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Students to Turn Robots into Blacksmiths in New Manufacturing Competition



Lightweight Innovations For Tomorrow (LIFT) and the Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence (CDME) at Ohio State University announced a new competition for students from around the country merging the ancient skills of the blacksmith with the digital age of robotics to create new material forming capabilities called "Robotic Blacksmithing."

Launching this fall and running through the 2016-17 school year, the LIFT Prize in Robotic Blacksmithing introduces digital or robotic blacksmithing technology to students and challenges them to make arbitrary, numerically-described objects by re-shaping materials through plastic deformation and incremental forming processes.

For this competition, using robotics, students will be asked to form three useful items such as a horseshoe, goblet and an ultralight-weight truss out of materials of increasing difficulty and importance. The first and simplest competition will use clay as the competition material. Later phases will use soft and hardened metals for respective focus materials.

"Through this competition, LIFT is working to usher in robotic blacksmithing as the next wave of manufacturing technology, following on the heels of the first two revolutions in digital manufacturing we have seen change our world: computer numeric control (CNC), in which cutting tools precisely remove metal to form complex shapes; and additive manufacturing and 3-D printers, which add successive volumes of material by computer control to create complicated solid components," said a LIFT Spokesperson.

"This competition will bring these students to the cutting edge of manufacturing technology and prepare the industry for the next big change in technology," said Glenn Daehn, the competition's Technical Director. "By engaging students through competition, we are encouraging them to develop the skills they need to become the innovators and leaders the manufacturing industry needs to thrive in the future."

"The manufacturing industry is changing rapidly and we need to ensure the workforce of the future has the skills and is confident in using new lightweighting technologies and processes," said Emily Stover DeRocco, Director of Education and Workforce Development, LIFT. "This competition will put the latest technology in the hands of students to both provide them the skills they need and encourage them to consider manufacturing as a career in the future."

Because robotic blacksmithing is a new manufacturing process without specific defined system requirements, the competition is "open" meaning only the materials used and desired output is defined, not the process used to achieve it, fostering innovation.

Student teams can register for the competition and work through March 2017. The competition is open to students from high school, community college, career and technical colleges, and colleges and universities. Judging by industry experts, teachers and other leaders will be done in April 2017, with winning teams announced by the end of April.

To help support the competition and invest in the future of manufacturing, LIFT encourages local manufacturers to both sponsor and mentor teams in their communities. "So many of the communities in the LIFT region of Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee rely on local manufacturers as the backbone of their economies," said DeRocco. "To continue these synergies, we are encouraging those companies to help invest in the future by supporting competition teams in their schools."

For more information contact:

For more information, please visit www.roboticblacksmithing.com. Complete official rules for the competition will be posted this fall.

Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence (CDME) at Ohio State University

1314 Kinnear Rd

Columbus, OH 43212

614-292-6888

cdme@osu.edu

www.cdme.osu.edu

Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow (LIFT)

1400 Rosa Parks Boulevard

Detroit, MI 48216

313-309-9003

www.lift.technology.com

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