Michigan Business Network

Originally uploaded August 15th, re-edited October 15th. On recommendation by Karl Klimek, MBN host of Education's Business – who has been working on some projects with Nigel Francis who among many other roles has served as inaugurator of the Automotive Industry Office in the State of Michigan. Detroit's LIFT, is the national manufacturing innovation institute where manufacturing technology and talent matter. Chris Holman welcomes Joe Steele, VP of Comm and Govt. Affairs, LIFT, Detroit, MI. What is LIFT? (We are a nonprofit, public-private partnership and DoD national manufacturing innovation institute whose mission is to Drive American Advanced Manufacturing Into the Future Though Technology and Talent Development in support of our national economy and national security) That sounds like a lot, how do you do that? (We work at the intersection of advanced materials, manufacturing processes, systems engineering, and talent development. Basically, we work with the DoD and industry to understand what th