Ira Moskowitz: Advanced manufacturing is moving very quickly, and our adversaries
around the world are advancing the sophistication and the technology in their
manufacturing and their supply chains.
We as a country need to keep up with that.
Berardino Baratta: If you don't invest in innovation, you'd lag.
We need to keep investing across the supply chain, across the spectrum
if we're gonna remain a leader in manufacturing, because if we can't
produce things, we have a problem.
Jela Trask: Private entities don't normally come together
to go solve something bigger.
That is a critical area for our national security and our economic prosperity.
You need an institute to be that catalyst that brings it all together.
Ira Moskowitz: The manufacturing USA network consists of 17 institutes
today and two more will be added over the next year, and it's a
network that collaborates on various ways to advance our manufacturing.
Nigal Francis: Our core purpose is to do good across the nation,
in the manufacturing sector, in technology and in talent.
And that's something you can be
Berardino Baratta: proud of.
When you bring people together, they share knowledge, they share
understanding, they share ideas.
They share successes.
They share failures.
That sharing of that ecosystem is so critical,
John Wilczynski: and the whole idea is work on things that we were willing
to work on together so that it helps everybody do better more quickly.
Ira Moskowitz: What you see in this background behind me is the
robotics manufacturing public.
We're able to.
Leverage the institute and help these small and medium manufacturers that
make up 80% or 90% of US manufacturing to modernize the operations, implement
robotics and automation in ways they just couldn't have before.
John Wilczynski: We just did a really interesting series of workshops and
ultimately produced a roadmap and investment strategy for where does
additive manufacturing support the castings and forgings industry.
But it was really about is it possible to augment these conventional
industries with a. New technology.
Jela Trask: There's never been a better time to be in manufacturing,
robotics, automation, cybersecurity materials, decarbonization.
There's so many exciting technologies that we're focused on.
No matter how much
Ira Moskowitz: technology we develop, we don't solve the workforce problem.
We are in serious trouble.
Berardino Baratta: We've trained over 250,000 people.
I'm looking forward to the next million that we're gonna work with to get them
the skills so that they're ready for today, but more importantly, ready for.
For
Nigal Francis: tomorrow.
You need the talent to make things.
You also need the technology to make things.
And if you get the two things aligned at the same point in time so that
you've got the right technology and the right people to use that technology,
you've got something that's unbeatable.
Jela Trask: With the input that we received from our members, we were able
to identify these roles that are gonna be needed, and then we bring in our academic
partners to say, how do we collaborate in creating the career pathways?
That are gonna help us build those jobs of the future.
Haresh Malkani: This region was impacted very severely because
of the downturn in the economy.
But places like the Digital Foundry provide people with a visibility that
says that manufacturing is still alive.
And that using the right technology for manufacturing can bring those jobs.
Back
Berardino Baratta: 10 years ago, nobody knew about a member-based ecosystem.
Nobody understood the project ideas.
But the thing I really like is that we as institutes have evolved
along with Industry 4.0 and advanced manufacturing adoption.
Nigal Francis: I. We stabilized ourselves, we then put ourselves in a growth mode.
We're now wishing to replicate the lessons learned from that
in satellites across the nation.
Berardino Baratta: And I hope in the next 10 years we'll keep
evolving as the needs change.
And this will look very different 10 years from now.
But I think the impact will be orders of magnitude larger.
Jela Trask: We're stood up, we're a mature entity.
Let's just keep doing the work and do it bigger and better.