Press Releases

SME announced that it has recognized 14 young professionals with its 2019 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award.

All five will receive their awards during SME’s May 19 International Awards Gala in Detroit.

Workforce challenges and advanced technologies to be featured at East Coast manufacturing event

AeroDef Manufacturing returns to Long Beach in April 2019.

The world’s leading additive manufacturing event will draw 7,000 industry professionals and executives to Detroit.

New Report Addresses Financial, Business Impacts of Employee Turnover on Manufacturers

HOUSTEX, the Southwest’s leading manufacturing trade show, once again returns to Houston, Feb. 26-28, at the George R. Brown Convention Center.

The application process for the SME Education Foundation scholarships remains open until Feb. 1, 2019. Eligible students include high school seniors, undergraduates and graduate students pursuing degrees in advanced manufacturing and related fields at two and four-year colleges.

In addition to its five officers of the Board of Directors, SME has installed eight international directors to serve on the governing body of the organization. Elected by the entire voting membership of SME, the directors began their terms this month.

Tooling U-SME, a leading provider of manufacturing training solutions, and the National Institute for Metalworking Skills, the manufacturing industry’s certifying body of skills standards and credentials for machining and industrial maintenance, have introduced a series of streamlined online training classes designed to help further build a skilled manufacturing workforce.