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.
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...
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 ...
Manufacturing researcher TechSolve Cincinnati and its project team have been awarded a $6 million grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD) to work on advanced machining technology for grinding. As part of NIST's 2002 Advanced Technology Program ATP competition award, the $6 million grant will...
The University of Texas today announced the Advanced Manufacturing Program MSE AM will be offered by the Department of Mechanical Engineering in conjunction with the Advanced Manufacturing Center. Upon completion of the program requirements (a total of 33 credit hours resulting from eight semester-long courses, 24 credits),...
MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST, through its Advanced Technology Program ATP, has agreed to provide up to $2 million to OFS Laboratories to support the development of new processes for manufacturing high power fiber lasers in their state-of-the-art laboratories and manufacturing facilities in...
IRVINE, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 16, 1998--Newport Corp. (Nasdaq:NEWP) Friday announced that it has been selected by the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST to take part in its Advanced Technology Program ATP on Advanced Processes For Photonic Manufacturing. The three-year ATP project, involving three other companies -- SDL Inc.,...
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.
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...
northbrook, ill -- An Advanced Embedded Passives Technology Consortium has won a major award to help push the technology. The Interconnection Technology Research Institute ITRI, in collaboration with the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences NCMS, the National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative NEMI and a dozen industry partners, has won a...
WASHINGTON -- The Commerce Department has doled out more than $90 million in contracts to companies and consortia for work in a number of areas including advanced manufacturing, electronics, superconductivity and advanced materials as part of the second round of awards in its highly touted Advanced Technology Program ATM. ...
LEIXLIP, Ireland -- Extending its leadership in chip making technology, Intel Corporation today opened an advanced, high-volume semiconductor manufacturing facility in Leixlip, Ireland. The event marks Intel's third chip factory using its advanced 65nm process technology and the industry's first chip factory in Europe producing 65nm chips in high volume.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA, the agency that played a central role in restoring U.S. technology competitiveness in the 1990s, is in the early stages of investigating a new manufacturing research initiative. Manufacturing technology trade associations and defense industry executives are working with DARPA's Defense Science Office to...
BROOKFIELD, Conn. -- Photronics, Inc. (Nasdaq:PLAB), a worldwide leader in supplying innovative imaging technology solutions for the global electronics industry, today announced an addition to its management team designed to further enhance the global integration of the Company's advanced technology development and high end manufacturing. The appointment of Vijay Persaud...
DevStudios International Inc. (TSX VENTURE: DVE) ("DevStudios"), announces the launch of its manufacturing software division, DevStudios Manufacturing Inc. The software product that will be developed and launched by DevStudios Manufacturing Inc. is ShivaTM Advanced Manufacturing Management System. ShivaTM offers manufacturing enterprises a complete management solution which includes modules that cover...
Polymer Technologies Inc. PTI of Clifton, New Jersey, has announced that it is leading a new national research program to develop an advanced metal injection molding MIM design and manufacturing process. The program is being cosponsored by PTI and the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST under its Advanced...
INTRODUCTION In today's economy, successful manufacturing firms must be strategically poised to take advantage of constantly changing market opportunities and defend against competition [4]. One of the most significant strategic decisions that a manufacturing firm must make is how to allocate scarce investment resources among manufacturing processes and projects....
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...
The Advanced Materials, Manufacturing, and Testing Information Analysis Center (AMM-TIAC), Rome, N.Y., is the Department of Defense's newest Information Analysis Center IAC. It represents a merger of three former IACs: Advanced Materials and Processes Technology AMPTIAC, Manufacturing Technology MTIAC, and Nondestructive Testing NTIAC. AMMTIAC Contracting...
