Democratizing Manufacturing: Bridging the Gap Between Invention and Manufacturing
dc.contributor.author | Alliance for Manufacturing Foresight, MForesight: | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-19T17:42:26Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-07-19T17:42:26Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-12 | |
dc.identifier.other | MF-RR-2016-0104 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/145152 | |
dc.description.abstract | Entrepreneurs and small firms in the U.S. face significant challenges as they scale up their innovations to volume production. Despite innovative new technologies such as 3D printers, the transition to cost-competitive, large-scale manufacturing can be difficult for domestic firms. To assist small U.S. companies to more effectively ramp up production, MForesight assembled more than 30 experts in manufacturing at a workshop on “Democratizing Manufacturing.” The goal of the workshop was to evaluate the gaps and barriers in technology and education that prevent the competitive design and production of engineered components by small businesses in the U.S. This effort is both timely and important because a large fraction of high-value products are now manufactured outside of the U.S. Companies in Europe and Asia are winning bids to manufacture products designed in the U.S. for a host of reasons, including a willingness on the part of their own governments to consistently invest in manufacturing (both infrastructure and human capital). To successfully compete in the global manufacturing marketplace, the U.S. needs to adopt new strategies for education, technology development, and industrial policy. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation, Grant No. 1552534 | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.subject | manufacturing, inventing, entrepreneur | en_US |
dc.title | Democratizing Manufacturing: Bridging the Gap Between Invention and Manufacturing | en_US |
dc.type | Technical Report | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Mechanical Engineering | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Engineering | |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/145152/1/Democratizing-Manufacturing-Dec2016.pdf | |
dc.owningcollname | MForesight |
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