How do you predict the future without a crystal ball? With data, insight, and experience. At least, that’s how a panel of experts from the Manufacturing USA network recently tackled the topic of “factories of the future” at the renowned SXSW conference in Austin, Texas.

ARM Institute’s Suzy Teele moderated the session titled “ Smart, Sustainable...

Manufacturing USA has released the Strategic Plan for the Manufacturing USA Program . The plan describes the program’s vision, mission, goals, and objectives. It also outlines the program’s technology investment strategy, how investments made by federal agencies will be coordinated, and how the program will be assessed.

The plan describes...

Manufacturing USA today released its 2016 Annual Report to Congress. The report describes the program’s work in helping to move discoveries in the nation’s universities and research laboratories to the shop floor here in America. It highlights the nine Manufacturing USA institutes that were active in fiscal year 2016, and documents the network...