WORKFORCE PIPELINE A MONTHLY FEATURE ABOUT TRAINING, EDUCATION & WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT w Visionaries Wanted: MTConnect Student Challenge T
he deadline is fast approaching for the MTConnect Student Challenge. The challenge offers $33,000 in prizes to promote the possibilities that the open-source XML-based communication protocol offers to manufacturers. The current MTConnect Student Challenge opened in June and has two separate competitions—one focused on idea creation and the other on application development: • The Idea Creation contest requires students to inter- view manufacturers to identify their challenges and create conceptual solutions. The deadline for submis- sions is Dec. 15. More details are available at www.
challenge.gov/challenge/mtconnectstudentideas.
• The Application Development contest requires stu- dents to develop an app that demonstrates innovation and the use of manufacturing intelligence break- throughs. The deadline for submissions is Jan. 31, 2016. More details are available at
www.challenge. gov/challenge/mtconnectstudentapps. Students who are enrolled in a degreed program at an institution of higher education are eligible to participate.
MTConnect Student Challenge is an ideal competition to bring forth student-led innovation for real-world manufactur- ing solutions. We feel that students have the kind of creative thinking and ideas that are critical to advancing our industry, and we look forward to finding the next visionaries who can generate new approaches to digital manufacturing.”
MTConnect — The History MTConnect is an outgrowth of AMT’s research, which started at the beginning of the millennium, into how the In- ternet could be integrated into manufacturing operations and improve the competitiveness of US manufacturers. At the annual meeting for AMT in 2006, David Edstrom of
Sun Microsystems and Dr. David Patterson, Professor of Com- puter Science at the University of California, Berkeley, spoke about the possibilities and the need for an open communication standard to connect machines and equipment to each other. Two years later, in 2008, AMT, the University of California/ Berkeley and Georgia Tech, along with manufacturing tech- nology providers and users, launched an open communica-
“We feel that students have the kind of creative thinking and ideas that are critical to advancing our industry, and we look forward to finding the next visionaries who can generate new approaches to digital manufacturing.”
Winners are eligible to receive a variety of awards. The idea contest offers five prizes totaling $10,500, including a $5,000 prize for first place. The app development challenge offers prizes totaling $22,500. The first place award recipient will receive $10,000, with second place receiving $7,500, and $5,000 for third place. “Manufacturers in all industries are looking to leverage the opportunities offered by big data and the Industrial In- ternet of Things,” Douglas K. Woods, President of the MT- Connect Institute and President of AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology, said in a statement. “The
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tions standard called MTConnect. The read-only data tool allows connectivity and interoperability between all types of machines on the factory floor. That year, at the International Machine Technology Show (IMTS), AMT demonstrated the potential for the technology, showing how it enabled users to pull data from machines scattered throughout the show and use the data in real time.
The Student Competition
The Department of Defense selected the Army’s Benét Laboratories—a research, development and engineering
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