Advanced Manufacturing Now

Charlie Miller, director of sales for the Eastern region of the US for the robot and applications group at ABB, examines emerging trends in robotic welding, how the Industrial Internet of Things is driving changes in the sector, and the biggest challenges users need to address--including the shortage of skilled workers.

Detlef Zühlke, Scientific Director for Innovative Factory Systems at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and Executive Chairman of SmartFactory-KL in Germany, discusses what it was like to be a founding father of Industrie 4.0, obstacles to smart manufacturing and ways the transition can be made smoother.

Manufacturing Engineering Editor-in-Chief James D. Sawyer talks to Dr. Bruce Cameron, MIT faculty director, about the online professional certificate program. Online Education at MIT: Models and Methods to Manage Complex Systems MIT Professional Education's new four-course online professional certificate program, Architecture and Systems Engineering: Models and Methods to Manage Complex Systems is intended to provide a state-of-the-practice view on model-based systems engineering for technical professionals and engineers. This first-of-its-kind professional certificate was developed by leading MIT faculty and incorporates case studies, practitioner guest lectures and examples from a wide variety of industries and companies.

Guest: Met-L-Flow President Carl Dekker. Interviewed by Smart Manufacturing magazine Editor In Chief Brett Brune. How can we get around better? SME's 2017 Digital Manufacturing Challenge invites college and high school students around the world who are in STEM fields to answer the question—by creating forward-thinking, mobility innovation solutions. Contest submissions are due before March 13.

Smart Manufacturing magazine Editor in Chief Brett Brune discusses The Digital Transformation full-day seminar with John Deere's Craig Sutton. Sutton is the chair of the Nov. 9 event. The Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII) is hosting it in Chicago.

Guest: Mike Molnar, Director - Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office, US Dept of Commerce. Interviewed by Smart Manufacturing magazine Editor in Chief Brett Brune. SME's Advanced Manufacturing Now talks with the US Dept of Commerce's Mike Molnar about Manufacturing USA, the new public named for the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation. Formally established in 2014, Manufacturing USA brings together industry, academia and federal partners within a growing network of advanced manufacturing institutes to increase US manufacturing competitiveness and promote a robust and sustainable national manufacturing R&D infrastructure. Hear the elevator pitch, and more.

Guest: David Morfas, Product Expert at the Plex Systems. Interviewed by Manufacturing Engineering Magazine Editor in Chief Jim Sawyer. SME's Advanced Manufacturing Now talks to David Morfas, who discuss how Smart Manufacturing is the convergence of several technology trends resulting in improved manufacturing productivity. It empowers manufacturers to be more competitive. This development promises to bring about a true revolution, with cloud technology enabling greater connectivity to people, machines and processes on the production floor and accessibility to actionable data like never before.

Guest: David Wick, Manager, Product Management at ZEISS Industrial Metrology. Interviewed by Manufacturing Engineering magazine Editor in Chief Jim Sawyer. SME's Advanced Manufacturing Now talks to David Wick, who discusses what ZEISS Industrial Metrology is planning for IMTS and new trends impacting the metrology industry today. We also discuss new products ZEISS Industrial Metrology plans to release in the upcoming months.

Guest: Dror Danai, Chief Business Officer at XJet Limited. Interviewed by Smart Manufacturing magazine Editor In Chief, Brett Brune. At the RAPID 2016 conference on additive manufacturing, Danai talks to Advanced Manufacturing Now about XJet's positioning—immediately after he showed the public XJet's liquid metal 3D printer and explained its new NanoParticle Jetting (NPJ) technology.

Guest: James Gorham, Executive Vice President at Fujitsu Glovia. Interviewed by Manufacturing Engineering magazine Editor Bill Koenig. SME's Advanced Manufacturing Now talks to James Gorham, who discusses what Fujitsu Glovia is planning for IMTS, how the industry has been changing and some of the products Fujitsu Glovia has in the pipeline.

Guest: Rodger Boswell, Vice President of Sales at Hydromat Inc. Interviewed by Manufacturing Engineering magazine Editor Bill Koenig. SME's Advanced Manufacturing Now talks to Rodger Boswell, who discusses what the company is planning for IMTS, how the industry has been changing and some of the products Hydromat has in the pipeline.

Guest: Howard Heppelmann, Divisional Vice President and General Manager, IoT Manufacturing Solutions, at PTC. Interviewed by Patrick Waurzyniak, Senior Editor, Advanced Manufacturing Media Following PTC's LiveWorx IoT business event in Boston inJune, Heppelmann talks to Advanced Manufacturing Now about PTC's role in the developing the Fourth Industrial Revolution. "I think this is a topic that comes along sort of once in a generation," he said, "and hopefully manufacturers recognize the opportunity that the Industrial Internet of Things or Internet of Things provides for them, as well as the threats, if they don't act."

