Title:
Roadmapping Workshop Reveals Key Pain Points and Leverages Areas of Advanced Tooling Manufacturing
Description:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and The University of Toledo, College of Engineering, conducted road mapping sessions to solicit input from industry leaders on research that will benefit U.S. tooling manufacturers. The workshop involved representatives from industry, academia, national labs and government sectors discussing the challenges facing the U.S. mold and die industry to identify the efforts needed to increase the U.S. global market share and decrease the dependence on offshore tooling. Come hear about the four key areas of research revealed that will impact mold manufacturing moving forward:
- Advancing manufacturing technology for automotive molds and dies
- Material innovation for molds and dies
- Smart molds and dies with machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI)
- Workforce development, education and training.