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NextFlex News – April 2019 Newsletter
Great Partners, Great Progress
We’re off to a great start in 2019, with lots of project activity and member engagement. Earlier this month, Boe …
The formation of NextFlex has been a benefit to the rapidly expanding field of Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE). Formed in 2015 through a cooperative agreement between the US Department of Defense (DoD) and FlexTech Alliance, NextFlex is a consortium of companies, academic institutions, non-profits and state, local and federal governments with a shared goal of advancing U.S. Manufacturing of FHE. Learn more.
We are manufacturers.
We are innovators.
We are educators.
It takes people coming together from across the United States in industry, academia and state, local and federal governments to collaborate and coordinate their efforts to move what are a series of good ideas from R&D, into commercial production, and to then have a skilled and available workforce able to manufacture the solution at the other end. And at the center of all of these efforts, acting as the connective tissue binding everything together, is NextFlex.
What are the benefits of joining NextFlex?
- Gain competitive advantageBecoming a member of NextFlex positions your organization for recognition as a member of a small community of thought leaders that are driving manufacturing innovation.
- Enhance your supply chainYou’ll create connections with a wide array of “first movers” that are likely to play a critical role in your company commercializing its next big product. You’ll be able to leverage NextFlex expertise to move along the experience curve faster, at less cost, with reduced chance of project failure.
- Identify best practicesNextFlex is developing the competencies and capabilities across multiple disciplines including control, information, process, safety and manufacturing operations that will become the standard used by all FHE players.
- Enhance your supply chainYou’ll create connections with a wide array of “first movers” that are likely to play a critical role in your company commercializing its next big product. You’ll be able to leverage NextFlex expertise to move along the experience curve faster, at less cost, with reduced chance of project failure.
“NextFlex will advance flexible hybrid electronics manufacturing, enabling domestic production of this critical technology.”
“... hybrid electronics has the potential to bring significant performance improvements and new design standards for aerospace and defense applications.”
“With FHE, we can take a product that already exists or one that is an idea, and design a novel wearable product that provides unique functionality that previously was not realized.”
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New Advanced Manufacturing Technology Curriculum Designed to Serve the Workforce Development Needs of NextFlex Members
By Emily McGrath, Deputy Director of Workforce Development, NextFlex
Evergreen Valley College (EVC), San Jose, CA, in partnership with NextFlex a …
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Member Alert: Project Call 5.0
Project Call 5.0 is slated for release on June 10, 2019, this Member Alert is to announce the call for topics and schedule associated with the pr …
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NextFlex’s FHE Applications for Aerospace Workshop a Resounding Success
By Scott Miller, Director of Strategic Programs, NextFlex
The latest NextFlex workshop was a deemed a tremendous success in terms of the diversit …
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As NextFlex Members, Companies large and small are teaming up with academic institutions, nonprofits and governments with one mission — to advance the flexible hybrid electronics’ manufacturing ecosystem in America.
NexTex Ventures/NSM
TTM Technologies
ITN Energy Systems
Northeastern University
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
Innovize
Komori America
Integrated Deposition Solutions
Adv Materials Solutions
Human Systems Integration
Profusa
Blueshift Materials
Electro Scientific Industries, Inc.
Lux Semiconductors
Stretch Med, Inc.
