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Association, Community Partners Cite Uncertainty Over Length and Extent of Coronavirus Pandemic

SME, an organization that connects manufacturing professionals, academia and communities from all disciplines, today announced its 2020 International Honor Award winners.

SME and Rapid News Publications’ RAPID + TCT 2020 event will assemble the additive manufacturing/3D printing industry’s best thinkers, innovators and doers April 20-23 in Anaheim, California.

Pratt & Whitney, Allendale Machinery Systems/Haas Factory Outlet, and Lloyd’z Motor Workz have partnered with the SME Education Foundation to make available education opportunities for students of Pine Bush High School in Pine Bush, New York.

SME‘s AeroDef Manufacturing 2020 conference and exhibition will bring together the aerospace and defense industry’s brightest, most strategic minds March 16-19 in Fort Worth, Texas, to discuss crucial industry volume production issues, transformative manufacturing processes and critical cybersecurity issues.

SME and the TCT Group, the producers of RAPID+TCT, North America’s largest and most influential additive manufacturing event, announced today an exclusive dinner for investors at RAPID + TCT 2020, conducted by Wohlers Associates, Inc.

The 2020 SME Education Foundation Board of Directors have taken office. The governing body of the Foundation, the board is comprised of leaders from industry and academia.

SME celebrates the accomplishments of 20 dynamic women leaders who are working to expand the rapidly growing aerospace and defense smart manufacturing market globally.

The grant will support development of relevant, manufacturing-focused training to produce military systems and components.

From June 2-4, the Smart Manufacturing Experience will provide manufacturers an opportunity to engage with the most advanced smart manufacturing technologies that they can deploy quickly to boost productivity, increase sales, improve efficiency, reduce costs and keep up with increasingly sophisticated competition.