Manufacturers can learn about digital lab opportunities

Manufacturers can learn more about how they can benefit from the new $320 million digital lab for manufacturing that the U.S. Department of Defense and University of Illinois-affiliated UI Labs are establishing in Chicago’s Goose Island neighborhood.

A. Finkl & Sons, the City of Chicago and World Business Chicago are hosting on forum at 8 a.m. Friday that will outline how manufacturers could take advantage of research done at the state-of-the-art lab, which will aim to help companies advance prototypes into finished products more quickly…Please click here to read Joseph S. Pete’s story in the Times.