SME Announces 2023 Award of Merit Honorees Author: SME Communications March 30, 2023 SME, the nonprofit association committed to advancing widespread adoption of manufacturing technologies and developing North America’s talent and capabilities, has announced that Timothy D. “Tim” Bond, LSME, CMfgE, and Farhad Ghadamli, CAM-F, are its 2023 SME Award of Merit recipients.
Candidate Application for SME Member Council Representative Completed applications must be received by the Nominating Committee no later than February 15. Applications received after February 15 will not be eligible for consideration.
Tooling U-SME, CESMII Launch Fundamentals of Smart Manufacturing Learning Curriculum Author: SME Communications June 13, 2023 Tooling U-SME, the workforce development division of SME, and CESMII–The Smart Manufacturing Institute, sponsored by NIST and the U.S Department of Energy, have launched a Fundamentals of Smart Manufacturing learning curriculum for building awareness and educating the workforce around newly available smart manufacturing processes and technologies.
AM Production Club The AM Production Club is a unique opportunity to recognize manufacturers of AM parts that have produced a certain number of parts in a calendar year using additive manufacturing. There is no limit on the number of companies that can be admitted to the club.
2023 SME College of Fellows Since 1986, the SME College of Fellows has honored those members who have made outstanding contributions to the social, technological and educational aspects of the manufacturing profession. These nine industry professionals have earned this highly prestigious honor through 20 years or more of dedication and service to manufacturing.
Composite Manufacturing Emerging Innovator Award This award is intended to focus on emerging leaders in Composites Manufacturing with interest in helping others. The award spans the composites manufacturing industry, including aerospace and automotive component manufacturing, fabrication, layup, curing, automation, and inspection.
Awards The 20 awardees were selected based on their diverse manufacturing backgrounds, technology advancements/improvements and state-of-the-art research.
Certifiable Resource Planning December 29, 2023 It was a dream that started in 2014, when David Pannell and his father bought out the latter’s partner to obtain Faircloth Machine Shop Inc., but he quickly realized there was a pressing need to update the company’s outdated organizational system.
