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SUMMARY:The Digital Future of Manufacturing\, Policy and Technology Opport
 unities for American Innovation - Professor Thomas R. Kurfess Professor an
 d HUSCO/Ramirez Distinguished Chair in Fluid Power and Motion Control at T
 he George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\, Georgia Institute
  of Technology
DTSTART:20140513T160000Z
DTEND:20140513T180000Z
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CONTACT:Antonio Andreoni
DESCRIPTION:Manufacturing has been identified as President Obama’s numbe
 r one priority\, as it is critical for the economic prosperity and nationa
 l security of the United States of America. Professor Kurfess will present
  an overview of the Administration’s endeavors in advancing manufacturin
 g with a focus on the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI)
  which was discussed in the 2013 and 2014 State of the Union Addresses. Th
 e NNMI will be presented as it relates to the historic development of inte
 rests in manufacturing\, and its place in the overall federal manufacturin
 g strategy identifying the technical and cultural strengths of the Nation 
 that can be leveraged to strengthen the country’s manufacturing base.\n 
 \nOne of these strengths is the Cyber Physical Systems infrastructure that
  is currently available and rapidly expanding. Professor Kurfess will disc
 uss how such technologies can be employed to move manufacturing completely
  into a digital domain by employing digital models\, in conjunction with r
 eadily available High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms (e.g.\, multi-
 core\, GPU\, and cloud) to enable rapid process and production planning fo
 r use in both cost estimation/quoting and\, ultimately\, production and ve
 rification. For cloud manufacturing\, this will enable even the smallest a
 nd least sophisticated manufacturing node in the cloud to rapidly respond 
 to large number of quote requests for complex parts utilizing low cost cyb
 er infrastructure resources that are currently available and expanding on 
 a daily basis. Furthermore\, this capability will enable designers and man
 ufacturers to optimize their performance including minimizing costs\, ener
 gy consumption\, waste generation (scrap and chips)\, and material utiliza
 tion (light weight designs)\, ultimately opening-up new markets and busine
 ss models for local Small and Medium Sized Enterprises that currently empl
 oy the majority of many local population segments.
LOCATION:Lecture Room\, Institute for Manufacturing IfM
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