Digital Lab for Manufacturing requests research proposals

Larry Howard waited patiently at his booth for questions from the 200 people who attended a daylong workshop hosted by the Digital Lab for Manufacturing.

The event in Chicago was packed with information about a Department of Defense-funded project that aims to help manufacturers make virtual prototypes so precise that they would eliminate the need for physical ones. That project is being folded into the Digital Lab for Manufacturing, which is offering $9 million in funding to take that technology to market.

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