{"id":4208,"date":"2017-10-10T09:33:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T13:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poweramericainstitute.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=4208"},"modified":"2019-01-16T10:01:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T15:01:18","slug":"poweramerica-celebrates-national-manufacturing-day","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/news\/poweramerica-celebrates-national-manufacturing-day\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerAmerica Celebrates National Manufacturing Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4210\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2U8A2098-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4210\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4210\" src=\"https:\/\/www.poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2U8A2098-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From L to R, John Nicholson (NCDEQ), Jason Massey (industrial.io), Dr. Raoul Farer (Freudenberg Performance Materials), Dr. Dave Grider (Wolfspeed).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>PowerAmerica and the Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster (RTCC) joined together Thursday, Oct. 5 to host a National Manufacturing Day \u201cSmart Speaker Series\u201d at the PowerAmerica offices in Raleigh.<\/p>\n<p>The panel featured John Nicholson, Chief Deputy Secretary of the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ); as well as industry representatives Jason Massey of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/industrial.io\/\">industrial.io<\/a>, Raoul Farer of Freudenberg Performance Materials, and Dave Grider from Wolfspeed \u2013 a Cree Company.\u00a0 They spoke to a crowd of about 50 people.\u00a0 Moderating the panel was Nick Justice, Executive Director of PowerAmerica.<\/p>\n<p>The combination of state government and representation from the advanced manufacturing industry made for an interesting and varied discussion. Collaboration was a key topic, as NCDEQ expressed a desire to forge stronger relationships with regional cleantech startups and the State Energy Office.<\/p>\n<p>Another topic of discussion centered around the fact that many advanced manufacturing technologies (such as electric vehicles) are at a tipping point of being adopted on a wider scale. Dave Grider of Wolfspeed gave the example of silicon carbide being on the verge of rapidly replacing silicon in power electronics products.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, it was a fantastic National Manufacturing Day event highlighting exciting industry advances, particularly those surrounding the theme of energy efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Panel presentations can be accessed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net\/rtcc\/pages\/44\/attachments\/original\/1507566722\/FINAL_FINAL_Manufacturing_Combined_PowerPoint_%28Reduced%29.pdf?1507566722\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PowerAmerica and the Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster (RTCC) joined together Thursday, Oct. 5 to host a National Manufacturing Day \u201cSmart Speaker Series\u201d at the PowerAmerica offices in Raleigh. The panel [&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\/4208"}],"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=4208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/4208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4208"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=4208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}