UConn joins national smart manufacturing initiative

Mansfield, Connecticut - UConn has been named part of a new national coalition to coordinate research and development in smart manufacturing and energy efficiency, and will play a leading role in those efforts in Connecticut.

The coalition, known as the Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute, has been awarded $70 million from the U.S. Department of Energy that will be matched by private investments and is part of the administration’s effort to double U.S. energy efficiency by 2030.

The institute brings together nearly 200 partners from academia, industry, and non-profits to advance the development of smart sensors and digital process controls, and shift these technologies to manufacturers across the country. These emerging technologies can radically improve the efficiency of manufacturers, and the UConn team will share the advances with local companies.

“Our aim is to enable Connecticut businesses to have access to these technologies, and the training and resources necessary to deploy them,” says George Bollas, director of the United Technologies Corporation Institute for Advanced Systems Engineering.

UConn’s Institute for Advanced Systems Engineering, a member of Tech Park, will lead the activities of the Smart Manufacturing Institute in Connecticut, along with the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technologies and the United Technologies Research Center.

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Source: UConn Today