Making Value: Integrating Manufacturing, Design, and Innovation to Thrive in the Changing Global Economy

This issue focuses on two particular goals. First, - to examine not just manufacturing but the broad array of activities that are inherently associated with manufacturing, including innovation and design. Second, - to focus not just on making things but on making value, since value is the quality that will underlie high-paying jobs in America's future.

Rapidly advancing technologies in areas such as biomanufacturing, robotics, smart sensors, cloud-based computing, and nanotechnology have transformed not only the factory floor but also the way products are invented and designed, putting a premium on continual innovation and highly skilled workers. A shift in manufacturing toward smaller runs and custom-designed products is favoring agile and adaptable workplaces, business models, and employees, all of which have become a specialty in the United States.

Contents
1 MAKING VALUE THROUGH INTEGRATED INNOVATION, DESIGN, MANUFACTURING, AND SERVICE
The Opportunity
Box 1-1 Spotlight on Biomanufacturing: Opportunities and Needs for Value Creation
Technology and the Transformation of Work
Box 1-2 The Past, Present, and Future of Manufacturing Work
What Is Value? And How Do We Make It?
Box 1-3 Making Value in America
Does Integration Require Colocation?
Box 1-4 Spotlight on Electronics: Linking Design and Production
2 BUILDING THE ECOSYSTEM FOR MAKING VALUE
Human Capital
Box 2-1 Creating Human Capital: Manufacturing, Design, and Innovation Education at Georgia Tech
Business Practices
Box 2-2 SRI’s Value Creation Process
Box 2-3 Different Collaborative Models for Innovation in Large and Small Companies
Government Services
Infrastructure
Leapfrogging to the Next Generation
Box 2-4 Manufacturing for Sustainability
APPENDIXES
A Workshop Agenda
B Biographical Information