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Leveraging Innovation in Advanced Manufacturing

Leveraging Innovation in Advanced Manufacturing. Carolina Innovations Seminar Kirsten Rieth April 5, 2012. Why care about innovation in manufacturing?. U.S. manufacturing is important. Constitutes 11% of GDP Employs 12 million people

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Leveraging Innovation in Advanced Manufacturing

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  1. Leveraging Innovation in Advanced Manufacturing Carolina Innovations Seminar Kirsten Rieth April 5, 2012

  2. Why care about innovation in manufacturing?

  3. U.S. manufacturing is important • Constitutes 11% of GDP • Employs 12 million people • Pays an average of $77,186 annually, including pay and benefits • Employs 60% of engineers and scientists • Performs two-thirds of all R&D in the nation, driving more innovation than any other sector • Accounts for ~30% of all energy consumption in the United States Sources: Department of Energy Advanced Manufacturing Office, National Association of Manufacturers

  4. Industry needs innovation to remain competitive ~Joel Hans, Managing Editor, Manufacturing.net “There’s little doubt that, at the very least, more manufacturers will be looking into open innovation in the next few years. The demand for faster product cycles will only get stronger, as will the need to make a product that’s both high quality and cheap. Even though open innovation is still in its infancy compared to many other business philosophies, it seems to have a great deal of potential, particularly in the way it connects disparate technologies for better solutions.”

  5. The U.S. government is focused on advanced manufacturing • Manufacturing is a source of innovation, and co-location with design provides synergies for innovation • Advanced manufacturing provides high wage jobs • U.S.-based manufacturing is critical to national security

  6. Definition of advanced manufacturing Advanced manufacturing isa family of activities that depend on the use and coordination of information, automation, computation, software, sensing, and networking, and/or make use of cutting-edge materials and emerging capabilities enabled by the physical and biological sciences, for example nanotechnology, chemistry, and biology. This involves both new ways to manufacture existing products, and especially the manufacture of new products emerging from new advanced technologies. Source: Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office, National Institutes of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce

  7. RTI is an international R&D organization • Revenue >$770M • 13% average annual growth over the last 10 years • >2,800 employees in >40 countries • >130 different academic disciplines • Independent and non-profit

  8. University Collaborations

  9. Innovation Advising: Connecting Science and Business

  10. Manufacturing Example: Innovation Explored Lehigh Valley Plastics is a plastics machining company Problem Solution Plastic “stringers” on work centers Air Products, Lehigh Valley, PA, Icefly cryogenic coolant system • Negative IMPACT • 1 shift/week lost to stoppages • Cooling fluid waste/handling • Machine and trip hazard • Positive IMPACT • 33% more capacity ($2.5M) • $20K/year less expense • Safety hazard elimination

  11. Manufacturing Example: Innovation Enabled

  12. The U.S. government has many manufacturing programs

  13. Example program: NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership Source: www.nist.gov/mep

  14. New program: Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office Source: Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office

  15. National Network for Manufacturing Innovation Source: Department of Energy Advanced Manufacturing Office

  16. DoE suggested technologies for Manufacturing Demonstration Facility

  17. Upcoming funding opportunities

  18. North Carolina and advanced manufacturing Industry Entrepreneurs Source: National Association of Manufacturers

  19. Questions? Let’s talk!

  20. Contact: Kirsten Rieth  919-541-6258  krieth@rti.org

  21. Backup Slides

  22. Engineering and Technology Energy Research Capabilities • Process engineering • Catalysis and sorbent development • Biomass and biofuels • Advanced gasification • Solar fuels • Carbon capture technology • Thermoelectric devices • Solid-state lighting • Photovoltaics • Cement and concrete

  23. Engineering and Technology Energy Research Technologies • Syngas Desulfurization System for Clean Coal Technology • Dry Carbonate Process for CO2 Capture from Flue Gas • Reverse-Selective Polymer Membranes for Hydrogen Production

  24. Engineering and Technology Advanced Materials Research • Photonics • Photovoltaics • Flexible and organic electronics • Cement and concrete • Solid-state nucleonics • Metamaterials • Nanofibers • Quantum dots

  25. Engineering and Technology Advanced Materials Research • Thermoelectric Technology • Solid State Heat Pump • Thermoelectric Modules (Nextreme) • Thermoelectric Power Generation • Superlattice Thin-Film Materials • DARPA DTEC Program (Modules and Multi-Module Arrays from Superlattice Devices) • Cemex project • CenSCI Center for Sustainable Construction Infrastructure

  26. Engineering and Technology Electronics • Advanced interconnection and packaging • Wafer and flip chip bumping and assembly • Die-to-chip and die-to-wafer bonding • 3D integration • Novel microfabrication and passive device fabrication • 3D through-silicon vias • MEMS actuators and transducers • Sensors and integrated systems • Thermal Electronic Hotspot Cooling

  27. Engineering and Technology Electronics • Micro Mass Spec • pMUT Arrays and Device • Vertical Interconnect Technology for High Performance Infrared FPA Devices • SXM300 Embedded Computing Module (siXis) • Electrostatic Flexible Film MEMS Actuator • Nanoforce BioMolecular Sensor

  28. Engineering and Technology Health and the Environment • Biomedical engineering • Micro Mass Spec • pMUT arrays and devices • Nanotoxicology • Environmental monitoring • Aerosol science • Environmental Asbestos Exposure

  29. Engineering and Technology Health and the Environment • Nanofiber Filters • Nanofiber Performance • Solid-state lighting • Cement Industry Applications • Biomass cookstove • MicroPEM • National Nanotoxicology Materials Registry

  30. Example: Innovation Deployed Business Planning for Clean Energy Innovation Center RTI developed an industry assessment and business plan for CAER, a regional Energy Innovation Center in Virginia that will support R&D and workforce development in the area of nuclear energy. Project Impact • Requested and secured $24 million in funding • Enabled partnerships with industry and federal agencies, which will accelerate development and commercialization of energy technologies and the growth of a knowledge-based workforce

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