BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Advanced Manufacturing Technology
- a high technology development in computing and microelectronics, designed to enhance manufacturing capabilities. Advanced manufacturing technology is used in all areas of manufacturing, including design, control, fabrication, and assembly. This family of technologies includes robotics, computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided engineering (CAE), MRP II, automated materials handling systems, electronic data interchange (EDI), computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) systems, flexible manufacturing systems, and group technology.
- Abbr. AMT
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- What's advanced manufacturing? staying competitive through better technology and newer techniques. (Manufacturing).
- It's a manufacturing buzzword, like JIT and kaizen and lean manufacturing and six sigma. And the business backers at Purdue University and elsewhere believe "advanced manufacturing" is what Indiana factories need to succeed in the long-term. Purdue's support of the concept included an Advanced...
- Research articles 2002-07-01
- FIT setting up advanced tech center for military uniforms. (Fashion Institute of Technology establishes Advanced Apparel Manufacturing Technology Demonstration Center)
- FIT Setting Up Advanced Tech Center for Military Uniforms Fashion Institute of Technology is establishing an Advanced Apparel Manufacturing Technology Demonstration Center as the result of a three-year, $5 million to $10 million program funded by the Defense Logistics Agency of the Department...
- Research articles 1987-10-28
- Advanced Manufacturing May Hold Fix for Indiana's Job Woes, Officials Say.
- By Norm Heikens, The Indianapolis Star Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 22--Overlooked in last week's announcement of a coalition to promote Indiana life sciences was manufacturing, the dominant industry in the region. But manufacturing -- specifically advanced manufacturing -- soon ...
- Research articles 2002-02-22
- SCI Systems' Subsidiaries Open Brazil Facility - Advanced Electronic Integration LTDA and Advanced Electronic Technology LTDA - New York Report Pages - Company Operations - Brief Article
- huntsville, ala.-Contract manufacturing leader SCI Systems said its Brazilian subsidiaries: Advanced Electronic Integration LTDA and Advanced Electronic Technology LTDA have occupied a 120,000-square-foot electronics manufacturing services facility in Hortolandia, Brazil.
- Research articles 1998-11-16
- Advanced Power Technology Hosts Senator Gordon Smith for Silicon Carbide Launch; Commitment to Silicon Carbide Fabrication Facility Formally Kicked Off at APT's Bend, Oregon, Site
- BEND, Ore. -- Advanced Power Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:APTI), a leading supplier of high performance power semiconductors, has formally launched the construction of its SiC manufacturing fab with an inauguration event featuring a keynote address by U.S. Senator Gordon Smith (R-OR). This event follows the previous announcement (February 22, 2006)...
- Research articles 2006-04-21
- Entegris Wins 2005 Tekne Award Recognizing Advanced Manufacturing Leadership; Tekne Awards honor top leaders and innovators in Minnesota technology industries
- MINNEAPOLIS -- Entegris, Inc. (Nasdaq:ENTG), today announced it was recognized for its materials science expertise as the best Established Company in Advanced Manufacturing with a 2005 Tekne Award -- a program acknowledging outstanding technology innovations and leaders in Minnesota. Entegris received the award in a Nov. 10 ceremony held at...
- Research articles 2005-11-11
- AAMA Research Conference to focus on advanced tech. (American Apparel Manufacturers Association)
- AAMA Research Conference To Focus on Advanced Tech NEW YORK -- The Apparel Research Conference sponsored by AAMA's Apparel Research Committee will feature "Advanced Apparel Technologies: Blueprint for the Future," Oct. 25 and 26. The AAMA American Apparel Manufacturers Association conference ...
- Research articles 1988-09-14
- Department of Defense News Release : DoD announces new Manufacturing Technology Program
- Today the Department of Defense announced its new Manufacturing Technology ManTech Program for 2008 at the Defense Manufacturing Conference in Las Vegas. John J. Kubricky, deputy under secretary of defense for advanced systems and concepts, explained that the Army, Navy, and Air Force have successfully managed their individual ManTech programs...
- Research articles 2008-03-01
- SIEMENS DEMATIC OPENS ADVANCED ASSEMBLY TECHNOLOGY CENTER.
- Siemens Dematic Electronics Assembly Systems Inc. has opened its new Advanced Assembly Technology AAT Center at its U.S. headquarters near Atlanta. As part of the continued commitment of Siemens AG to spend seven percent of revenues on research and development, the AAT Center ...
