Michigan’s Automation Alley formed Project DIAMOnD to address the urgent need to move companies into the digital manufacturing age of Industry 4.0 as quickly as possible and improve the region’s manufacturing agility and response to future disruptions.

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Automation Alley Michigan-based Automation Alley , a World Economic Forum Advanced Manufacturing Hub and Industry 4.0 knowledge center, has received the first wave of 3D printers for its Project DIAMOnD initiative. Markforged , a builder of metal and carbon-fiber additive manufacturing platforms, supplied the printers. Project DIAMOnD (Distributed, Independent, Agile, Manufacturing On-Demand) is dedicated to improving manufacturers’ agility and resiliency by helping them scale up their Industry 4.0 activity. More than 200 manufacturers have already received their printers and are ready to print PPE when called upon to do so. In the meantime, they can also use the printers for printing parts critical to serving and growing their manufacturing operations. The aim of the project is to enable small and mid-sized Michigan manufacturers to print PPE, filling a critical gap in the medical supply chain during the continued fight against COVID-19. Each individual printer connects to a centralized, blockchain-enabled cloud operated by Automation Alley. The project is poised to become the world’s […]

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