Download Discussion of AMP - the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership

Discussion of AMP the Advanced
Manufacturing
Partnership
William B. Bonvillian
Director, MIT Wash. Office
National Governors Association
October 6, 2011
Our “Innovate here/Produce
Here” Assumption?
 Since WWII - U.S. economy organized around leading
the world in technology advance.
 US led innovation wave after innovation wave in the
second half of the 20th century,
 from aviation to electronics, to nuclear power to
computing to the internet to biotech
 Our operating assumption - we would innovate and we
would translate those innovations into products
 So we would realize the economic gains from innovation
– at every stage – from innovation to production to
services
 It worked – we built the richest economy the world had
ever seen.
 But with distributed manufacturing and lack of focus on
productivity in production, there’s a problem
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What’s at Stake:
The Hourglass --
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<---- Resources, Suppliers,
Components, Innovation
<--- Production (11m jobs)
<--- Distribution, Sales,
Maintenance, Life Cycle
What is AMP up to?
 Pres. announced 6/24 -- Partnership so far:
 Companies:
 Dow, Allegheny, Caterpillar, Corning, Ford,
Honeywell, Intel, Johnson & Johnson,
Northrup Grumman, Proctor and Gamble,
Stryker, United Technologies
 Agencies:
 NEC, OSTP, NIST, DARPA, Mantech, DOE,
NSF
 Universities:
 Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, Stanford,
UC Berkely, Michigan, MIT
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Pillars of AMP Efforts Overall, an Innovation Focus
 Technology development
 What are new manufacturing paradigms
 nanofabrication, advanced materials, robotics,
energy efficiency, to give a few examples.
 Historically, shifts in manufacturing advantage have
stemmed from introduction of combination of:
 Technology advances
 process advances
 new business and organizational models
 Structural Challenges
 barriers to commercialization and scaling
 Tools, Collaborations, Shared Facilities
 Skills and Education
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Workstreams
Built around pillars
Technology strands – will need subgroups
Overall policy – esp. for innovation process
Education and workforce development
Shared facilities - testbeds
Outreach – short term – how to engage
broader group of co’s, univ’s, industry
associations, states, etc.
Action plan not a study/report