Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio applaud President Barack Obama as he gives his State of the Union address Tuesday evening. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- The National Additive Manufacturing Innovative Institute in Youngstown, mentioned by President Barack Obama is his State of the Union address, is called the hub of the nation's "catch-up" efforts to get back into the manufacturing game.
It's the first of 15 "innovative institutes" to be established by Obama's $1-billion National Network for Manufacturing Innovation strategy he introduced last March.
The Institute is focusing on the development of additive manufacturing technology and processes. The goal is to take 3-D printing and other methods for translating digital
images into parts that you can hold in your hand from laboratories and specialty
shops into factories.
Most large manufacturers use 3-D printers to create prototypes for parts so they can test them in large machines. But when it comes time to go into production, those companies typically used cheaper methods such as metal stamping for production.
With this technology companies could design parts that cannot be made using traditional manufacturing methods.
The federal defense and energy departments has put $30 million toward the Institute,with NASA, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and National Science Foundation expected to kick in the remaining $15 million over the next four years.
A consortium of other manufacturing firms, universities, community colleges and nonprofit organizations has promised an additional $40 million.
Last August 16, the Institute was named one of the top 10 most innovative economic development initiatives in the country by The Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program and The Rockefeller Foundation.
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