Workshop: Advanced Manufacturing for Smart Goods; Vancouver, Washington; May 19-20, 2015

该奖项支持一个研讨会，以确定新兴智能产品行业的先进制造研究需求，帮助美国制造商更快地将智能产品推向市场。2012年，美国信息技术产业，从半导体到电信和其他信息服务，为美国国内生产总值贡献了超过1.7万亿美元。到2017年，美国大约一半的信息技术设备支出预计将用于智能计算，因为传感器、执行器、无线通信和低功耗计算将嵌入到被称为“智能商品”的日常物品中，即物联网。未来的智能计算需求正在挑战半导体制造业的传统智慧，使美国信息技术产业容易受到外国投资的影响，这些投资旨在超越美国公司目前在硅微电子领域的优势。研讨会的主要目标是：(1)研究和回顾新兴智能商品行业的最新制造材料和工艺技术；(2)收集智能商品行业视角下“大数据”价值流上游的先进制造研究需求、差距和挑战；(3)为智能商品行业内的制造技术进步制定下一步建议。该研讨会将在俄勒冈州波特兰-华盛顿州温哥华大都会区举行，该地区也被称为“硅森林”，拥有近900家半导体和电子公司。研讨会将汇集学术和国家实验室观众，邀请行业演讲者和小组成员，以确定新兴智能商品行业的先进制造研究需求。由州、大学和联邦实验室成员组成的组织委员会将与行业顾问团队合作，从行业中选择15-20名杰出成员进行演讲并组成小组。会议将包括演讲和小组讨论，讨论许多智能产品的未来计算需求，包括在复杂的三维表面上集成低功耗计算与新型传感器和小型电源。讨论的技术包括喷墨印刷，近单分散功能纳米材料的缩放，以及粒子薄膜的光子烧结成多功能薄膜和器件。研讨会结束后，组委会将编写一份报告，概述智能产品先进制造研究的主要挑战和机遇，并概述下一步如何围绕共同的竞争前研究议程协调大学和行业利益。报告内容将通过讲习班网站和适当的期刊传播。

This award supports a workshop to identify advanced manufacturing research needs for the emerging Smart Goods industry to help U.S. manufacturers more quickly advance Smart Goods into the marketplace. In 2012, the U.S. information technology industry, from semiconductors to telecommunications and other information services, contributed over $1.7 trillion to U.S. gross domestic product. By 2017, about one half of spending on information technology equipment in the U.S. is projected to be in smart computing as sensors, actuators, wireless communications, and low-power computation become embedded in everyday objects called "Smart Goods", i.e., the Internet of Things. Future smart computing requirements are challenging conventional wisdom in semiconductor manufacturing making the U.S. information technology industry vulnerable to foreign investments aimed to leapfrog current advantages held by U.S. firms in silicon microelectronics. The main objectives of the workshop are to: (1) examine and review the state-of-the-art in manufacturing materials and process technologies for the emerging Smart Goods industry; (2) gather the Smart Goods industry perspective of the advanced manufacturing research needs, gaps and challenges upstream of the "big data" value stream; and (3) formulate recommendations for the next steps to advance manufacturing technologies within the Smart Goods industry. The workshop will be held in the Portland, Oregon-Vancouver, Washington metropolitan area, also known as the Silicon Forest, containing almost 900 semiconductor and electronics companies. The workshop will bring together an academic and national laboratory audience with invited industry speakers and panelists to identify advanced manufacturing research needs for the emerging Smart Goods industry. An organizing committee consisting of state, university and federal laboratory members will work with an industry advisory team to select 15-20 distinguished members from industry to deliver presentations and populate panels. Sessions will involve both presentations and panels discussing future computing requirements for many Smart Goods including the integration of low-power computation with new sensors and small power sources on complex three-dimensional surfaces. Technologies to be discussed include inkjet printing, the scaling of near monodispersed functional nanomaterials, and the photonic sintering of particle films into multifunctional films and devices. The organizing committee will compile a report after the workshop recapping the key challenges and opportunities in advanced manufacturing research for Smart Goods, and outlining the next steps for aligning universities and industry interests around a common pre-competitive research agenda. The report contents will be disseminated through the workshop website and an appropriate journal.