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NCMS Launches Enhanced Member Portal
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We
recently launched an upgraded online
resource to provide streamlined access
to all your NCMS membership benefits.
Features include an interactive forum,
member directory, important
collaboration documents and online
networking groups. Visit
http://members.ncms.org and
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Growth of Intelligent Machines-
Manufacturing Leads the Way
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The
Smart Machines Coalition, driven by
opportunity for greater efficiency,
competitiveness, and customer value,
already envisions a future where today’s
level of automation seems practically
manual by comparison. The Coalition has
the audacious goal of driving true
decision-making industrial technology.
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The Handyman Can- Manufacturing Skills
Shortage?
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Writing for the New York Times, Louis
Uchitelle laments the death of skilled
craftsmanship in the United States,
drawing a parallel between it and the
nation’s long-suffering manufacturing
sector. But manufacturing is strong,
even if the skills necessary for it to
thrive have changed.
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Robotics Working Group Survey
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Robotics and autonomous vehicle
technology has the near-term potential
to transform the factory floor, our
homes, highways and crucial
transportation, delivery, and logistic (TDL)
networks. This survey will identify and
prioritize issues and for a Robotics
Strategic Interest Group. Please
respond by August 31, 2012.
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Strayed in America- Made in America is
Good, Making a Great Product in America
is Even Better
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Google
raised some happy eyebrows earlier this
summer when the company decided to
manufacture its Nexus Q streaming media
device in the United States. The firm
was closemouthed about most other
aspects of the manufacturing decision,
not even revealing where the spheroid
competitor to Apple TV and Roku was to
be built.
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