IMTI—Ten Years in Pursuit of a Dream

It seems like only yesterday that DoD, DoC, DoE, NSF, and NASA representatives met with industry in Washington, DC and decided that a new organization was needed. The mission of that organization was to support the nation’s manufacturing infrastructure, and the foundation of the decision was that we lacked a neutral broker with no agenda except a passion for the maintenance of a vision for manufacturing success. From that beginning, IMTI launched its pursuit of the dream – to support the resurgence in the nation’s manufacturing sector. (More...)

IMTI’s Year in review—2009 was a great year!

IMTI was greatly blessed in 2009!  We were fortunate to work for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Missile Defense Agency, and the Defense Logistics Agency in providing strategic support including studies, strategic investment plans, and technology roadmaps. In these roles, we were able to work with all of the armed services, other government agencies, industry, the national research community, and academia. (More...)

Ten Imperatives for Model-Based Enterprise

The idea of achieving a model-based enterprise is catching on like a wildfire. Companies are becoming more aware that being fast to market at low cost and rapid response to requirements is essential for success, whether the customer is the government, the college student, or “Joe the plumber”. We are seeing early implementations with dramatic impacts. Impacts, like a ten-fold reduction in response time from requirements to complete manufacturing plans and a factor of five times reduction in the cost and time of managing change, are being documented. Forty to sixty percent total impact in cost and time of all engineering functions, and reductions in manufacturing costs due to improved processes and process control are being realized. (More...)

Radical Innovation in Design and Manufacturing

The Department of Defense and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration hosted a national leadership forum on October 27 and 28, 2009. The purpose of the forum was to evaluate best practices in putting innovation to work and to seek methods that provide a clear understanding of ways to accelerate the incorporation of the process of innovation in producing new and exciting products – quickly and affordably.  (More...)

Meet Charlie Neal, IMTI Senior Manufacturing Strategist

Charlie Neal is the project manager for IMTI’s work with DoD Power Sources. He has supported the development of the Power Sources Roadmap for the Power Sources Technical Working Group (PSTWG) and more specific documents on Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Pathways for the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). He has led our work on Incentives and on Orthotics & Prosthetics. He also serves as a facilitator for most of IMTI’s workshops with an emphasis on environmental issues and sustainability. (More...)

Power Sources Technology Roadmaps

Initiated from the OSD ManTech program through the Joint Defense Manufacturing Technology Panel (JDMTP) and the DoD Power Sources Technical Working Group (PSTWG), the work in batteries and fuel cells – more generally power sources – started in 2004 with a workshop at SCRA in Charleston, SC. Since that time, IMTI has worked in a support role to the PSTWG on batteries and fuel cells and an additional roadmap for fuel cells and hydrogen pathways for the DLA. (More...)

InRAD unveils InSpire at the Defense Manufacturing Conference 2009 in Orlando

In the opening section of this newsletter we talked about the 1, 2, 3 strategy. To pursue the second strategy, an unprecedented understanding of what is being done, IMTI created a subsidiary company, InRAD, LLC, which has pursued the development of a knowledge discovery system that aligns activities, projects, publications . . . to the needs of the individual. The early version of that system was called the Automated Knowledge Discovery System. It now has a completely new look and feel, and sports a new name. (More...)

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