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Registration is now open for IACMI's Winter 2021 Virtual Members Meeting!
Make plans to join us virtually February 16-18, 2021 for the Winter 2021 Members Meeting.
The virtual IACMI Members Meeting will feature high-level speakers, panel discussions, project reports, and breakout sessions. Working Group meetings will focus on market-driven themes and advanced technology.
Plenty of networking opportunities with other attendees will be available – a key aspect of every successful IACMI Member Meeting experience.
Inside Oak Ridge's 3D-printed machine tool moonshot
The widespread outsourcing of large machine castings has led a collaborative team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to tackle the machine tool supply chain.
This was made possible thanks to ACE (America's Cutting Edge) program, a new collaboration between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Department of Defense's Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment Program.
Read more here.
IMTS Spark Showcase ETC Talks - Moonshot: Computer Control for Concrete Base Machine Tool
December 7, 2020 | 2:00PM - 2:45PM ET | Virtual Event
When the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL) sets a bold goal — such as 3D printing the Strati electric car live at IMTS 2014 — they call it a moonshot. IMTS spark will witness a moonshot that can change the trajectory of the U.S. machine tool industry. The “launching pad” of this effort is a 3D printed machine tool base with damping that is an order of magnitude higher than traditional castings.
In this discussion, the control and interface design for the concrete base machine tool are presented. The architecture developed leverages a number of open-source projects, including MachineKit and the Robot Operating System (ROS). This open architecture, along with the ability to embed sensors into the concrete base, provides unique opportunities for both control of the tool and process monitoring. It also provides a platform that is easily extensible and enables robust, high-bandwidth multi-machine communication.
You can register here, but to do so, you must create a free IMTS MySpark Planner account.
On November 17, another IMTS Spark event featured a new DOD-Driven IACMI Digital CNC + Augmented CAM Workforce Training Program. Click here for more details and to watch the recording.
Join IACMI's Dale Brosius as he chairs Day One of JEC Summit Sports & Health - Connect
IACMI Chief Commercialization Officer Dale Brosius will be chairing the "Current Trends and Innovations in Sports & Health Composite Applications" session during the JEC Summit Sports & Health - Connect on Tuesday, December 8 beginning at 10AM ET.
From winter sports, to water activities, to tracks, composite materials are omnipresent in physical activities through equipment but also medical devices for users. Whether for amateurs or professionals, for able-bodied athletes or handicapable ones, composite materials' unique properties have made them a staple of innovative projects in these fields. This particular session will give an outlook into current and future endeavors involving composite materials.
The JEC Summit Sports & Health - Connect 3-day agenda includes:
The conference program is tailored for professionals willing to increase their knowledge on the potential of composite materials.
Register here to learn more about the opportunities and challenges composites bring to the sports and medical fields!
ICYMI: Webinar recording available, well worth the time
About 15 minutes into the Careers in Composites webinar, Knoxville attorney Bill Mason’s 16-year-old grandson had an Aha! moment. It came as he watched a two-minute video interview with a current Utah State engineering student who, as a high school student, enrolled in Davis Technical College’s Composite Materials Technology program and wound up graduating from Davis Tech, finishing high school and earning an associate’s degree, all in the same year.
Mason was watching the webinar alongside his grandson when he picked up on the teen’s attitude shift.
The fast-paced, hour-long webinar targeted high school and college students exploring future career options, composites industry veterans looking to expand their expertise and advance their employment opportunities, currently employed individuals considering a career change and adults who work with youth.
UT helping to protect and secure new wave of manufacturing
The University of Tennessee has joined a new institute aimed at solving the biggest challenges facing cybersecurity in the U.S. manufacturing industry: the Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CyManII). This $111-million US Department of Energy (DOE)-backed public-private partnership is led by the University of Texas at San Antonio.
UT’s lead researcher with CyManII is Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Professor Mingzhou Jin.
Jin will lead efforts from faculty experts in both the Tickle College of Engineering and Haslam College of Business to use their strengths in cybersecurity, supply chain resiliency, automation, and energy efficiency to better secure vital US industries and initiatives.
Advanced manufacturing, which is taking on an increasing role as a key part of America’s economy, is well established as one of UT’s most successful areas of research and expertise, reaching across several colleges at the university, including several collaborations with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and IACMI—The Composites Institute. Read more here.
IACMI CEO John Hopkins to speak at TAEBC's Opportunities in Energy 2020 The Tennessee Advanced Energy Business Council (TAEBC) will feature IACMI CEO John Hopkins during its upcoming Opportunities in Energy 2020 event happening on Tuesday, December 8 at 3PM ET.
This virtual event will focus discussions on making Tennessee a destination for the electric vehicle supply chain and provide a preview of TAEBC's Advanced Energy Economic Impact Report.
TAEBC champions advanced energy as an economic development and job creation strategy for the state of Tennessee.
DOE selects two IACMI-affiliated High Performance Computing projects to bolster U.S. manufacturing The U.S. Department of Energy announced funding for two-IACMI affiliated projects, CHZ Technologies, LLC and Raytheon Technologies Research Center (RTRC), to use the U.S. National Laboratories' supercomputing resources to strengthen domestic manufacturing. Through DOE’s High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) program, these competitively selected projects will use advanced modeling, simulation, and data analysis to achieve energy, material, and cost savings in manufacturing.
Several IACMI members also received awards including Ford Motor Company, General Electric, and ESI North America.
Read more here.
Pictured: NREL researcher Robynne Murray works on a thermoplastic composite turbine blade at the Composites Manufacturing Education and Technology Facility at NREL’s Flatirons Campus.
IACMI Wind Turbines Technology Area Director Derek Berry, NREL team advanced manufacturing research moves blades toward recyclability A new material for wind blades that can be recycled could transform the wind industry, rendering renewable energy more sustainable than ever before while lowering costs in the process.
IACMI members and partners demonstrated advantages to moving away from the thermoset resin system for making wind blades and instead validated the use of thermoplastic resin.
This material increases recyclability, enables longer, lighter-weight, and lower-cost blades, and could also allow manufactures to build blades on site alleviating the problem of how to transport them from a manufacturing facility.
Read more here.
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