Guest: Ed Youdell, President and CEO, Fabricators and Manufacturers Association, International. Interviewed by Sarah A. Webster, Editor in Chief, Advanced Manufacturing Media. Youdell talks to Advanced Manufacturing Now about what's new in the 5th year of Manufacturing Day, which will be held Oct. 7. The program has been a runaway success with more than 2,500 events in 2015, reaching more than 400,000 participants. AMN talks to Youdell about how to get involved. More information is available at www.mfgday.com.

Guest: Al Siblani, CEO and Founder, EnvisionTEC. Interviewed by Sarah A. Webster, Editor in Chief, Advanced Manufacturing Media. EnvisionTEC, a leading global manufacturer of professional grade 3D printing solutions headquartered in Dearborn, MI, and Gladbeck, Germany, has developed an all-new additive manufacturing technology to build composites. The SLCOM will be revealed for the first time at RAPID 2016 in Orlando, Florida.

Guest: John Fleming Executive Vice President Global Manufacturing & Labor Affairs (Retired), Ford Motor Co., interviewed by Executive Editor James D. Sawyer John Fleming began his career as an apprentice and concluded it as Ford's VP of Global Manufacturing, and talks about his involvement with Industry 4.0. Many in his position would reminisce about the past, Fleming, though is using his vast manufacturing knowledge to help others look ahead in his position as a director and advisor to SME's Smart Manufacturing Seminar Series.

Guest: Antoine Bisson, co-founder and chief technical officer of Poka Inc. Interviewed by Smart Manufacturing magazine Editor Brett Brune. SME's Advanced Manufacturing Now talks to Antoine Bisson about the "social industrial platform" he and a friend created to make training in manufacturing as easy as watching YouTube. It's all about avoiding mistakes and downtime. (We threw in a little Japanese lesson, too.)

Guest: Brian Glowiak, SME Education Foundation. Interviewed by Editor in Chief Sarah A. Webster SME's Advanced Manufacturing Now talks to Brian Glowiak, Director of the SME Education Foundation, about the need for a skilled workforce in manufacturing, and how SME and its longstanding foundation is actively working to fill the pipeline of skilled manufacturing workers through its Partnership Response in Manufacturing Education (PRIME) program and other outreach efforts.

Guest: Mohamed Abuali, CEO Forcam, Inc. Interviewed by Senior Editor Patrick Waurzyniak. SME's Advanced Manufacturing Now talks to Mohamed Abuali about Forcam's technology for promoting a digital manufacturing future, and why small and medium manufacturers need to learn more about the available technology and how it can improve their competitiveness.

Guest: Neil Desrosiers, Applications Engineer and Developer, Mazak. Interviewed by Senior Editor James Lorincz. SME's Advanced Manufacturing Now talks to Neil Derosiers of Mazak about the coming digital manufacturing revolution in advance of the MC2 conference to be held April 19-21 in Dallas, Texas. Where is this Internet of Things headed and is anybody really exempt from the future of manufacturing?

Guest: Al Albrecht, Author of "The American Machine Tool Industry." Interviewed by Editor in Chief Sarah A. Webster. SME's Advanced Manufacturing Now talks to Al Abrecht, the author of the book, "The American Machine Tool Industry – It's History, Growth, Restructuring & Recovery." The 91-year-old, who retired from a long career in the machine tool industry, gives his observations about the industry and where it's headed now. Albrecht last served as the Vice President of Textron's Machine Tool Division in Cheshire, CT, and has an engineering degree from The Ohio State University.

Guest: Jeannine Kunz, ToolingU-SME. Interviewed by Editor in Chief Sarah A. Webster SME's Advanced Manufacturing Now talks to Jeannine Kunz, the director of Tooling U-SME, about how workforce development is changing in an area where manufacturers struggle to find workers. Learn how ToolingU-SME helps small, medium and large manufacturers prepare a plan to keep their current workers on top of the latest technologies, develop ongoing training plans and ensure they can continue to grow with the workforce they need.

Guest: Jim Reid, General Manager, Robovent. Interviewed by Editor in Chief Sarah A. Webster SME's Advanced Manufacturing Now talks to Jim Reid, General Manager and Co-Owner of RoboVent, about the company's new Clean Air Educational Initiative. Clean air in manufacturing facilities is important to keeping employees happy and productive, and Reid talks about how RoboVent has helped to simplify the process of achieving truly clean air that meets regulations and keeps employees healthy.

Guest: Debbie Holton, SME Events & Industry Strategy. Interviewed by Editor in Chief Sarah A. Webster SME's Advanced Manufacturing Now talks to Debbie Holton, Director of Industry Strategy & Events at SME, about how manufacturing technology is changing and what that might mean for the future. We also discuss SME's RAPID event, how the 3D printing industry is changing rapidly and the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation. Finally, there's nothing like a face-to-face event to learn about what's new, so Holton discusses SME's upcoming slate of events in North America.