New public private partnership to help U.S. manufacturing innovation

The Obama management announced the launch of a new public-private Institute for the production of innovation on August 16. The new partnership, the national additive manufacturing innovation Institute, competitions on chose a first prize of $30 million in federal funds, get through $40 million of the award-winning Consortium matched. The consortium includes industrial companies, universities, schools and non-profit organizations at the Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia "tech belt."

Announced 9 March 2012 President Obama his plan invests $1 billion to catalyze a national network of up to 15 production innovation Institute to the country that would serve as regional hubs for the production. The President called for Congress to this proposal Act and the national network of manufacturing innovation to create. Institute on additive manufacturing invest five federal agencies - the departments of Defense, energy and trade, the National Science Foundation and NASA - together committed $45 million in a pilot project. Additive manufacturing is a process of making dreidimensionaler solid objects from a digital model. See the White House press release.

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Energy Department Invests in Innovative Manufacturing Technologies

The Energy Department announced on June 12 it has awarded more than $54 million for 13 projects across the country to advance transformational technologies and materials. These projects, which are leveraging approximately an additional $17 million in cost share from the private sector, can help U.S. manufacturers increase the energy efficiency of their operations and reduce costs. The projects will be in California, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Utah, and will develop cutting-edge manufacturing tools, techniques, and processes that will be able to save companies money by reducing the energy needed to power their facilities.

From improving manufacturing processes that reduce the energy needed to make components for aircraft and vehicles, to lowering the production costs of carbon fiber for a wide range of clean energy products, these projects represent a major investment in the solutions that will transform energy-intensive manufacturing technologies and materials used by industry in the United States. The results of these projects could produce large improvements in energy productivity, reduce pollution, and boost product output, while creating jobs and helping American companies expand export opportunities globally. Each project will advance technologies early enough in their development cycles to permit the full scope of their technical benefits to be shared across a broad cross-section of the domestic economy. Collectively, these projects are part of the Obama Administration’s effort to support the creation of good jobs by helping U.S. manufacturers reduce costs, improve quality, and accelerate product development. See the DOE press release and the project descriptions.

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Management ensures a 26 million US-dollar competition for advanced manufacturing

The Obama Government announced on May 29 a $26 million multi-agency advanced manufacturing jobs and Innovation Accelerator challenge fueled job creation through public private partnerships to promote innovation. The challenge will support projects aimed at, grow a region industrial cluster by strengthening connections on regional economic development opportunities and advanced manufacturing facilities to help; Capacity one region, to create high-quality sustainable employment; develop a skilled and various advanced production workers; Exports should be increased; Promoting the development of small businesses; and technological innovation to speed up.

This is the third round of the competition jobs Accelerator, which is financed by the Ministry of energy; The U.S. Department of Commerce economic development administration and National Institute of standards and technology; Employment and training administration of U.S. Department of labor; the small business administration; and the National Science Foundation. In this round about 12 projects should by a competitive inter-agency grant will be selected. These coordinated investments help catalyze and using private capital to promote building an entrepreneurial ecosystem and cluster-based development in regions in the United States. The deadline for applications is July 9, 2012. See Web site Manufacturing.gov and the possibility of granting on Grants.gov interagency press release, jobs and Innovation Accelerator challenge.

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