HMUSA 2022 Conference: Digital Twins, Cybersecurity, and an Empowered Workforce for Manufacturing

About the presentation
This presentation highlights work MxD does with its members to advance digital manufacturing technologies such as digital twins, artificial intelligence, and augmented and virtual reality. It also highlights future work and how they’re leveraging emerging technologies like 5G to secure the future of U.S. manufacturing. Finally, as the national center for cybersecurity in manufacturing, this presentation highlights the importance of wrapping security within the technologies being developed.

Registration
Powered by AMT and managed by GIE Media, The IMTS 2022 Conference features 69 different sessions you won’t want to miss so register today. Focused on a range of topics that include process innovation, plant operations, quality/inspection, and automation, The IMTS 2022 Conference addresses improving productivity; improving part quality; and developing a stable, competent workforce to lower the cost of manufacturing in the United States and create new levels of market demand.

Meet your presenter
Federico Sciammarella is the president and CTO for MxD. In this role, he’s responsible for portfolio management including the prioritization of projects. He also leads academic outreach engagement and launched a program in 2020 targeted for emerging technologies that connects academics to industry with the goal of bringing up early-stage technology through to later stages of technology readiness. He supports the operational execution of MxD cyber as the national center for cybersecurity in manufacturing to ensure its continued growth and impact within the U.S. supply chain. Prior to joining the institute, he served as the interim chair for the mechanical engineering department at Northern Illinois University’s College of Engineering & Engineering Technology for two years. He was also the director of the Advanced Research of Materials and Manufacturing (ARMM) Laboratory, with a focus on additive manufacturing (AM). He was the principal investigator (PI) of a $2.4 million NIST Measurement Science in Additive Manufacturing award entitled “Development and Validation of Physics-Based Additive Manufacturing Models for Process Control and Quality Assurance,” and served as a co-PI on an MxD subcontract, “Rapid Process Certification and Verification for High Value-Added and Low-Volume Production.” The team developed a solid foundation for processing control and modeling in metal 3D printing critical for the future success of the technology. In 2012, Sciammarella served as the Competency Area Manager for the Laser Materials Processing group within the National Laser Center at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) located in Pretoria, South Africa, where the team developed a variety of laser material processing technologies that launched into commercial products in South Africa.

About the company
MxD  is where innovative manufacturers go to forge their futures. In partnership with the Department of Defense, MxD equips U.S. factories with the digital tools, cybersecurity, and workforce expertise needed to begin building every part better than the last. As a result, our more than 300 partners increase their productivity, win more business, and strengthen U.S. manufacturing.