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Manufacturing faces a significant skilled labor shortage, which is expected to reach 3.5 million unfilled advanced manufacturing job openings by 2025.
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Over the past 50 years, the manufacturing industry has undergone a complete transformation with the introduction of automation and industrial robotics.
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Julio Aleman, a Bioengineering PhD student needed two different microwell array system with individual wells that would support injection moulding of hydrogels and serve as “master moulds”
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Manufacturing faces a significant skilled labor shortage, which is expected to reach 3.5 million unfilled advanced manufacturing job openings by 2025.
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Over the past 50 years, the manufacturing industry has undergone a complete transformation with the introduction of automation and industrial robotics.
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