Planetary Resources expects that the Arkyd spacecraft will eventually be mass-produced at cost significantly lower than current spacecraft, so weight must be minimized to the greatest extent possible.

Vauxhall set out to introduce a modified process hanger with a new part that would be used to support each vehicle body throughout the production process. This part is a critical piece and had to perfectly fit both the machinery and the auto body to create correct clearances and avoid damage during production.

The ProX DMP 320 printer is developed from the outcome of nearly half-a-million prints. It offers fast build turnaround times in demanding 24/7 production environments.With DMP, customers have complete control over their production, without relying on speciality components from suppliers. Print entire seemblies on-demand, with fewer components as needed. DMP users can design faster and compress production times. Transform complex assemblies that take hundreds or even thousands of hours to machine and assemble into a single high value part printed in hours or days.

The ProJet CJP 660Pro is the simplest and most efficient large-build, full-color 3D printer of its class on the market with a net Build Area of 254 x 381 x 203 mm (10 x 15 x 8 inches). With a build speed of 1.1 inches an hour, it is fast, accurate and uses eco-friendly, non-hazardous materials with zero liquid waste. It prints to a resolution of 600 x 540 dpi with a minimum feature size of 0.004 inches.The ProJet CJP 660Pro incorporates professional 4-channel CMYK full-color 3D printing to produce exceptional high-resolution models. Ideal for stop motion animation, professional model shops, architects, consumer product design and development, digital manufacturing, fine art production and more. all models produced can be sanded, drilled, tapped, electroplated and have high temperature resistance for use in molding.

The Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute is a unique public-private partnership acting as a world-class, first-of-its-kind manufacturing hub. Based in Chicago, the Institute has the capabilities, innovative spirit and collaborative expertise to transform American manufacturing. Companies can participate on project teams that compete for funds from federal and corporate sources to implement innovative solutions to their manufacturing challenges. Manufacturers can also assess their company’s digital capabilities and benchmark yourself against similar manufacturers. Digital manufacturing and design is the ability to connect different parts of the manufacturing life-cycle through data, and to utilize that information to make smarter, more efficient business decisions. Our institute will increase economic development, generate greater innovation through competitive R&D programs, and expand educational opportunities in digital manufacturing. Just as digital technologies have reconstituted the entertainment, communications and financial sectors, digital technologies are now in the process of transforming the way parts, components and complete systems can be designed and manufactured.

Nordic Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in ultra low power (ULP) short-range wireless communication. The company’s range of 2.4GHz transceiver and transmitter devices are employed by some of the world’s leading brands in a wide variety of applications like wireless keyboard and mouse, game controllers, and intelligent sports equipment.Nordic is a member of the ANT+ Alliance and has successfully collaborated with ANT Wireless of Cochrane, Canada, since 2005. ANT devices– using Nordic 2.4GHz transceivers and the proven ANT protocol – have been used in millions of wireless sensor nodes across the world. ANT is perfectly suited for any kind of low data rate sensor network topologies in personal area networks (PANs) and practical wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Nordic’s products are all manufactured in state of the art semiconductor process technologies through strong, long-term relationships with world-best manufacturing facilities. Nordic is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. All operations are managed according to the ISO 9001:2000-approved quality assurance system.

Impinj wirelessly connects billions of everyday items such as apparel, medical supplies, and automobile parts to consumer and business applications such as inventory management, patient safety, and asset tracking. The Impinj platform uses RAIN RFID to deliver timely information about these items to the digital world, thereby enabling the Internet of ThingsImpinj, Inc. provides ultra high frequency radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions for identifying, locating, and authenticating items. The company’s products include Indy Reader Chips that include integrated radio chips and supporting SDKs; Monza Tag Chips, which deliver memory options and extended features to RFID tags; and Speedway fixed RFID readers and antennas for RFID-based information. It also provides STP Source Tagging Platform, a platform for the creation of high-performance encoding and verification systems. The company serves retail, asset management, consumer electronics, entertainment, healthcare, internet of things, and logistics markets.

Sumida Automation, founded in 2000, is dedicated to providing actuating elements, control components,machine vision components essential to industrial automation equipment in manufacturing industry,satisfactory technical support, and first-class automation solutions for customers.