Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Thursday, July 9, 2026
FACT SHEET: A Blueprint to Train Two Million Workers for High-Demand Industries through a Community College to Career Fund
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/barack-obama2_1211622c.jpg" alt="" width="70" height="58" />This Fact Sheet issued by the White House provides an overview of an initiative announced by President Obama on Feb. 13 to train workers for good-paying jobs in high-growth and high-demand industries. And that, of course, includes advanced manufacturing. Full article
Brain Drain
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/DMR_AviationMechanic.jpg" alt="" width="112" height="65" />Across the country, we have stigmatized skilled blue collar work, reduced support for vocational programs, and begun shepherding only “problem” kids into what little is left. Full article
A Flap Over Manufacturing
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Factory_icon.jpg" alt="" width="64" height="59" />This week an interesting dust-up aired in the <em>Huffington Post</em>. Scott Paul, executive director, Alliance for Manufacturing, takes umbrage with a recent op-ed in the <em>NY Times</em> titled “Do Manufacturers Need Special Treatment,” written by Christina D. Romer, former chairwoman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors. Full article
HPC, the Cloud, and Help for the Missing Middle
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/AutoCAD_smartphone_.jpg" alt="" width="90" height="72" />Digital manufacturing in the cloud is a key element in the empowering of the “missing middle.” Cloud services can bring advanced technologies – such as modeling and simulation – to small and medium sized manufacturers (SMMs) that previously were unable to take advantage of these technologies because of ... Full article
Replacing an Elderly Woman’s Jaw Using 3D Printing
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Jaw_replacement_small.jpg" alt="" width="76" height="57" />Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, has come to the assistance of a woman suffering from progressive osteomyelitis, a disease that was causing her jawbone to disintegrate. Full article
Hybrid Rocket Engines Use Additive Manufacturing to Combine the Advantages of Solid and Liquid Propellants
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/rocket_motor_on_stand.jpg" alt="" width="91" height="59" />Hybrid rocket engines, which combine a solid fuel with a liquid oxidizer, offer the best of both worlds including immediate launch capability and the ability to be throttled and restarted. More importantly for commercial space transport use, they offer significantly greater safety than either solid or liquid rocket ... Full article
Change is in the Air
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/465px-Factory_USA.svg.jpg" alt="" width="81" height="67" />You might have heard that the American economy is in trouble. And as the years drag on, a harsh reality is coming to light: this is no normal recession. The various collapses of recent memory – housing, banking, credit, dot-com – are symptoms of a larger problem... Full article
East Bound And Down, Loaded Up And Truckin’
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/smart_truck7.jpg" alt="" width="75" height="65" />Back in 1977 when the price of gas was around $0.60, no one gave a second thought to driving a Black Pontiac Trans AM or an 18-wheeler full of Coors across the Southeast from Texas to Georgia. Full article
HPC Helps Put Mercury Marine in Front of its Competitors
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Mercruiser_small.jpg" alt="" width="87" height="64" />How Mercury Marine, the last remaining U.S. manufacturer of outboard motors, is using digital manufacturing, modeling and simulation, to stay ahead of its rivals in a highly competitive global marketplace. Full article
Video: Rep. Robert Dold (R-IL) on Manufacturing
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Dold_mug_shot.jpg" alt="" width="62" height="60" />Here's the video of a speech Congressman Robert Dold made from the House Floor on Feb. 2 concerning the importance of developing an education system that will prepare students for the high-demand manufacturing jobs of the 21st Century. Full article
Techland
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Wright_Bros._-First_flight2.jpg" alt="" width="77" height="49" />America's "can do" spirit and a look at three technology areas where the U.S. is poised to win globally in the coming years. Full article
Assemblageddon
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/DMR_AdvancedMfg_cropped.jpg" alt="" width="99" height="59" />A few weeks ago I wrote about the need for a perception shift in our culture: that we need to stop equating the concept of “manufacturing” with the lowbrow reality of “assembly.” Full article
Tough Challenges for Auto Battery Makers
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/mr.-volta.jpg" alt="" width="50" height="59" />Will they really be able to power the clean cars of the future? Full article
Detroit is More than Just Cars
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/man_at_computer.jpg" alt="" width="63" height="49" />Rick Darter, President and CEO of Rave Computer, Sterling Heights, Mich., discusses how advanced digital manufacturing capabilities can be brought to manufacturers in Michigan. He cites the highly successful efforts in Central Florida to develop a solid base of modeling, simulation, and training expertise. Full article
Abundance for All – Is it within our Reach?
The book, Abundance, to be released February 21st, describes how the progress we’ve made in a multitude of advanced technologies will produce more abundant gains in the next two decades that we have experienced in the previous two centuries. Written by Dr. Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler, this book highlights people in the forefront of ... Full article
Case Study: Direct Digital Manufacturing Reduces Instrument Part Cost 5% and Lead Time 93%
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/M3500.jpg" alt="" width="108" height="89" />“The lead time for 500 units has been shortened to three days. In the aircraft world, that’s quick for certified production parts,” says Justin Kelly, Kelly Manufacturing Company. Full article
The State of Manufacturing: President Obama Addresses the Union
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/obama,_state_of_union_small.jpg" alt="" width="67" height="62" />Yesterday evening, President Obama gave his State of the Union Address. Not surprisingly, manufacturing got a lot of real estate in the speech. Full article
The Robots are Coming
<img src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/boxie_robot_hlzce.jpg" alt="" width="71" height="56" />According to this week’s edition of New Scientist, the next robot revolution is underway and software is the key. Full article
3D Printing to Change Manufacturing
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/3D_Motorcycle" alt="" width="61" height="81" />Here's a short but succinct look at 3D printing and its potential ramifications for manufacturing in a video posted by Bloomberg Business Week. The 3D printed motorcycle is the star of the show.<br /> Full article
Case Study: Avmor Cleans House, Replaces Aging, Legacy ERP System
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/quick_stuff.jpg" alt="" width="74" height="46" />After examining 15 software packages in its hunt for a fully integrated advanced manufacturing and distribution enterprise software solution, the company, a manufacturer of quality cleaning products, settled on Sage ERP X3. Full article