ARM Institute

Our 2024 Annual Member Meeting will take place September 23-25 in Pittsburgh, PA! Registration is now open and our agenda is available. Free to attend and open only to ARM Members, the Annual Member Meeting convenes representatives from across our 400+ member organization consortium for 2.5 days of networking, collaboration, and knowledge-sharing. Take a peek into our 2023 event in the video below to understand what you can expect from the ARM Institute Member Meeting. Our 2024 event will feature even greater networking opportunities, more interactive sessions, updates on key ARM Institute strategic initiatives (including an emphasis on AI for robotics), an indoor/outdoor networking reception with technology demonstrations at our Pittsburgh headquarters, a Member Showcase booth hall, concurrent technology and eduction/workforce development tracks, our extremely popular five-minute member intros, and so much more! Learn more about our event here: https://lnkd.in/eK5QXpkb. ARM Members can register in the ARM Member Community or by emailing membership@arminstitute.org for more information. Not a member? Join by September to be eligible to attend this year's event.

To kick-off Manufacturing Day, the Honorable Aprille J. Ericsson, Ph.D, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Science and Technology (ASD(S&T)) outlines the importance of manufacturing to our nation in this video address. Earlier this week, we worked with our partners at Mill 19, Carnegie Mellon University's Manufacturing Futures Institute and Catalyst Connection, to bring over 100 students from the Pittsburgh region into our building to learn more about manufacturing and explore robotics demonstrations. Increasing awareness about the importance and value of manufacturing careers is critical even beyond this annual celebration. RoboticsCareer.org, our national workforce resource, connects students, teachers, and workers with resources and information about robotics training resources and manufacturing job listings all year! #MFGDay

Join Tasha Miller, PMP, PMI-ACP (ARM Institute Senior Program Manager) and ARM Member Catalyst Connection on Oct. 17 for a webinar exploring: How Robotics and Automation Projects Can Fail in Manufacturing, and How to Make Yours Successful! Robotics and automation are fantastic tools that can boost manufacturing competitiveness, allow for more ambitious business goals, and improve workforce morale and productivity. However, if robots are deployed on the manufacturing floor without consideration of several important factors, they can fall short of expectations and achieving their ROI. If you are a manufacturer looking to learn about these important factors for consideration and steps to reduce the risk of your robotics project falling flat, then tune in for this informative and engaging discussion! https://lnkd.in/ecCsb9zM

Today, in partnership with our Mill 19 collaborators Carnegie Mellon University's Manufacturing Futures Institute (MFI) and Catalyst Connection, we welcomed more than 100 students from across the Pittsburgh region to our shared facility for a #MFGDay event! Students learned more about the job many opportunities that exist in manufacturing through a panel discussion, a training provider exhibit hall, robotics demonstrations, additive manufacturing demonstrations, and more. Educators and administrators then joined us a for a session exploring the resources that MFI, Catalyst Connection, and the ARM Institute have available to help students learn more about manufacturing throughout the year, including RoboticsCareer.org. Thank you to the students, educators, administrators, ARM Members, and regional partners who joined us today!

Manufacturing USA's 2024 Modern Maker campaign continues with ARM Member Gregorio Balandran (Director of Advanced Manufacturing at Amcor) being named a Modern Maker! Gregorio Balandran has seen up close how change is hard for organizations and people in advanced manufacturing whose jobs require precision and repetition. He is an engineer at heart, driven to find better ways to build and make products. It is no surprise that Gregorio finds himself showing manufacturers how to implement robotics in their shops in creative ways. Meet Gregorio in the link below! Modern Makers are individuals whose sense of purpose embodies the Manufacturing USA mission to secure the future of U.S. manufacturing through innovation, education, and collaboration. https://lnkd.in/gB_ykQtB

Catch up on recent ARM Institute impact stories, news, upcoming events, member updates, and more in our September newsletter! Read the September edition and subscribe to receive future editions here: https://lnkd.in/eTiH3Nwx

Time is running out to register for The Connected Worker, Chicago Summit! Catch up with Lisa Masciantonio (ARM Institute Chief Workforce Officer) and Michael Skocik (ARM Institute Director of Federal Technology Initiatives) Oct. 7-10. Join us and your manufacturing peers this fall, and explore cloud-based solutions and innovative technologies that will help you optimize performance, improve manufacturing, and enhance supply chain operations for increased productivity, safety, and quality gains. P.S. Use code ARM20 for 20% on all passes! (Strictly for in-house manufacturing professionals) #CWChicago #Manufacturing #Innovation The Connected Worker Summit Series Learn more and register here: https://lnkd.in/eeZUvtir

Manufacturing USA's Modern Maker Campaign continues with ARM Member Dr. Carley Mollica, PhD from Lockheed Martin being named a 2024 Modern Maker! Dr. Carley Mollica is living the dream role she envisioned as a teenager. When she was 13, her parents sent her to an engineering camp, and she was hooked. In her role at Lockheed Martin, she helps improve and advance U.S. warfighters. Meet Carley and learn more in the link below! Modern Makers are individuals whose sense of purpose embodies the Manufacturing USA mission to secure the future of U.S. manufacturing through innovation, education, and collaboration. https://lnkd.in/euWNdxQF

Day two of our Annual Member Meeting wrapped up yesterday with an indoor/outdoor networking reception at our Pittsburgh headquarters! Our members had the opportunity to explore robotics demos, impact stories from our Robotics Manufacturing Hub, and more Today is the third day of our 8th Annual Member Meeting and we're well into our event! The second half of today will wrap up with concurrent Technology and Education/Workforce Development (EWD) tracks. Our tech track will center on project briefs, a panel discussion led by ARM Member AMT, and more. Our EWD track will center on an interactive activity where Members will give input into an AI competency framework we are working on developing. Thank you again to our Member Meeting sponsors for supporting our event. Our sponsors include platinum members Siemens and GE Vernova, as well as AMT - The Association For Manufacturing Technology, Carnegie Bosch Institute, Corsha, fivestar*, GridRaster Inc., Mason & Hanger, NC3 - National Coalition of Certification Centers, Titan Robotics, Inc., Universal Robots, and Yaskawa Motoman

That's a wrap on day one of our 8th Annual Member Meeting! We heard about new initiatives and annual highlights from Ira Moskowitz (ARM Institute CEO), learned about DoD priorities from Charles D. Ormsby (Air Force Research Laboratory Chief of the Manufacturing and Industrial Technologies Division), learned about ARM Member organizations through a series of five-minute member intros, connected and networked in the Member Showcase Hall, and welcomed our 2024 class of ARM Institute Champions We'll see you bright and early tomorrow!