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Center for Advanced Electronics Design & Manufacturing
North Dakota State University
COE Funds Distributed: $3,000,000
Amount of Match Received-to-Date: $6,000,000
Anticipated Total Match: $7,987,708
Approved: December 5, 2005
Funded: February 2006
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Purpose
TheCenter of Advanced Electronics Design and Manufacturing (CAEDM) is performing market-driven research and development on wireless machine sensors utilizing new global wireless standards, manufacturing robotics, advanced electronics and electronic materials, testing and RFID technologies and systems.
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Partners
- Crane Wireless Monitoring Solutions
- Appareo Solutions
- Aldevron
- Pedigree Technologies
- Bobcat Company
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Project Summary & Highlights
- A relationship NDSU and Crane Wireless monitoring Solutions on government (Department of Defense, DoD) projects enabled the transition of NDSU-Crane micro sensor fabrication methodology to Killdeer Mountain Manufacturing (KMM) in Killdeer, ND. Over the last year, KMM has manufactured hundreds of micro sensors to use in military qualification tests.
- CAEDM's projects with Crane Wireless Monitoring Solutions (WMS) resulted in a supply agreement with Crane WMS and Phoenix International (PI) was formed for PI to provide contract manufacturing for WMS's commercial line of wireless sensor networking equipment. PI completed its first order in December 2007.
- A partnership with Appareo Systems resulted in three projects involving building small quantities of prototypes for seven unique printed circuit boards for initial market opportunity analysis. Appareo indicated that CAEDM is the first partner able to keep up with the fast pace of product development and prototyping. Appareo's ALERTS (Aircraft Logging and Events recording for Training and Safety) product was recently cited as the "Aviation Week and space Technology 2007 Product Breakthrough of the Year."
- Aldevron, LLC and CAEDM launched a project aimed at developing an automated robotic system and process that will enable Aldevron to achieve higher production rates with reduced variability between samples.
- Doosan Infracore, formerly Bobcat Company, teamed up with CAEDM on six projects since May 2006 to investigate advanced electronics that improve the introduction of new products into their manufacturing process.
- CAEDM personnel assisted Pedigree Technologies in the early phase of a major Federal (DoD) contract opportunity that Pedigree won and attributed to significant additions to the Pedigree workforce.
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