University of Buffalo uses $2.3 million NSF grant to advance AI in manufacturing

3D Natives covered news of a $2.3 million National Science Foundation grant led by Hongyue Sun to help manufacturing systems, including those using 3D printing, modernize by putting the complex steps and processes that define them under computer systems.

They are aiming at simplifying production of commercial products as well as educational outreach. “A commercial product is the end result of a long chain of interwoven steps that may span geography, industries and different manufacturing processes,” says Hongyue Sun, the grant’s principal investigator and assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering.

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