NAMII's Work on Display at Upcoming Events
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. -- The National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining and the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute will review projects and initiatives that are making an impact in Pennsylvania during a news conference Friday, the concluding day of the 23rd annual Showcase for Commerce event, sponsored by the Johnstown/Cambria Chamber of Commerce.
Since the announcement last August that the contract for NAMII, based in Youngstown, would be awarded to the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining, NAMII "has attracted great industry interest and has added members to this public-private partnership to successfully create a highly collaborative infrastructure for the open exchange of additive manufacturing information and research,” said Ralph Resnick, NCDMM president and founding director of NAMII. Activities to date have included conducting, awarding and kicking off its initial call for projects, as well as conducting its first project management review.
"NAMII has achieved much in a very short amount of time and has become a center of excellence for additive manufacturing that has brought a national spotlight to the TechBelt region, most notably Pennsylvania’s manufacturing sector, our academic community, and our talented and skilled workforce,” Resnick said. Within hours of the official award announcement of NAMII to NCDMM, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers announced it would hold its 2013 RAPID Additive Manufacturing Solutions Event, a conference and exposition featuring 3D printing and 3D imaging technologies, next month in Pittsburgh, he noted.
The RAPID conference and expo will take place June 10-13 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.
Ed Morris, NAMII director and NCDMM vice president, will be one of three opening keynote speakers at the event. Morris will speak June 11 on “The Future of Additive Manufacturing and an Introduction to NAMII,” along with Brett Lambert, deputy assistant secretary of defense for manufacturing and industrial base policy, U.S. Department of Defense, and Michael F. Molnar, chief manufacturing officer for the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Rob Gorham, NAMII deputy director of technology, will also present the “NAMII Overview Roadmap.” Throughout the entire event NAMII and NCDMM representatives will be available at Booth 902.
Following RAPID, a group of NAMII university members will host a series of "University Regional Workshops in Additive Manufacturing” to showcase the assets of these partner universities and to further develop collaboration in additive manufacturing among the university, industry, and government members. The first workshop will be held Sept. 10 at Lehigh University in Bethlehem. The regional group of universities includes Penn State, the University of Pittsburgh, Robert Morris, Lehigh, Carnegie Mellon, Philadelphia University, Youngstown State, Kent State, the University of Toledo, the University of Akron, Case Western Reserve, and the Robert C. Byrd Institute.
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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