Manufacturing Innovation Institutes Explained in 60 Seconds
After shedding jobs for a decade, American manufacturers have added about 500,000 positions over the past three years. Production is growing at its fastest pace in over a decade. And as part of his plan to do everything he can to create jobs, strengthen the middle class, and fuel economic growth, President Obama is committed to continuing this progress, which is why he’s laid out a comprehensive agenda to make America a magnet for manufacturing.
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3-D Printing on Display at NAMII
On the outside the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute looks like any other building in Youngstown, Ohio—an unremarkeable rectangle of grey brick; a relic of another age. On the inside, however, it is home to some of the most state-of-the-art additive manufacturing equipment available today, proudly displaying the intricate, impossibly complex structures the machines are capable of producing.
read moreCongressman Tim Ryan: NAMII and the Rise of Youngstown, Ohio
Despite all of the questions surrounding the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute—despite all of the lingering uncertainties about the future of NNMI and the anxious anticipation with which the industry is watching its first round projects get underway—no one at the NAMII headquarters in Youngstown, Ohio, seems the least bit worried. That’s because NAMII has a powerful ally fighting in its corner: Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH).
read moreCongressman Tim Ryan: From Steel Belt to Rust Belt to Tech Belt
Standing before an sPro selective laser sintering system from 3D Systems in the NAMII headquarters, Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) explains how Youngstown transformed itself a rust belt relic to the center of the 3-D printing revolution. People are beginning to see us as on the cutting edge of a lot of different things. One of them happens to be additive manufacturing,” he says. “If we want to have a renaissance of manufacturing, this is how we’re going to do it.”
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