In November 2023, the U.S. National Manufacturing Innovation Network (Manufacturing USA) released a national roadmap for U.S. manufacturing to revitalize the U.S. manufacturing workforce. The network consists of 17 U.S. manufacturing innovation institutes, some of which will be funded by the CHIPS for America program to promote research and commercialization of semiconductor manufacturing technologies in the United States. This issue of Meta Strategy provides an in-depth look at the "U.S. National Manufacturing Innovation Network" to provide readers with reference for discussing advanced manufacturing in the United States.
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Background of the establishment
In June 2011, the U.S. President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology recommended the formation of the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP), which is responsible for identifying opportunities for collaboration between industry, academia, and government to promote the development and investment of emerging technologies, policies, and partnerships that have the potential to transform and revitalize advanced manufacturing in the United States. The AMP Steering Committee made recommendations to improve the competitiveness of the U.S. manufacturing industry, and the key recommendation was that the U.S. should establish a "National Network of Manufacturing Innovation Agencies."
In January 2013, after a nationwide rollout and engagement effort, the preliminary design of the U.S. National Manufacturing Innovation Network was released. That same year, AMP 2.0 finalized a cross-sectoral national effort to ensure U.S. leadership in emerging technologies that will create high-quality manufacturing jobs and enhance U.S. global competitiveness.
In December 2014, the U.S. Congress passed the Revitalizing American Manufacturing and Innovation Act (RAMI Act), which authorizes the U.S. Congress to establish the Office of National Planning for Advanced Manufacturing. In the same year, the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI) was established to build an innovation network for the U.S. national manufacturing industry. Academia and federal partners come together in an expanding network of advanced manufacturing research to improve the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing and promote the creation of a strong and sustainable national manufacturing R&D infrastructure.
The National Manufacturing Innovation Network is operated by the National Program Office for Advanced Manufacturing, which is headquartered in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and collaborates with the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the U.S. Department of Education (ED), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) work together to do this.
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Target requirements
The purpose of the National Manufacturing Innovation Network is to ensure U.S. global leadership in advanced manufacturing through large-scale public-private partnerships in technology, supply chain, and workforce development. The National Manufacturing Innovation Network consists of four specific goals for the research institutes in the U.S. Manufacturing Network, which convene business competitors, academic institutions, and other stakeholders to test the application of new technologies, create new products, reduce costs and risks, and equip the manufacturing workforce with the skills of the future:
The first is to improve the way of life of American workers. The innovations of the National Manufacturing Innovation Network produce products that help workers, make buildings safer, consume less energy, and save American lives, improving the future through research today;
The second is to promote the economic prosperity of the United States. The U.S. National Manufacturing Innovation Network leads research and development of key manufacturing technologies to strengthen U.S. global competitiveness and ensure that the U.S. reaps the rewards of innovation at scale;
The third is to ensure the national security of the United States. The U.S. National Manufacturing Innovation Network supports strong advanced manufacturing, which is critical to U.S. cyber, economic, energy, food, and health security, and its emphasis on domestic manufacturing and technology will ensure U.S. national security;
Fourth, enhance the capabilities of the next generation. The National Manufacturing Innovation Network partners with educational institutions to teach advanced manufacturing technologies through seminars, courses, internships, and apprenticeships. Through this investment in skills, U.S. manufacturing will develop the next generation of talent.
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How it works
The U.S. Manufacturing Institute Network is a network of 17 manufacturing-related innovation institutes that are public-private partnerships, each with a different technology focus, but all working toward a common goal: to secure the future of U.S. manufacturing through innovation, education, and collaboration.
Through these national institutes, industry, academia, and government partners are leveraging existing resources to collaborate and co-invest to increase manufacturing innovation and accelerate commercialization. Each institute is a membership-based organization that provides vision, leadership, and resources to its members. The U.S. National Manufacturing Innovation Network connects people, ideas, and technology to solve the challenges of advanced manufacturing related to industry.
To improve U.S. industrial competitiveness, promote economic growth, reduce energy consumption, and strengthen U.S. national security, the U.S. National Manufacturing Innovation Network reaches out to all walks of life, bringing together manufacturing members through its research institutes, overcoming technical barriers, developing innovative new products, and restoring U.S. dominance in manufacturing by addressing common manufacturing technology and labor challenges. The National Manufacturing Innovation Network (NIN) is building an innovation network through the establishment of new institutes, as well as collaboration and knowledge sharing with existing institutes, to inject new blood into the U.S. economy with next-generation manufacturers, manufacturing supply chains, talent development programs, and technology centers of excellence.
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17 manufacturing industries
Introduction to the Innovation Institute
(1) Electronics
(2) Materials field
(3) Energy/environment field
(4) Digitalization/automation
(5) The field of biomanufacturing
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Conclusion
The National Manufacturing Innovation Network and its nationwide partner organizations are taking full advantage of the opportunities presented by the Fourth Industrial Revolution that will transform the way Americans live and work, including rapid prototyping manufacturing, biotechnology, clean energy, cybersecurity, digital threads, quantum computing, robotics, and artificial intelligence. In 2021, institutes supported more than 700 major applied R&D projects involving more than 2,300 different organizations and provided advanced manufacturing workforce development and training to more than 90,000 people, with $480 million in U.S. state, federal, and industry funding to support these efforts.
Today, U.S. manufacturing contributes more than $2.3 trillion annually to the economy, supports more than 12 million good-paying jobs, and conducts much of the nation's private sector research and development, making it a major source of innovation in the United States. The U.S. National Manufacturing Innovation Network is the icing on the cake of this solid foundation for the U.S. to ensure that the U.S. continues to be a global manufacturing leader in the future, with its 17 U.S. Manufacturing Innovation Institutes bringing together stakeholders such as industry (private sector, etc.), academia (including universities, community colleges, technical colleges, etc.), national laboratories, federal, state, and local governments to form strong public-private partnerships for collaborative research and development, application testing, personnel training, and mitigating the risks associated with deploying new technologies to promote nongovernmental investment and accelerate the development of advanced manufacturing capabilities in the United States. This innovative approach to large-scale manufacturing not only provides strong support for the introduction of advanced manufacturing technologies and processes into the U.S. industrial base, creating a series of eye-catching high-paying manufacturing jobs for the U.S., but also greatly promotes the rapid development of emerging industries in the U.S. and enhances the position of the U.S. manufacturing industry in global competition.
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