Building your Talent: Identifying Training and Skill Development Needs Assessing skills of employees is critical in identifying training and other skill development needs. At EDSI, we have a process for assessing employee skills leverages our proprietary Skilldex system, developed from over 30 years of experience in workforce development and customized training. During this webinar, we […]
Read More »Technology Exchange on Coordination of US Standards Development for Additive Mfg October 7-8, 2015 Penn State University State College , PA The Technology Exchange on Coordination of U.S. Standards for Additive Manufacturing, which is co-hosted by America Makes and the Center for Innovative Materials Processing through Direct Digital Deposition (CIMP-3D) at Penn State, will take […]
Read More »NCMS’ Senior Vice President Rebecca Taylor will be the featured speaker and moderator during FABTECH 2015’s “State of Industry : Advanced Manufacturing” panel discussion. FABTECH 2015 is North America’s largest collaboration of equipment, technology and knowledge in the metal forming, fabricating, welding and finishing industry. Taking place November 9-12 at Chicago’s McCormick Place, the event provides […]
Read More »The industry and Department of Defense (DoD) are both migrating away from “stovepiped” logistics information systems to adequately perform their supply and maintenance functions and are moving toward integrated global information architectures where multiple users can create and exploit authoritative information for their logistics function. The Marine Corps has done this through the implementation of […]
Read More »A recent Rapid Access to Readiness-Essential (RARE) Parts Team collaboration resulted in a successful outcome for TRF Kings Bay. In early July, Craig Hoskins, Materials Engineer, Trident Refit Facility, Kings Bay contacted Connie Philips, NCMS Sr. Program Manager and lead of the RARE Parts Team. Craig communicated their difficulty obtaining a nickel-aluminum bronze cast part […]
Read More »The Air Force held its third Small Business Industry Days (SBID) event in Macon, GA hosted by Air Force Sustainment Center last week (July 14-15, 2015). The event was attended by over 240 small business POCs, Major Defense Contractors, Air Force technical personnel, and OEMs. The purpose of the event is to transform how the […]
Read More »The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) is partnering with a Federal Government Agency (FGA) who is seeking industry partners with solutions to mitigate threats to vehicles that could result from a magnetically attached device (MAD) with emphasis on the detachment of the MAD from the vehicle. Background: Magnetically attached devices present a variety of […]
Read More »This initiative will focus on key vendors and their components that are used across multiple military systems (such as bearings, fluid pumps, valves, gears, etc.). Although these components may have separate part numbers, and therefore managed by different organizations, they are often designed and manufactured by the same companies. While this synergy is obvious to […]
Read More »NCMS is excited to announce a joint event with the United States Air Force for the annual NCMS Technology Showcase…focusing on the digital thread on November 2-4, 2015 at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. We will focus on all NCMS initiatives on the 2nd and 3rd , including CTMA, Digital Manufacturing, the Grid […]
Read More »Conducting a Proof of Principle, the U.S. Marine Corps installed four armories with Asset Information Management Solutions (AIMS) Automated Armory™. Instantly time savings were realized as processes that took over 34 hours were reduced to as little as 1 hour. Tracking with a simple single click of a mouse, no longer flipping through paper on a […]
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