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Sustainable Design & Manufacturing
Roundtable
June 12- Ann Arbor, Michigan
The National Center for Manufacturing
Sciences has completed a six-year, $3.3M
collaborative program under the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),
known as The Sustainable Product
Initiative (SPI).
The tools developed by NCMS and its
partners during this highly successful
program utilizing leading-edge life
cycle thinking methodologies will be
presented during a Sustainable Design
and Manufacturing Roundtable on June
12th, 2012.
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Agenda and Registration
Digital Manufacturing Report-
NCMS Roundtable Will Highlight Advanced
Tools for Sustainable Design and
Manufacturing
Manufacturing is Changing, and Change is
Good
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The
Brookings Institution, a Washington,
D.C.-based think tank, recently released
a report on geographic trends in
American manufacturing. The group’s
follow-up commentary notes that
manufacturing is spreading out well
beyond the “traditional” presumed
locations in the United States, and that
we are seeing a lot of manufacturers
gravitating towards one another
geographically.
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Vision with Action: A Report from the
NCMS DM SIG meeting
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Since its creation just over a year ago
the DM SIG continues to grow. Today, the
DM SIG is comprised of representatives
from 25 organizations including
non-profits, universities, federal
agencies, technology providers, and
manufacturers of all sizes. Together we
are focused on the singular topic of
bringing modeling and simulation
capabilities to our nation’s small and
medium sized manufacturers.
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Making Stuff is Hard! The Saga of
Bringing an iPad Accessory from Concept
to Production
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The barriers encountered from a great
idea to design and finally to full scale
production are massive and have the
potential swallow great ideas whole. So
it’s no surprise that the Touchfire
keyboard has run the manufacturing
gauntlet.
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Resistance is Futile- Digital
Manufacturing
will Change the Way We Make Things
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It’s easy to minimize digital
manufacturing, to think of it as just
one tool: applying supercomputing to
engineering and manufacturing
challenges. But that’s just a tiny piece
of the puzzle. Digital Manufacturing is
not a technique, it is a philosophy.
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