SME Selects 4 as 2019 Distinguished Faculty Advisors Author: SME Communications July 17, 2019 SME has selected four academic leaders to receive its 2019 Distinguished Faculty Advisor Award. This annual award, established in 2011, recognizes SME’s student chapter faculty advisors for both their service to the organization and ongoing efforts to advance manufacturing and its associated careers on their campuses and in their classrooms.
How Changes in Manufacturing Operations Lead to Changes in Tooling July 2, 2019 There have been important changes at manufacturing companies, and that has led to changes in how they approach tooling and workholding.
Siemens Exec Lays Out Value of Digitization May 6, 2019 At the AeroDef conference in Long Beach, Calif., Daniel Martinez of Siemens Digital Industries patiently describes how OEMs and supply chain members that haven’t yet taken up digitization move into it now.
Manufacturing Careers: Unmasking the Misperceptions Manufacturing is not dirty. Manufacturing is high-tech. Manufacturing pays wells and leads to prosperous careers. Manufacturing is thriving in the United States. How can we change misperceptions about manufacturing? We can counter each statement with facts.
SME Education Foundation Awards 222 Extraordinary Manufacturing and Engineering Students with Scholarships The SME Education Foundation awarded 222 scholarships totaling nearly $550,000 to graduating high school seniors, undergraduates and graduate students currently or planning to attend colleges, universities across the United States and Canada.
The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan: Driving Regional Opportunity The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan has been instrumental in the SME PRIME schools’ program in two Southeast Michigan communities. Since its inception in 1984, the Foundation has distributed more than $1 billion through more than 67,000 grants to nonprofit organizations.
Ford Next Generation Learning and SME PRIME: Synergy and Connection Ford NGL partnered with the SME Education Foundation through a Ford Motor Company Fund investment to develop an SME PRIME (Partnership Response In Manufacturing Education) curriculum at Romeo High School in Romeo, Michigan.
Pfizer Opens New Biologics Clinical Manufacturing Facility in Massachusetts May 31, 2019 Pfizer has announced the opening of a new 175,000 square-foot manufacturing facility in Andover, Massachusetts.
Setting Sights on Holy Grails in AM April 26, 2019 As additive manufacturing (AM) moves from prototypes to mass production, manufacturers are setting their sights on the holy grails—the products and processes that will be game-changers. Many game-changers are already in play.
