(New Britain Herald, 10/7/19) EAST HARTFORD – Connecticut Dream It. Do It. hosted over 100 middle school students for a Manufacturing Mania event on Friday at the Goodwin College Business and Manufacturing Center. The goal was to give students a hands-on positive look at the manufacturing industry and help them…
Young Manufacturers Academy graduates again awarded
This year’s 2019 Small Manufacturers Association (SMA) Student of the Year was Krystal Santiago, a past participant in the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology’s (CCAT) Young Manufacturers Academy (YMA) program. This marks the second year in a row that the SMA Student of the Year award winner was a YMA…
CCAT celebrates Manufacturing Innovation Day
On Tuesday, CCAT joined Connecticut manufacturers and innovators at the State Capitol building to celebrate Manufacturing Innovation Day, hosted by CBIA. The event kicked off with a presentation from CBIA President & CEO Joe Brennan, Chair of the CBIA Board of Directors and President of Pegasus Manufacturing Chris DiPentima and…
South Windsor High School tours the AMC
A group of students from South Windsor High School in grades 9-12 toured CCAT’s Advanced Manufacturing Center yesterday. The students all shared an interest in manufacturing and were currently either a member of the school’s First Robotics team or enrolled in an engineering design course or an into to manufacturing…
Six students complete hands on, on the job training at CCAT’s AMC
Six students apart of the Knowledge 2 Careers Academy Program completed 18-hour hands on training at CCAT’s Advanced Manufacturing Center and graduated the program last week. The Knowledge 2 Careers Program was established by the KRA Corporation through Capital Workforce Partners (CWP) in partnership with the Connecticut Center for Advanced…
CPTV to showcase CCAT’s workforce development efforts
Connecticut Public Television’s (CPTV) film crew assembled yesterday morning at CCAT’s Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC) for a new series called “Life Lessons: New Collar Careers.” The series centers around pathways to success in advanced manufacturing as students seek meaningful career opportunities in the field and employers try to build their…
Cyber Secure Manufacturing Is Smart Manufacturing
(ITAC, 12/13/18) It’s probably not a bad idea for smaller and mid-sized manufacturers (SMMs) to adopt an “us against them” attitude as they become aware of the prevalence of cyber-attacks in the digital age of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Industry 4.0. The sources and agents of cyber-attacks…
Australia’s cyber security industry faces 18,000 skills shortage
(Australia Financial Review, 11/28/18) Australia needs to train 18,000 more people by 2026 to fight the cyber security wars, a new report has warned and we are going to fall far short. The cyber security industry is on track to triple in size to $6 billion, driven by a jump in…
Manufacturing in the next industrial age
(Economia, 11/26/18) Change has become a survival imperative, with innovation vital to future-proofing manufacturing businesses. In BDO’s recent survey on global risk, over 80% of business leaders reported that they were developing a strategy for future-proofing based on innovation, with the aim of ensuring that their organisation has a sustainable…
Unlocking the value of digital transformation, from the infrastructure upwards
(Tech Wire Asia, 11/2018) Articles in the business technology press are fond of the phrase ‘digital transformation’, but the phrase is as broad and nebulous today as ‘digital technology’. Transforming your organization or company by use of technology sums up the process of digital transformation, but the means by which…