UMass Amherst hosts the Nextflex workshop "CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN PRINT AND ROLL-TO-ROLL MANUFACTURING" (10/16/2018)
WORKSHOP: SCALABLE MANUFACTURING METHODS FOR FLEXIBLE HYBRID ELECTRONICS
"CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN PRINT AND ROLL-TO-ROLL MANUFACTURING"
- Date: October 16-18, 2018
- Location: UMass Amherst Life Science Laboratories, Amherst, MA
The following confirmed speakers and panelists will focus on emerging capabilities in print and roll-to-roll manufacturing and look at new devices and application-specific manufacturing requirements
- Ben Leever, Air Force Research Laboratory
- John Berg, Carpe Diem
- Milan Raj, Epicore
- Jason Marsh, NextFlex
- Scott Miller, NextFlex
- Stan Farnsworth, NovaCentrix
- Miko Cakmak, Purdue University
- Jeff Morse, UMass Amherst
- Jim Watkins, UMass Amherst
- Dan Frisbee, University of Minnesota
- Devin MacKenzie, University of Washington
- Sameh Dardona, UTRC
In addition, processes that benefit from continuous coating, patterning and integration strategies will be discussed, along with challenges and opportunities associated with future process-flows for scaled-up manufacturing.
Actionable Tasks and Upcoming Project Calls
The workshop concludes with facilitated breakout discussions based on the topics below that will generate actionable tasks giving attendees a chance to influence upcoming funded project calls.
- FHE Applications: Wearable and Human Health Monitoring
- FHE Applications: IoT and Asset Monitoring
- Integration and Process Scale-up