Advanced manufacturing

Advanced manufacturing is the use of innovative technology to improve products or processes with modern technology. Advanced manufacturing industries 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.

World Class Manufacturing (WCM) integrates the latest-generation machinery with process/work systems.

Advanced manufacturing centers on improving the performance of the US industry through the innovative application of technologies, processes, and methods. A survey done in 2010 by the Science and Technology Policy Institute offered four definitions of advanced manufacturing, including: "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."

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