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America Makes Announces Agreements with Media Partners to Accelerate Additive Manufacturing Technologies

May 06, 2019 | Categories: America Makes News

The Institute Enters into Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with The TCT Group and Digital Engineering

Youngstown, Ohio — May 6, 2019. America Makes proudly announces it has entered into formal agreements with two, leading media organizations, The TCT Group and Digital Engineering, to accelerate the adoption of additive manufacturing technologies. The Memorandums of Understanding with The TCT Group and Digital Engineering, respectively, were finalized last month by the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining, which manages America Makes.

“On behalf of all of us at NCDMM and America Makes, we are very excited to collaborate with these two well-respected industry media leaders,” said NCDMM’s Executive Director of America Makes Rob Gorham. “The partnerships offer a unique opportunity for America Makes to further elevate our role as a ‘coordinator of intellectual capital assets’ by working with The TCT Group and Digital Engineering to build greater awareness of industry insights across the U.S. and globally.”

America Makes Membership Director Tiffany Westbay added, “The partnerships with The TCT Group and Digital Engineering have been a year in the making. The decision to enter into these strategic and mutually beneficial collaborations reflect our shared mission of promoting the advancement, adoption, and commercialization of additive manufacturing technologies. These two organizations will help raise greater awareness among our targeted audience all around the world of the mission and impact of America Makes as the national accelerator for additive manufacturing and 3D printing.”

The TCT Group, a Rapid News Publications Ltd company, delivers business-critical insights, intelligence, and inspiration across Europe, North America, and Asia on 3D printing, additive manufacturing, CAD/CAM/CAE, metrology, inspection and materials, as well as highlighting the latest developments in conventional manufacturing processes such as molding, casting, and CNC machining. The TCT Group mission is to accelerate the adoption of technologies that power innovation in the design-to-manufacturing process chain.

Head of Content at The TCT Group, Daniel O’Connor said, “The vision of America Makes is closely aligned with that of TCT. The sharing of insight across two of the largest additive manufacturing communities on the globe will increase the awareness of technological capabilities and, in turn, accelerate their adoption.”

As a technology media business owned by Peerless Media, Digital Engineering caters to the design engineers and engineering managers who are creating tomorrow’s products using optimal design technologies today. Digital Engineering delivers need-to-know information on the combination of high-performance computing and simulation-based modeling that is driving up-front design, new rapid prototyping and testing technologies that are improving the bottom line, and the engineering services its audience needs to thrive.

“Digital Engineering (formerly Desktop Engineering) has been covering additive manufacturing and 3D printing since 1995 in the pages of DE and via our digital channels,” said Tom Cooney, Publisher of Digital Engineering. “Our product design engineering audience has used this technology for prototyping their designs since the mid ’90s. With recent advances in materials, hardware, and software, our audience is on the frontline of moving additive manufacturing toward full production of their designs. That’s why we are so very excited to be working with America Makes.”

For more information about America Makes or how to become a member, visit the America Makes Web site at https://americamakes.us. Follow us on Twitter @AmericaMakes.

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About America Makes

America Makes is the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute. As the national accelerator for additive manufacturing (AM), America Makes is the nation’s leading and collaborative partner in AM and 3DP technology research, discovery, creation, and innovation. Structured as a public-private partnership with member organizations from industry, academia, government, non-government agencies, and workforce and economic development resources, we are working together to innovate and accelerate AM to increase our nation’s global manufacturing competitiveness. Based in Youngstown, Ohio, America Makes is the first Institute within the Manufacturing USA infrastructure and is driven by the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM). For more information about America Makes, visit americamakes.us.

About NCDMM

NCDMM delivers innovative and collaborative manufacturing solutions that enhance our nation’s workforce and economic competitiveness. NCDMM has extensive knowledge and depth in manufacturing areas—both commercial and defense—continually innovate, improve, and advance manufacturing technologies and methodologies. Our experienced team specializes in identifying the needs, the players, the technologies, and processes to attain optimal solutions for our customers. We connect the dots. That’s the NCDMM methodology. NCDMM also manages the national accelerator for additive manufacturing (AM) and 3DP printing (3DP), America Makes and the V4 Institute. For additional information, visit the NCDMM at ncdmm.org.

About Rapid News Publications Ltd.

Rapid News Publications Ltd, the owner of the TCT Group, has been a leading authority in additive manufacturing, 3D printing, design and engineering technology for over 25 years. The group’s events and media products now deliver business-critical insights, intelligence and inspiration across Europe, North America and Asia on 3D printing, additive manufacturing, CAD/CAM/CAE, metrology, inspection and materials as well as highlighting the latest developments in conventional manufacturing processes such as molding, casting and CNC machining. The TCT Group (thetctgroup.com) is owned by Rapid News Publications Ltd (rapidnews.com) a member of the AEO (Association of Event Organisers) and BPA Worldwide.

About Digital Engineering

Digital Engineering (DE) is the market leader in technology information for design engineering teams. Our print magazine, DigitalEngineering247.com, e-newsletters, webcasts, research and white papers focus on cutting-edge content to help design engineering teams discover, evaluate and specify the technologies and processes that shorten the design cycle, enable optimal designs and connect the digital thread. Learn more at digitalengineering247.com.

About Peerless Media LLC

Peerless Media produces industry-leading brands in the logistics, supply chain, materials handling and design engineering markets. Our flagship brands, Modern Materials Handling, Material Handling Product News, Material Handling 24/7, Logistics Management, Supply Chain Management Review, Supply Chain 24/7, NextGen Supply Chain Conference and Digital Engineering are the content leaders in their respective fields for news, analysis and resources. Peerless offers unparalleled marketing opportunities for branding, lead-generation, research, content creation and thought leadership. Learn more at peerlessmedia.com.