【英文】2021美国制造业亮点总结报告（105页）

英文研究报告 2021年11月24日 06:00 管理员

The members of each institute collaboratively engage in the pre-competitive development of technologies within their specific field of focus. They test applications for the technology, share capital-intensive infrastructure, and create training programs to develop a workforce with the skills needed for today’s manufacturing. In addition, they answer the call to meet our country’s most pressing challenges, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.The institutes and their member organizations collaborate on applied research and development projects in their individual areas of advanced manufacturing technology. These projects lead to innovations in products and processes that have broad application potential throughout the industry. Collectively, this work helps propel the U.S. manufacturing industry forward in the global race to develop new advanced manufacturing technologies.

Examples of the 532 R&D technology advancement projects from the past year include: Commerce-Sponsored Institute NIIMBL Targets Lowering Vaccine Cost NIIMBL brought together nearly 1,000 individuals from hundreds of organizations across the biopharmaceutical manufacturing ecosystem to collaborate on the innovations needed to strengthen domestic manufacturing for gene therapy, novel antibodies, and vaccines. Complementing this effort was the first NIIMBL collaborative project call for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Health Fund to lower costs and increase speed-to-market of vaccines.

Defense-Sponsored Institutes LIFT Strengthening Armored Vehicles LIFT supported the development of an ironmanganese-aluminum alloy for use as armor on military ground vehicles. The steel is expected to reduce armor weight by more than 10% while matching or exceeding the ballistic performance of rolled homogeneous armor. Through this project, LIFT is optimizing processing conditions to produce affordable, high-quality armor plate in large volumes.