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Phoenix Contact and students celebrate National Engineers Week with Mars rover simulation project.

FANUC America and Rockwell Automation officially formed a coalition to kick off accelerated work and learn apprenticeship programs designed to upskill current and future workers for jobs in advanced manufacturing, robotics and automation.

Over this decade, demand for connected worker solutions is expected to rise exponentially with the high-end technologies such as IIOT (Industrial Internet of Things), 5G adoption by manufacturing industries in order to boost their productivity, and workplace safety.

Seeking to help fix societal issues around youth skills development in the STEM sector, leading engineering business adi Group marks 2021 with the five-year anniversary of its unique pre apprenticeship scheme.

AMETEK Precitech has announced the shipment of a Nanoform X ultra-precision diamond turning lathe to Keene State College.

At the height of the pandemic, the world was facing a state of emergency, the manufacturing industry was in crisis, and the global supply chain was on the brink of destruction. With factories in danger of being shut down worldwide and social distancing mandates in place, the demand for new technologies—and AI, in particular—skyrocketed.

"Knowledge increases when it is shared"–following this maxim, IDS is making its expertise as one of the leading manufacturers of digital industrial cameras free of charge and directly accessible on a new platform.

AMETEK Surface Vision now offers remote training courses to provide safe, convenient instructions on how to get the best performance from its industry-leading online surface inspection solutions.

AVEVA Unified Learning boosts operator expertise with OEG Knowledge Library Content to support the shift to remote industrial worker learning as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.

Honeywell announced the creation of the Immersive Field Simulator, a virtual reality training tool designed to produce a detailed facsimile of an industrial plant’s facility down to each pump, valve and touch screen.

ProMat will continue to deliver the unrivaled solution-sourcing, education and networking it is known for through a state-of-the-art digital expo–ProMat Digital Experience (ProMatDX).

Constellium has agreed to join Project MFG as a Technology Partner for its Next Generation Manufacturing Challenge Series.

In its ongoing support of the manufacturing technology community, IMTS–The International Manufacturing Technology Show launched a virtual Miles For Manufacturing (M4M) event in October— continuing through March 2021—that is designed to fund community-based organizations that champion under-represented, under-served students who participate in STEM and robotics programs in schools, in addition to directly funding STEM and FIRST™ robotics programs.

NUM’s Taiwan subsidiary has donated a complete CNC hardware and software package to the National Formosa University in Huwei.

A distributor of natural gas needed a lightweight, local, wireless access solution at remote sites to replace old paper recording calibration methods. The patent-pending Xona platform met the distributor’s stringent efficiency and cybersecurity requirements.

Online initiative provided entertaining educational platform for school students to explore and develop their computer programming skills.

Bedrock Automation, maker of Bedrock OSA®, the world’s most powerful and secure automation platform, has announced that the School of Bedrock™ is now open for free technical training in Open Secure Automation (OSA).

In partnership with PDC Racing, the competition uses motorsport as a gateway for students to develop STEM skills and engineering knowledge.

Automation is the key to sustained economic prosperity for American manufacturing. However, in order to truly tap into its potential, the U.S. must ensure that the industry has the necessary talent pool to work in tandem with these new technologies. The key is a viable STEM education system that will create a pipeline of necessary talent.

These programs honor the remarkable achievements and contributions of ISA members.