FMNet: NYC Future Manufacturing Collective

在产品设计和制造中广泛使用传感器、计算机和软件工具，要求传统的制造教育为新一代的网络制造系统而发展。虽然大学将继续提供教育，为学生建立基础知识基础，但所提供的教育与行业所需技能之间日益扩大的差距需要创新的解决方案，为未来几代制造业的劳动力做好准备。纽约市未来制造集体（NYC-FMC）将在纽约市开发一个由多学科研究人员、教育工作者和利益相关者组成的网络，通过工人与日益复杂、技术驱动的环境和一系列流程的关系来探索未来的网络制造研究。NYC-FMC将推进相关技术以及这些接口所连接的底层系统、流程和组织条件，以改变和推动人们在制造业中的角色。NYC-FMC将组织各种各样的活动，包括让学生通过与主要制造业企业合作，获得工业环境的实习计划，制作一份时事通讯，以定义最先进的制造技术和新的制造生态系统，以及每年组织两次以制造业为重点的研讨会。该项目将建立一个由纽约市大学多学科教师、行业高管和技术专家、投资者、企业家、公共部门和其他相关制造业生态系统参与者组成的联盟。NYC-FMC将采用融合的方法来产生新的想法、框架和假设，以催化未来的研究、合作伙伴关系和制造业和网络物理系统的工业创新。RLab是一个由纽约大学坦顿工程学院管理的多所大学中心，该网络将依靠纽约大学和哥伦比亚大学的教师领导，以及来自纽约其他机构的广泛研究人员网络，涉及制造、计算机视觉、机器人、机器学习、虚拟和增强现实、人类行为和认知、经济学和其他相关领域。来自行业的高管和技术人员，包括与大纽约地区及其他地区有联系的大型制造业企业，以及布鲁克林海军工厂新实验室的初创公司，将提供私营部门的刺激，并帮助创造条件，推进教育和研究目标。该联盟将建立一个新的教育和劳动力培训计划框架，在研究人员、行业合作伙伴和专注于未来网络制造系统的劳动力之间建立一个学习和反馈循环。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Extensive use of sensors, computers and software tools in product design and manufacturing requires traditional manufacturing education to evolve for the new generation of cyber-manufacturing systems. While universities will continue to provide education to build a fundamental knowledge base for their students, the widening gap between the education delivered and the skills required by industry needs innovative solutions to prepare the workforce for future generations of manufacturing. The New York City Future Manufacturing Collective (NYC-FMC) will develop a network of multidisciplinary researchers, educators, and stakeholders in New York City to explore future cyber manufacturing research through the lens of the worker's relationship to an increasingly complex and technologically driven environment and set of processes. The NYC-FMC will advance related technologies as well as the underlying systems, processes, and organizational conditions to which these interfaces are connected, to change and drive the roles of people in manufacturing. NYC-FMC will organize a variety of activities, including an internship program for students to obtain exposure to industrial environments by engaging major manufacturing based corporations, producing a newsletter to define the state-of-the-art in manufacturing technologies and the new manufacturing ecosystem, and organizing two manufacturing-focused symposia each year. The program will build a coalition of multidisciplinary faculty from NYC universities, industry executives and technologists, investors, entrepreneurs, public sector and other relevant manufacturing ecosystem participants.The NYC-FMC will take a convergence approach to generate novel ideas, frameworks, and hypotheses to catalyze future research, partnerships, and industrial innovation in manufacturing and cyber-physical systems. The network convened by RLab, a multi-university center administered by New York University (NYU) Tandon School of Engineering, will rely on faculty leadership at NYU and Columbia University, as well as a broad network of researchers from other NYC institutions, in the areas of manufacturing, computer vision, robotics, machine learning, virtual and augmented reality, human behavior and cognition, economics and other relevant areas. Executives and technologists from industry, including large manufacturing concerns with a connection to the greater NYC region and beyond and startup companies in the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s New Lab, will provide stimulus from the private sector and help create conditions to advance education and research goals. This coalition will build a novel education and workforce training program framework to create a learning and feedback loop between researchers, industry partners, and the workforce focused on the future cyber-manufacturing systems.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.