Advanced manufacturing

Advanced manufacturing is the use of innovative technology to improve products or processes. Advanced manufacturing is the use of innovative technology to improve products or processes. One of the most widely used definitions of advanced manufacturing involves the use of technology to improve products and/or processes, with the relevant technology being described as 'advanced,' 'innovative,' or 'cutting edge.' For example, one organization defines advanced manufacturing as industries that 'increasingly integrate new innovative technologies in both products and processes. The rate of technology adoption and the ability to use that technology to remain competitive and add value to define the advanced manufacturing sector.' Another author defined World Class Foundry (read manufacturing) as:'A World Class Manufacturing (WCM) is one which integrates the latest-gen machinery with (process/ work) systems to facilitate 'manufacturing'- based business development governed around manufactured products only, duly based over a high accent on Product Substitution or New Product Development.' 'Advanced manufacturing centers upon improving the performance of US industry through the innovative application of technologies, processes and methods to product design and production.' Finally, a recent survey of advanced manufacturing definitions by the White House and states: 'A concise definition of advanced manufacturing offered by some is manufacturing that entails the rapid transfer of science and technology (S&T) into manufacturing products and processes.' (PCAST, April 2010.)Advanced manufacturing makes things that make life easier.