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Energy.gov presents…
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The Industrial Assessment Center program is helping small and medium manufacturers boost their efficiency and save energy. It pairs companies with universities as students perform energy assessments and provide recommendations to improve their facilities.
Mark Johnson: Director, Advanced Manufacturing Office
Energy is a major cost driver to all manufacturers, so minimizing that cost makes it so that they have greater resources so they can wind up committing to growth of their business overall, creating more opportunities for new products, serving new customers, and creating new jobs.
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Since 1976, more than 17,000 U.S companies and 4,000 students have benefited from this program. It saves manufacturers millions and also trains the next generation workforce.
David Friedman: Acting Assistant Secretary
We have to train that whole next generation of engineers in the world of advanced manufacturing because that is the future of manufacturing in the United States and around the world and we need to make sure that we lead the way.
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28 new universities and 6 satellite center are now available to help small business manufacturers.
Mark Johnson:
It’s absolutely about partnerships and the technology assistance programs are about forming these partnerships, bringing people together so you wind up combining technology and talent together so that we wind up having success in the 21st century.
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The program is also expanding its focus to include cybersecurity, smart manufacturing, water usage, and energy management systems.
David Friedman:
They are the people who are going to turn what we call today "advanced manufacturing" into just "manufacturing." They need to get as interdisciplinary of an education as possible to make sure that they’ve got the broad engineering, programing and economic skills they need to make advanced manufacturing just American manufacturing.
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