Advanced Manufacturing Center

01/31/2025

We have a great partnership with the Roux Institute. Let us know how we can help you with Advanced Manufacturing.

Now is the time for Maine manufacturers to gain a competitive advantage by adopting smart manufacturing, says Jack Lesko, director of engineering research at Northeastern University's Roux Institute. Smart manufacturing, also referred to as Industry 4.0, builds manufacturing resilience by helping companies respond to regional and global needs based on real-time data.

Lesko is working with a consortium of organizations from across Maine to bring smart manufacturing to Maine, including the Advanced Manufacturing Center at the University of Maine, whose involvement is led by John Belding, the Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership, whose participation is led by Jim Fay, and Stone & Associates, whose contributions are led by Mike Stone. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4fiC5pJ

01/31/2025

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04/24/2020

The AMC has been hard at work developing solutions to challenges faced by healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. UMaine and Maine MEP collaborated to develop an "aerosol box" for intubation procedures; the AMC worked to refine the design for the box and built prototypes for testing.

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A University of Maine and Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership (Maine MEP) innovation team developing solutions to COVID-19-related health care challenges has worked with in-state hospitals and manufacturing partners to build, test and start production of two variations of an “aerosol box” ...

04/06/2020

The University of Maine is working to evaluate and develop solutions for the challenges faced by Maine's healthcare industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our staff at the AMC have been designing and testing solutions to many of these problems, including testing N95 respirators for performance degradation and designing an "aerosol box" for intubation procedures.

Read more about the University of Maine and the AMC's response here:

The University of Maine has formed an innovation team to help evaluate and develop solutions to the shortages of supplies and challenges faced by Maine’s health care centers since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The group includes UMaine faculty, staff and students, representatives from th...

03/31/2020

Here at the AMC, we are proud to announce the launch of our new logo! Our organization has evolved over the years, and we believe the new logo better represents our organization’s status as a premiere engineering support and service center. We look forward to continuing to serve our clients and the state Maine in supporting promoting economic development and the research programs at the University of Maine.

We hope everyone is staying healthy in these challenging times, and we are taking every precaution to ensure the health and safety of our staff.

11/19/2019

A family connection brought Bradley Denholm to the University of Maine from Kempton Park in Johannesburg, South Africa. The opportunity to contribute daily to projects designed for Maine businesses kept him here.  That connection was Denholm’s grandfather, William “Bill” Bacigalupo, who gradu...

10/18/2019

We're excited to announce that the AMC has recently been awarded two grants totaling $2.5 million to upgrade our equipment and accelerate the adoption of additive metal manufacturing in Maine.

Thank you to Maine Technology Institute, Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership and all of our industrial partners, as well as the U.S. Economic Development Administration for helping secure these grants to develop and safeguard Maine's manufacturing sector.

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The Advanced Manufacturing Center at the University of Maine has been awarded two grants totaling $2.5 million to upgrade its equipment and accelerate the adoption of additive metal manufacturing in the state.  The Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership (Maine MEP) received a $1 million National...

08/26/2019

“None of us is smarter than all of us,” reads a sign above the door to the office on PackGen’s manufacturing floor.  For PackGen, a company based in Auburn, Maine that specializes in making industrial shipping containers, it’s all about the people who make a difference in the process, from ...

08/20/2019

We're glad to be featured in Mainebiz's most recent article on innovation in Maine!

In northern Maine, business opportunities are popping up in unexpected places: 3D metal printing in Orono, a new nursing education program in Millinocket, and a massive bridge construction project in Madawaska.