GTMI connects researchers, companies, and government partners to accelerate innovation in advanced manufacturing, supply chain systems, and digital transformation. GTMI offers access to world class expertise, facilities, and high bay pilot environments that help industry partners test, validate, and commercialize new technologies.
Additive Manufacturing
- Design for Manufacturing
- Process Modeling and Planning
- Rapid Materials Screening
- Secure Automation
- Secure Supply Chain Design
- Precision Machining
- Hybrid Manufacturing
- Robotic Welding
- Next-Generation Systems
- In-Situ Monitoring
- Sensing and Metrology
Advanced Manufacturing Pilot Facility
- Additive and Hybrid
- Machining
- Synthesis and Recycling
- Elemental Analysis
- Materials Properties Analysis
- Metrology
- Microscopy
- X-ray
- Factory Architectures
- Machine communication
- Cloud computing
- Edge devices
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence
- Predictive maintenance
- Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)
- Cybersecurity
Biomanufacturing
Medical Applications
- Biomanufacturing Supply Chain Simulation Program and Decision Support System
- Bio-sensors for Closed-Loop Control of Biomanufacturing Processes
Non-medical Applications
- Bio-sensors for Control of Non-Medical Biomanufacturing Processes
- Food Manufacturing
- Bioindustrial Manufacturing
Flexible Automation
- Industrial robotics for automation of precision manufacturing processes
- Data-driven methods for modeling various aspects of industrial robot behavior
- Robotic manufacturing capability that integrates additive, subtractive, and other processes into a hybrid flexible manufacturing system
- Robotics for biomanufacturing applications
Internet of Things for Manufacturing and Factory Information Systems
- Factory Architectures
- Machine Communication
- Cloud Computing
- Edge Devices
- Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
- Predictive Maintenance
- Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
- Cybersecurity
Manufacturing Enterprise Innovation
- Developing and advocates concurrent maturations of technology, manufacturing, business case and ecosystem innovations, i.e., TRL, MRL, BcRL and EcRL
- Working closely with regional and national partners in assisting companies of all sizes to be globally competitive through rapid and selective adoption of technology and business practices
Manufacturing Supply Chain and Logistics
Provides global leadership for interdisciplinary research and education in the application of scientific principles to frame and optimize the design and management of supply chains and logistic systems; the integration of supply chain and logistic strategy, infrastructure, processes, and technology; and to conceptualize and roadmap pathways toward next-generation supply chain and logistics ecosystems.
Materials and Advanced Material Development/Center for Composite and Hybrid Materials Manufacturing
- Metals
- Polymers
- Ceramics
- Composites
Precision Machining
- Modeling and simulation of machining processes
- Digital manufacturing/IoT/ML approaches
- Sensors for process monitoring and control
- Hybrid machining processes for difficult-to-cut materials
- Micro machining
- Hybrid additive and subtractive processes
- Surface modification and post-processing of 3D printed metal parts
- Contact and non-contact metrology