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COLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS TO NEXT GENERATION MANUFACTURING

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“This new facility will enable us to enhance the service we provide to our customers in the area, and we will benefit from the proximity to Purdue by both research and the talent pool the university provides."

Edmund Schweitzer III
, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories
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7,000'

runway accessible through Purdue University Airport

#3 ranked

undergraduate Industrial Engineering program in the U.S. (U.S. News & World Report, 2020)

1 HOUR

drive time from Indianapolis

MACH 8

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#1 ranked

small market for advanced manufacturing (The Boyd Co. 2015)

2 HOUR

drive time from Chicago
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Advanced Manufacturing Facilities and Programs

INDIANA MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE

The Indiana Manufacturing Institute (IMI) is Purdue’s headquarters as part of a $259 million U.S. Department of Energy initiative called the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation. The University of Tennessee in Knoxville is the lead institution in the collaboration that includes public and private agencies in Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee and Colorado.

BIRCK NANOTECHNOLOGY CENTER

Researchers and scientists from six academic colleges working in Birck Nanotechnology Center are at the forefront of nanoelectronics, photonics, energy, micro electromechanical systems, nanobio technology and nanomanufacturing. These world-class innovators are helping develop a local high tech ecosystem in collaboration with Discovery Park District at Purdue and Wabash Heartland Innovation Network (WHIN) community internet of things (IoT) testbeds.

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Find a competitive edge in advanced manufacturing. Leasing opportunities are now available in Discovery Park District at Purdue.

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Corporate Partnerships

Rolls-Royce

For more than 100 years, Rolls-Royce and its predecessor companies have been engineering, designing and manufacturing advanced technology in the city of Indianapolis. In Discovery Park District at Purdue, Rolls-Royce is designing, developing and testing jet engine components, collaborating with Purdue researchers through corporate partnerships, recruiting future talent of Purdue student interns and graduates and assembling and testing electronic engine controllers.

Saab

Saab’s facility in Discovery Park District at Purdue serves the global market with world-leading products, services and solutions within military defense and civil security. Saab has operations and employees on all continents around the world. Through innovative, collaborative and pragmatic thinking, Saab develops, adopts and improves new technology to meet customers’ changing needs. Saab's facility in Discovery Park District at Purdue will support production of the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation T-7A jet trainer.

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories

SEL invents, designs and builds digital products and systems that protect power grids around the world. This technology prevents blackouts and enables customers to improve power system reliability and safety at a reduced cost. A 100 percent employee-owned company headquartered in Pullman, Washington, SEL has manufactured products in the United States since 1984 and now serves customers worldwide. The company’s mission is to make electric power safer, more reliable and more economical.

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Recent Manufacturing Research

PURDUE-AFFILIATED POLY GROUP PARTNERS FOR NEW ANTIMICROBIAL MATERIAL OPTIONS

Royer Corp. and Poly Group LLC finalized an exclusive partnership in late June that results in the manufacture of antimicrobial custom plastic injection molded parts in Madison, Indiana. Nouvex antimicrobial technology was discovered at Purdue University by a group led by Jeffrey Youngblood, a professor in Purdue’s School of Materials Engineering. Poly Group LLC holds an exclusive, worldwide license to the IP covering Nouvex, which includes a granted U.S. patent.

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SOFTWARE SOLUTION PREDICTS COSTS FOR MANUFACTURERS

New software designed to help manufacturers better predict and adjust costs may assist organizers one day with huge events such as the Olympic Games. Innovators at the Indiana Next Generation Manufacturing Competitiveness Center, or IN-MaC, created software to help manufacturers better predict overall costs and the costs associated with layout alternatives and adjustments to their manufacturing processes.

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