ISE/CATS Seminar "From Real-Time to the Web: The Technologies of Industrial Robots"
The Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) Department and the Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS) are pleased to present a seminar by Steve Murphy, Corporate Executive Engineer, ABB, Sweden, entitled: "From Real-Time to the Web: The Technologies of Industrial Robots," to be held in CII 5003 on Thursday, February 13 at 3:30pm. Everyone is welcome!!
From the White House Blog: America’s Manufacturing Sector Continues to Show Momentum, With New Data Monday Showing Manufacturing Growing at Fastest Pace Since Early 2011
A core component of President Obama’s agenda to grow the middle class is to make the U.S. a magnet for the location of high-quality jobs – especially those that support manufacturing and innovation.
CATS Director John Wen Receives IEEE Control Systems Society Transition to Practice Award
CATS Director and ISE Head John Wen has been selected to receive the 2013 IEEE Control Systems Society Transition to Practice Award. This prize is awarded by the society to recognize outstanding university-industry collaboration that enables the transition of control and systems theory to practical industrial or commercial systems. The citation for this award is “Adaptive Scanning Optical Microscopes and a high precision laser scanning system for the electronic manufacturing industry and for translation of systems theory to practice”.
Over 325 Attend Inaugural CATS/CEG Advanced Manufacturing Conference
More than 325 from industry, academia and government attended the inaugural CATS/CEG Advanced Manufacturing Conference: Think Smart, Make Value held on April 16 and 17 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Troy, NY. The two-day conference, presented by a partnership between the Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Center for Economic Growth (CEG) brought together leaders from industry, government, and academia to address challenges facing regional manufacturers, and provide a strategic look at emerging ways to leverage the power of automation technologies, business best practices, and take advantage of available state and regional resources to better compete and succeed in the global marketplace.
Smart Manufacturing Coalition-led Project Wins DOE Clean Energy Manufacturing Contract
The Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition (SMLC) today announced that it won a 2013 Clean Energy Manufacturing contract to start developing the nation’s first open smart manufacturing technology platform for collaborative industrial networked information applications. The innovative $10 million project, led by the SMLC, will receive $7.8 million in funding from the U.S. Dept. of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Program.
