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CAMLS in the News!
 

Article appears in the  San Antonio Business Journal.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011.

 

Article appears in UTSA Today.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011.

 

"UTSA engineers offer business-boosting expertise with advanced manufacturing center"

Article appears in UTSA Today.

Monday, October 24, 2011.

 

"Professor F. Frank Chen named Society of Manufacturing Engineers Fellow"

Article appears in UTSA Today.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011.

 

"UTSA manufacturing center helps businesses"

Article appears in UTSA Today.

Friday, April 24, 2009.

 

"Manufacturing center helping local companies ‘lean’ out recession"

Article appears in the San Antonio Business Journal.

Friday, April 10, 2009.

 

"UTSA manufacturing center awarded $375,000"

UTSA Press Release appearing in EurekAlert!

Wednesday, December 5, 2007.

 

"UTSA new center for manufacturing awarded $500,000"

UTSA Press Release appearing in EurekAlert!

Monday, November 12, 2007.

"UTSA awarded defense grant in manufacturing-engineering research"

Article appears in the San Antonio Business Journal.

Monday, November 12, 2007.

The Center for Advanced Manufacturing & Lean Systems has recently received two major federal grants. These prestigious awards total $874,338. The funds will be used to equip both the Flexible Manufacturing and Lean Systems (FMLS) lab and the Manufacturing Systems and Automation (MSA) lab with state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment, software, and accessories.

 

“Instrumentation for Research and Education in Advanced Manufacturing and Enterprise Systems - PI: Dr. Frank Chen (Co-PI: Dr. Can Saygin), $499,856, Army Research Office and Air Force Office of Scientific Research – FY 2007 DoD Infrastructure Support Program, ARO BAA:W911NF-07-R-0002, Proposal No. 52711-RT-ISP, 09/2007-08/2008.

 

“MRI: Acquisition of An Automated Assembly System and RFID Equipment for Research and Education in Advanced manufacturing – PI: Dr. Can Saygin (Co-PI: Dr. Frank Chen), $374,482, National Science Foundation (NSF) CMMI-MRI Program (NSF Award No.: 0722923), 08/01/2007 - 07/31/2010. 

Presentations

 

"Lean Enterprise Transformation: The imperative for industrial change"

Presented by Dr. Cory R. A. Hallam

December 5, 2007

 

"Cyber-enabled Lean Manufacturing"

Presented by Dr. Hung-da Wan

March 5, 2008

Articles on Lean and the Economy

 

"Lean Factories Find It Hard to Cut Jobs Even in a Slump"

Article Appears in The Wall Street Journal

By Timothy Aeppel and Justin Lahart

March 9, 2009

 

Noting in a front-page story that a "plant, owned by Cleveland-based Parker Hannifin Corp., has become so lean over the past decade that many assembly lines run with only a handful of highly trained workers," the Wall Street Journal (3/9, A1, Aeppel, Lahart) reports that "while mass layoffs have driven the U.S. unemployment rate to its highest in 26 years, Parker and other companies like it are responding to the slump in more surgical ways, mainly by cutting hours and shedding temporary workers." The Journal notes that, "to varying degrees, this is happening at thousands of other large and small factories across the U.S." Such "selective cuts help explain a curiosity of this recession." While "the manufacturing sector is suffering a sharp contraction and has had to slash many jobs," fewer positions have been cut "than would be expected given the depth of the slump."

CAMLS Seminar Series

 

Spring 2008

Fall 2007

 

 

 

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