- Research articles 2001-12-01
- Human Capital Availability, Competitive Intensity and Manufacturing Priorities in a Sub-Saharan African Economy
- Several studies have been done on the relationships between Human Resources Management HRM practices and manufacturing activities. However, most of these studies have been confirmed to well-developed economies where the focus of FIRM practices is mostly on the investment in human capital to facilitate the use of advanced manufacturing technology....
- White papers 2003-12-01
- Moto, HP, Chartered Deal on Foundry - Motorola to license its HiPerMOS CMOS microprocessor manufacturing technology to Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing and Chartered Silicon Partners, an HP joint venture company - Company Business and Marketing
- Motorola licenses most advanced process technology
- Research articles 1999-03-01
- Advanced Power Technology Announces Additional Consolidation Action
- BEND, Ore. -- Advanced Power Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:APTI), a leading supplier of high performance power semiconductors used in the conditioning and control of electrical power for both switching and RF applications, today announced the planned closure of its facility in Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania. The business management functions and remaining manufacturing activities...
- Research articles 2006-02-23
- The rise and fall of Defense Manufacturing Technology programs
- The Department of Defense's Manufacturing Technology Mantech program was established in the late 1950s "in response to a growing need for advanced production processes in order to produce DOD material more efficiently and more effectively" (6, 8) In 1975, the Secretary of Defense recognizing the Mantech program's potential value...
- Research articles 2005-09-01
- STEP's Future in Manufacturing
- SOFTWARE Jack R. Harris is director, advanced manufacturing technology, for avionics supplier Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, IA), and also the new general manager for PDES Inc. (Charleston, SC), a global consortium of manufacturers, government, and academic members working to advance the development and implementation of STEP (STandard...
- Research articles 2007-04-01
- Firm offers technology for cleaning valve bodies. (Metalcasting News).(Universal Ice Blast Inc.)(Brief Article)
- A company called Universal Ice Blast Inc., Kirkland, WA, is at the center of a three-sided arrangement to test transmission parts on cast parts for automotive transmission. Metaldyne Inc., which manufactures valve bodies, and Ford Motor Co.'s Advanced Manufacturing Technology Development Group are the other participants....
- Research articles 2003-06-01
- Micromachining seen escalating: Okuma dedicates technology center
- America's adventures in space have been a boon to improving life-styles. But there is much more to come, claimed one of the seven original astronauts, retired Lt Gen Thomas Stafford, in keynoting the dedication of the Okuma Center for Advanced Manufacturing Technology in Charlotte NC. He credited the space...
- Research articles 1999-08-01
- SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY: Seagate forms manufacturing group to create the factory of the future.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-13 May 1999-SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY: Seagate forms advanced manufacturing group to create the factory of the future C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:120599 LONDON -- Seagate Technology, the world's leading supplier of disc drives, tape drives and related components with manufacturing ...
- Research articles 1999-05-13
- Mattson Technology Introduces Plasma Etch Tool That Enables Next-Generation IC Structures While Eliminating Hazardous Manufacturing Chemicals
- FREMONT, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 4, 1998--Mattson Technology, a leading supplier of advanced process technology for semiconductor manufacturing, today introduced a novel technology for selectively etching both sides of a semiconductor wafer without using hazardous chemicals. The new tool, the Aspen LiteEtch TSE, etches transistor isolation layers on advanced DRAM, SRAM,...
- Research articles 1998-11-05
- Applied Materials and IMEC enter into strategic research collaboration agreement for process technology; IMEC's Advanced Semiconductor Processing Group to work with Applied Materials' PVD Division to develop advanced metallization technology
- SUNNYVALE, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 19, 1996--Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and IMEC (Leuven, Belgium), an independent research and development organization that develops and licenses microelectronic technology worldwide, today announced that Applied Materials has entered into a three year collaboration agreement to develop advanced metallization process technology critical to 0.25 micron...
- Research articles 1996-08-19
- SPS Completes Development of Manufacturing Process for Advanced Performance, New Generation, Solid Rocket Propellants
- Space Propulsion Systems, Inc. (OTC: SPSY) announced this date that after a rigorous engineering review process, the manufacturing technology for the Company's Advanced Solid Propulsion Systems has been approved for use in the manufacture of the Company's New Generation Solid Rocket Propellants. This technology is already domestically patented, and International...
- Research articles 2006-03-29
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