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Beating the heat with CCAM intern and VCU Engineering students’ robotic gripper

Congratulations to Logan Schorr CCAM – Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing Robotics intern & Virginia Commonwealth University – College of Engineering Ph.D. student for this feature. Schorr says, “My experience in both fields of additive and robotics that I was able to get from CCAM made this project a fantastic opportunity. I am fortunate to continue my development through…

RACER Machinery International Joins CCAM

RACER Machinery International Joins CCAM October 14, 2022, Disputanta, VA – The Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM) is pleased to announce Racer Machinery International Inc (RMI) has joined its consortium. CCAM is where the best of industry, academia, and government come together to solve advanced manufacturing challenges. Located in Ontario Canada, RMI manufactures…

Richmond-Petersburg Region, Collaborating as the Alliance for Building Better Medicine, Secures $111 Million Over Three Months for U.S. Based Manufacturing of Essential Medicine

CCAM is proud to be a partner of the Alliance for Building Better Medicine. CCAM has partnered with Activation Capital on two important projects for the recently awarded Build Back Better Region Challenge grant; they include: Scale-up Development Center Project Joint Engineering Degree Project This picture represents the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Governor Glenn Youngkin’s proclamation…

How CCAM Advances the Manufacturing Field

Harnessing the power of world-class talent, technology and training, we:

PERFECT PRODUCTION METHODS

MAKE COMPANIES MORE COMPETITIVE

PREPARE A QUALIFIED MANUFACTURING WORKFORCE

GROW OUR
ECONOMY

Our members are the reason we do what we do.

They are industry leaders - from aerospace to automotive to shipbuilding, and from milling to metalworking to industrial controls. And they represent some of the top minds in academia and government out of our nation’s premiere resarch universities and agencies.

Together with our talented and dedicated CCAM research staff, CCAM members pursue directed and core research to build higher quality products and make production of their goods more affordable and faster than ever before.

“Through our membership with CCAM, we gain access to high-quality research, advanced manufacturing processes, technical expertise, and above all, a collaborative environment where we can work with our industry and university partners to support our current and future products."

Amanda Simpson
Vice President, Research & Technology
Airbus Americas

Advanced manufacturing is an opportunity to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. To realize that goal, we will need both public and private organizations’ commitment to apprenticeship programs such as CCAM to develop the much-needed skilled workforce. This is the inflection point — we cannot blink.”

Kelly Marchese
Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP

CCAM ManuFACTS

Cost to build CCAM in 2011

Advanced manufacturing research completed in 2022

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