Sep 8 2010
Youngstown State University will be awarded $1.6 million or more in state funds for generating sensing devices for advanced manufacturing purposes.
YSU will be utilizing the award to unite with Youngstown Business Incubator and M-7 Technologies in advancing and commercializing the sensor systems for strengthening the observation abilities during high-tech components manufacture.
Darrell Wallace, project principal investigator and assistant professor of mechanical engineering stated that the YSU will collaborate with M-7 in producing sensors which can be incorporated to the production process so as to monitor a part during manufacture thus avoiding the removal of that part from the process.
M-7 Technologies, which manufactures and repairs machineries for industrial purposes, has developed advanced three dimensional image sensing devices that can be integrated into the accurate machining that will strengthen the field operations and boost the evaluation. Wallace added. He also remarked that the overall outcome of the research work will be the cost-effectiveness and enhanced machine performance and that the quality validation accuracy of this improved technology will surpass all the previously exploited systems.
Wallace said that the $1.66 million award will be deployed for procuring the research equipments and will facilitate YSU in the manufacture of advanced materials.
Julie Michael Smith, chief development officer, Youngstown Business Incubator stated that incubator will be associating with YSU and M-7 in marketing this innovative technology so as to improve economic stability.
The YSU grant was one among the six awards, worth $17 millions declared by the Cleveland State University’s Wright Center for Sensor Systems Engineering .The Center which is a part of the Third Frontier Program of Ohio will strengthen the economic progress in the advancing sensor-technology sector.
Gov. Ted Strickland declared that the Youngstown grant will promote the generation of the Advanced Materials Commercialization and Software Development of the Youngstown Entrepreneurial Hub.
Source: http://www.ysu.edu