Manufacturing Day welcomes three gold sponsors for 2015

The roster of Manufacturing Day 2015 sponsors recently grew by three as SME (formerly the Society of Manufacturing Engineers), the SME Education Foundation and Tooling U-SME all pledged their support to this national movement as gold sponsors.

This is the third consecutive year that SME and its affiliates have been sponsors of Manufacturing Day, but the first time that all three have made a sponsorship commitment at the Gold level.

Manufacturing Day sponsors provide the resources to support manufacturers participating in the program, a grassroots effort by U.S. manufacturers to improve public perception of manufacturing in America by coordinating awareness-raising activities at a variety of locations across the country on October 2, 2015.

Manufacturing Day is an annual national event, executed at the local level, that supports hundreds of manufacturers across the nation as they host students, teachers, parents, job seekers and other local community members at open houses designed to showcase modern manufacturing technology and careers.

A panel of co-producers comprised of the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, International, the National Association of Manufacturers, the Manufacturing Institute, the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership, and guest producer Industrial Strength Marketing provide the centralized support necessary to coordinate this nationwide array of simultaneous events. The national media partners for the event are Edge Factor and the Science Channel and the national movie partner is American Made Movie.

“The co-producers are grateful for the continued support of SME and its affiliates, which are so dedicated to serving the manufacturing engineers of the industry,” said Ed Youdell, president and CEO of the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association. “Their reputation and their reach to professionals in the industry, as well as educators and students, will help to generate participation in Manufacturing Day events across the nation.”

To learn more about Manufacturing Day, visit http://www.mfgday.com. Organizations that wish to become involved as official sponsors should call 888-394-4362 or email [email protected].