Manufacturing Innovation Center at Rensselaer

Smart Manufacturing Coalition-led Project Wins DOE Clean Energy Manufacturing Contract

SMLC Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition
The Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition (SMLC) today announced that it won a 2013 Clean Energy Manufacturing contract to start developing the nation’s first open smart manufacturing technology platform for collaborative industrial networked information applications. The innovative $10 million project, led by the SMLC, will receive $7.8 million in funding from the U.S. Dept. of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Program.

The overall objectives of the initial SMLC project are to design and demonstrate this common platform that enables data modeling and simulation technologies to actively manage energy use in conjunction with plant production systems. The platform will show how real-time management of energy use as a key driver in business decisions can be applied across many small, medium and large U.S. manufacturing companies.

The Center for Automation Technologies and Systems at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is a member of the SMLC.

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