{"id":2986,"date":"2017-03-02T15:44:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T20:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poweramericainstitute.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=2986"},"modified":"2019-01-16T10:01:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T15:01:18","slug":"poweramerica-executive-director-moderates-manufacturing-usa-caucus-on-capitol-hill","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/news\/poweramerica-executive-director-moderates-manufacturing-usa-caucus-on-capitol-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerAmerica Executive Director Moderates Manufacturing USA Caucus on Capitol Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poweramericainstitute.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2989 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Manucturing-USA-Caucus-Pic-1-1-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, March 1, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poweramericainstitute.org\/\">PowerAmerica<\/a> Executive Director Nick Justice moderated a session at the U.S. Capitol sponsored by the Senate Competitiveness Caucus and House Manufacturing Caucus titled, \u201cResponding to Global Manufacturing Challenges: The Business Case for<a href=\"https:\/\/manufacturingusa.com\/\">Manufacturing USA<\/a> Institutes.\u201d Speakers included Sen. Chris Coons, Sen. Dick Durbin and Rep. Tim Ryan, as well as a panel of industry and institute members \u2013 Caralynn Collins, CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uilabs.org\/innovation-platforms\/manufacturing\/\">UI Labs\/DMDII<\/a> (a Manufacturing USA institute); Kelvin Lee, director of the newest Manufacturing USA institute, the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.niimbl.us\/\">National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL)<\/a>; Jorg Thommes, senior vice president at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visterrainc.com\/\">Visterra<\/a>; and Raj Batra, president of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.siemens.com\/businesses\/us\/en\/digital-factory.htm\">Siemens USA\u2019s Digital Factory business<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The session also featured a presentation by <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.deloitte.com\/us\/en.html\">Deloitte<\/a> principal Kelly Marchese, titled \u201cManufacturing USA: A Third Party Evaluation of Program Design and Progress.\u201d The firm conducted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.deloitte.com\/content\/dam\/Deloitte\/us\/Documents\/manufacturing\/us-mfg-manufacturing-USA-program-and-process.pdf\">third-party assessment of the institutes<\/a>, finding them to be a \u201cvalid approach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The session focused on the successes to date and potential of the <a href=\"https:\/\/manufacturingusa.com\/\">Manufacturing USA<\/a> Institutes, of which there are now 14. The institutes are engaged with industry to advance critical technologies and grow emerging industries in the United States in order to create U.S. manufacturing jobs and stay globally competitive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poweramericainstitute.org\/\">PowerAmerica<\/a> was one of the first Manufacturing USA institutes to be established, and is located on the Centennial Campus of N.C. State University in Raleigh. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poweramericainstitute.org\/\">PowerAmerica<\/a> is focused on accelerating the development and large-scale adoption of wide bandgap semiconductor technology, which is more energy-efficient than power electronics widely available today. The institute has formed a network of collaboration between manufacturers and end users and funds projects that enhance performance capability, improve reliability and reduce the cost of this technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, March 1, PowerAmerica Executive Director Nick Justice moderated a session at the U.S. Capitol sponsored by the Senate Competitiveness Caucus and House Manufacturing Caucus titled, \u201cResponding to Global [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2986"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=2986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}