WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.720 --> 00:00:04.770 Ira Moskowitz: Advanced manufacturing is moving very quickly, and our adversaries 00:00:04.770 --> 00:00:09.540 around the world are advancing the sophistication and the technology in their 00:00:09.540 --> 00:00:11.310 manufacturing and their supply chains. 00:00:11.730 --> 00:00:13.650 We as a country need to keep up with that. 00:00:14.460 --> 00:00:16.680 Berardino Baratta: If you don't invest in innovation, you'd lag. 00:00:17.040 --> 00:00:20.880 We need to keep investing across the supply chain, across the spectrum 00:00:21.090 --> 00:00:23.970 if we're gonna remain a leader in manufacturing, because if we can't 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:25.710 produce things, we have a problem. 00:00:26.490 --> 00:00:29.070 Jela Trask: Private entities don't normally come together 00:00:29.070 --> 00:00:31.020 to go solve something bigger. 00:00:31.080 --> 00:00:36.210 That is a critical area for our national security and our economic prosperity. 00:00:36.269 --> 00:00:40.950 You need an institute to be that catalyst that brings it all together. 00:00:41.400 --> 00:00:44.580 Ira Moskowitz: The manufacturing USA network consists of 17 institutes 00:00:44.580 --> 00:00:48.090 today and two more will be added over the next year, and it's a 00:00:48.090 --> 00:00:51.510 network that collaborates on various ways to advance our manufacturing. 00:00:51.650 --> 00:00:55.370 Nigal Francis: Our core purpose is to do good across the nation, 00:00:55.370 --> 00:00:58.730 in the manufacturing sector, in technology and in talent. 00:00:59.000 --> 00:00:59.839 And that's something you can be 00:00:59.839 --> 00:01:00.320 Berardino Baratta: proud of. 00:01:00.890 --> 00:01:03.440 When you bring people together, they share knowledge, they share 00:01:03.440 --> 00:01:04.640 understanding, they share ideas. 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:05.570 They share successes. 00:01:05.570 --> 00:01:06.320 They share failures. 00:01:06.380 --> 00:01:09.110 That sharing of that ecosystem is so critical, 00:01:09.500 --> 00:01:12.140 John Wilczynski: and the whole idea is work on things that we were willing 00:01:12.140 --> 00:01:16.280 to work on together so that it helps everybody do better more quickly. 00:01:16.700 --> 00:01:19.460 Ira Moskowitz: What you see in this background behind me is the 00:01:19.460 --> 00:01:20.900 robotics manufacturing public. 00:01:20.900 --> 00:01:21.650 We're able to. 00:01:21.650 --> 00:01:25.520 Leverage the institute and help these small and medium manufacturers that 00:01:25.520 --> 00:01:30.890 make up 80% or 90% of US manufacturing to modernize the operations, implement 00:01:30.890 --> 00:01:33.500 robotics and automation in ways they just couldn't have before. 00:01:33.770 --> 00:01:37.160 John Wilczynski: We just did a really interesting series of workshops and 00:01:37.160 --> 00:01:41.450 ultimately produced a roadmap and investment strategy for where does 00:01:41.450 --> 00:01:45.110 additive manufacturing support the castings and forgings industry. 00:01:45.290 --> 00:01:50.360 But it was really about is it possible to augment these conventional 00:01:50.360 --> 00:01:52.550 industries with a. New technology. 00:01:53.060 --> 00:01:57.380 Jela Trask: There's never been a better time to be in manufacturing, 00:01:57.650 --> 00:02:04.220 robotics, automation, cybersecurity materials, decarbonization. 00:02:04.220 --> 00:02:07.970 There's so many exciting technologies that we're focused on. 00:02:08.330 --> 00:02:09.050 No matter how much 00:02:09.050 --> 00:02:12.020 Ira Moskowitz: technology we develop, we don't solve the workforce problem. 00:02:12.470 --> 00:02:13.580 We are in serious trouble. 00:02:13.670 --> 00:02:15.620 Berardino Baratta: We've trained over 250,000 people. 00:02:16.070 --> 00:02:18.890 I'm looking forward to the next million that we're gonna work with to get them 00:02:18.890 --> 00:02:21.650 the skills so that they're ready for today, but more importantly, ready for. 00:02:21.650 --> 00:02:21.770 For 00:02:21.770 --> 00:02:22.220 Nigal Francis: tomorrow. 00:02:22.640 --> 00:02:24.500 You need the talent to make things. 00:02:24.740 --> 00:02:26.840 You also need the technology to make things. 00:02:27.140 --> 00:02:29.930 And if you get the two things aligned at the same point in time so that 00:02:29.930 --> 00:02:34.070 you've got the right technology and the right people to use that technology, 00:02:34.160 --> 00:02:35.810 you've got something that's unbeatable. 00:02:36.710 --> 00:02:41.480 Jela Trask: With the input that we received from our members, we were able 00:02:41.480 --> 00:02:47.390 to identify these roles that are gonna be needed, and then we bring in our academic 00:02:47.390 --> 00:02:51.560 partners to say, how do we collaborate in creating the career pathways? 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:54.410 That are gonna help us build those jobs of the future. 00:02:54.890 --> 00:02:58.880 Haresh Malkani: This region was impacted very severely because 00:02:58.880 --> 00:03:00.320 of the downturn in the economy. 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:06.590 But places like the Digital Foundry provide people with a visibility that 00:03:06.590 --> 00:03:08.690 says that manufacturing is still alive. 00:03:08.765 --> 00:03:12.934 And that using the right technology for manufacturing can bring those jobs. 00:03:12.934 --> 00:03:13.174 Back 00:03:13.565 --> 00:03:15.904 Berardino Baratta: 10 years ago, nobody knew about a member-based ecosystem. 00:03:15.904 --> 00:03:17.464 Nobody understood the project ideas. 00:03:17.554 --> 00:03:20.584 But the thing I really like is that we as institutes have evolved 00:03:20.644 --> 00:03:23.704 along with Industry 4.0 and advanced manufacturing adoption. 00:03:24.274 --> 00:03:27.005 Nigal Francis: I. We stabilized ourselves, we then put ourselves in a growth mode. 00:03:27.244 --> 00:03:30.545 We're now wishing to replicate the lessons learned from that 00:03:30.545 --> 00:03:31.984 in satellites across the nation. 00:03:32.045 --> 00:03:33.454 Berardino Baratta: And I hope in the next 10 years we'll keep 00:03:33.454 --> 00:03:34.924 evolving as the needs change. 00:03:34.924 --> 00:03:37.174 And this will look very different 10 years from now. 00:03:37.174 --> 00:03:39.904 But I think the impact will be orders of magnitude larger. 00:03:40.355 --> 00:03:43.174 Jela Trask: We're stood up, we're a mature entity. 00:03:43.325 --> 00:03:47.015 Let's just keep doing the work and do it bigger and better.