Manufacturing USA

AIM Photonics is an industry driven public-private partnership that focuses the nation’s premiere capabilities and expertise to capture critical global manufacturing leadership in a technology that is both essential to national security and positioned to provide a compelling return-on-investment to the U.S. economy. The Institute’s goal is to emulate the dramatic successes experienced by the electronics industry over the past 40 years and transition key lessons, processes, and approaches to the photonic integrated circuit (PIC) industry.
AIM Photonics supports small and mid-sized enterprises, providing practical access and technology on-ramps for U.S. industry, government, and academic communities. They are creating a national PIC manufacturing infrastructure, widely accessible and inherently flexible to meet the challenges of the marketplace with practical, innovative solutions.

• Founded 2015
• Website: aimphotonics.com
• Headquarters: Rochester, NY

To foster and grow the national manufacturing ecosystem, the Advanced Robotics Manufacturing (ARM) Institute has formed a national, public-private partnership to develop, demonstrate, and facilitate early adoption of novel robotic solutions. Based in Pittsburgh, ARM is led by a newly established national nonprofit called American Robotics, which was founded by Carnegie Mellon University and includes a national network of 231 stakeholders from industry, academia, local governments and nonprofits.
ARM’s 10-year goals include increasing worker productivity by 30 percent, creating 510,000 new manufacturing jobs in the U.S., ensuring that 30 percent of SMEs adopt robotics technology, and providing the ecosystem where major industrial robotics manufacturers will emerge. ARM focuses on critical growth sectors that are ripe for rapid adoption of robotics in manufacturing, including aerospace, automotive, electronics, and textiles.

• Founded 2016
• Website: arminstitute.org
• Headquarters: Pittsburgh, PA (Carnegie Mellon University)

This institute, led by the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI), Inc., will develop next-generation manufacturing techniques for repairing and replacing cells and tissues, which may one day lead to the ability to manufacture new skin for soldiers scarred from combat or develop organ-preserving technologies to benefit Americans waiting for an organ transplant.

• Founded 2017
• Headquarters: Manchester, NH
• Website: armiusa.org

Advanced composites are currently used for expensive applications like satellites and luxury cars. Researchers at IACMI will work to develop lower-cost, higher-speed, and more efficient manufacturing and recycling processes for them. Bringing these materials down the cost curve can enable their use for a broader range of products including lightweight vehicles with record-breaking fuel economy; lighter and longer wind turbine blades; high pressure tanks for natural gas-fueled cars; and lighter, more efficient industrial equipment. The Institute will focus on lowering the overall manufacturing costs of advanced composites by 50 percent, reducing the energy used to make composites by 75 percent and increasing the recyclability of composites to over 95 percent within the next decade.

• Founded 2014
• Website: iacmi.org
• Headquarters: Knoxville, TN

MxD (The Digital Manufacturing Institute), a Manufacturing USA® institute, addresses the global competitiveness challenge U.S. manufacturers face from overseas competition by accelerating the development and adoption of digital technology across manufacturing operations to positively impact the way we work.
Digital manufacturing and related design technologies connect different parts of the manufacturing life-cycle through data. That information enables organizations to make smarter, more efficient decisions and improve production times. Manufacturing innovations are connected through a digital thread – from retrofitting legacy machines with advanced cybersecurity to the use of digital models and augmented reality for enhanced productivity. MxD provides factories with the digital tools and expertise needed to build things more efficiently, more quickly, and at less cost so that U.S. manufacturers can compete for business and jobs.

• Founded 2014
• Headquarters: Chicago, IL
• Website: https://mxdusa.org/

As global competition and resource scarcity increases, U.S. manufacturers will look for new solutions to help them reduce the cost of raw materials, energy, water and more by becoming more efficient and sustainable. The mission of the REMADE Institute is to not only pioneer these solutions to make U.S. manufacturing better by reducing net-energy costs and reducing costly manufacturing waste materials and emissions, but to also grow new clean-tech and clean energy businesses and jobs.

• Founded 2017
• Website: remadeinstitute.org
• Headquarters: Rochester, NY

The mission of PowerAmerica is to develop advanced manufacturing processes that will enable large-scale production of wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductors, which allow electronic components to be smaller, faster and more efficient than semiconductors made from silicon. WBG semiconductor technology has the potential to reshape the American energy economy by increasing efficiency in everything that uses a semiconductor, from industrial motors and household appliances to military satellites.

• Founded 2014
• Website: poweramericainstitute.org
• Headquarters: Raleigh, NC