{"id":8330,"date":"2021-07-29T08:36:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T08:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mrpeasy.com\/blog\/?p=8330"},"modified":"2021-08-05T07:51:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T07:51:29","slug":"week-30-in-manufacturing-news-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrpeasy.com\/blog\/week-30-in-manufacturing-news-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 30 in Manufacturing News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DOE Announces New $60 Million Investment to Increase Energy Efficiency in Manufacturing; The Senate Voted to Take up a Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal; New \u00a353 million funding for UK manufacturers to boost competitiveness through digital tech; Manufacturing Digitalisation Symposium \u2013 Key takeaways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrpeasy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MRPeasy-manufacturing-news-week-30.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mrpeasy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MRPeasy-manufacturing-news-week-30.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.mrpeasy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MRPeasy-manufacturing-news-week-30-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mrpeasy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MRPeasy-manufacturing-news-week-30-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">DOE Announces New $60 Million Investment to Increase Energy Efficiency in Manufacturing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>32 Universities Across 28 States Will Conduct Industrial Assessments to Help Local Manufacturers Reduce Carbon Footprint, Lower Costs, and Train Energy Workforce of Tomorrow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $60 million in funding for its largest-ever cohort of university-based Industrial Assessment Centers (IACs), which assist small- and medium-sized manufacturers in reducing their carbon emissions and lowering energy costs, while training the next generation of energy-efficiency workers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" aria-label=\"Energy.gov (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/articles\/doe-announces-new-60-million-investment-increase-energy-efficiency-manufacturing\" target=\"_blank\">Energy.gov<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Senate Voted to Take up a Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a breakthrough for the plan, which still needs final approval from both chambers. The vote came just hours after senators in both parties and the White House reached a long-sought compromise on the $1 trillion bill, which would provide federal money for roads, bridges, rail lines, transit projects, water systems and other physical infrastructure programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2021\/07\/28\/us\/politics-news\/infrastructure-deal-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" aria-label=\"The New York Times (opens in a new tab)\">The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New \u00a353 million funding for UK manufacturers to boost competitiveness through digital tech<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Five brand new digital manufacturing research centres and projects to help supply chains become more productive are among recipients of \u00a353 million of new government funding to drive the development of the latest digital manufacturing technologies, Investment Minister Lord Grimstone announced today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The funding has been awarded though the national Made Smarter programme, a collaboration between UK government and industry designed to support the development and increase use of these emerging technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" aria-label=\"gov.uk (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/new-53-million-funding-for-uk-manufacturers-to-boost-competitiveness-through-digital-tech\" target=\"_blank\">gov.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Manufacturing Digitalisation Symposium \u2013 Key takeaways<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Digitalisation is changing how products are designed, produced, used and maintained as well as transforming the operations, processes and the sustainability of factories and supply chains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Key takeaways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>People come first<\/li><li>Industry giants are not perfect <\/li><li>Identify digitalisation objectives<\/li><li>Devise a clear digitalisation strategy<\/li><li>Pick the right technology enablers<\/li><li>Create technology leadership<\/li><li> Train your staff on implementing a digital culture.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themanufacturer.com\/articles\/manufacturing-digitalisation-symposium-key-takeaways\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" aria-label=\"The Manufacturer (opens in a new tab)\">The Manufacturer<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOE Announces New $60 Million Investment to Increase Energy Efficiency in Manufacturing; The Senate Voted to Take up a Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal; New \u00a353 million funding for UK manufacturers to boost competitiveness through digital tech; Manufacturing Digitalisation Symposium \u2013 Key takeaways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Week 30 in Manufacturing News - Blog for Manufacturers and Distributors<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Manufacturing news week 30 in 2021. 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