Students in Huntsville-Madison County, Alabama, will participate in FlexFactor following $250,000 Boeing grant HUNTSVILLE, Ala.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Boeing has awarded $250,000 toward a new workforce development initiative in partnership with the Alabama Community College System and NextFlex, America’s Flexible Hybrid Electronics Innovation Institute. The fund will fuel the local adoption of …
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Demonstrating Advanced Manufacturing in the U.S. Capital By Malcolm Thompson On October 10th the U.S. House and Senate Manufacturing Caucus hosted a Congressional Briefing and Expo in the Rayburn Building entitled, Manufacturing USA®: Securing U.S. Global Leadership in Advanced Manufacturing. The event highlighted results achieved to date by the 14 …
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The field of flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) has seen a great increase in activity in the three years since NextFlex was established, as capabilities at both the laboratory and manufacturing level have steadily come online. There are still, however, pockets of information about the current state of FHE manufacturing, as …
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FlexFactor® kicked off the 2018-2019 school year with four Project Lead the Way (PLTW) classes from Campbell Union High School District (CUHSD) in California. Students in the capstone PLTW class, Engineering Design and Development (EDD), put their research and design chops to good use as they built out their FlexFactor …
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As part of their mission to support manufacturing and technology companies, the Manufacturing Extension Partnerships in Massachusetts and New York have each planned regional events with support from the Department of Defense to highlight state and federal investments in manufacturing. The events are open to Institute members and nonmembers alike …
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Big News from the East Coast! I’m writing this from Binghamton, NY, where I just spoke at the 30th Annual Electronics Packaging Symposium, and NextFlex is very pleased to have just announced the formation of two NextFlex “Nodes” to support regional FHE manufacturing ecosystems in New York and Massachusetts. Since …
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