing in the United States has come a high demand for flexible quality inspection systems in the production environment. 

By considering the pattern of all accidents, including those near misses, a predictive model can be created, isolating the cultural root causes of workplace injury and larger scale disasters.

Automation may seem like a relatively modern concept, with its buzzworthy contribution to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and already monumental importance to the future of global enterprise. However, the technological birth of automation as we know it today dates
back centuries.
 

The award is presented by the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association.

If someone gets hurt, you are not doing your job.