Advanced Manufacturing Institute (AMI)
Description:
AMI exists to advance technologies, people, and companies through collaborative engineering
and business partnerships. AMI's model, similar to a teaching hospital, is to mentor
engineering and business students while completing projects that improve the competitiveness
of technology-based businesses. Since 1995, AMI has completed more than 2,500 industry
projects with more than 500 client organizations located in 66 Kansas counties. During
the last five years, AMI has contracted with 111 unique clients (21 were inventor/entrepreneurs
and 19 were businesses in a start-up phase). Through its projects with entrepreneurs
and existing businesses, AMI generates positive economic impact throughout the state
of Kansas and beyond. In the last five years AMI's efforts resulted in the creation
of 702 new jobs, 118 retained jobs, $186M in increased sales, and $665K in reduced
costs (Source: reported by KTEC from an approximate 20 percent sample survey of projects
with a 53 percent survey response rate). In 2009, AMI worked on 61 R&D projects for
36 different companies and two university departments, and completed 67 technical
assistance projects for 43 external clients and 20 technical assistance projects for
8 K-State clients during FY 2009. Also in 2009, AMI began working with KDOC and the
Great Plains Wind Network to increase the volume of Wind Energy equipment components
manufactured in Kansas.
Offering:
Year-round
Contact:
Jeff Tucker, 785-532-3421, jtucker@amisuccess.com
Website:
Program Partners:
Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation; Kansas Department of Commerce; Great Lakes Wind Network
Institutional Impact Area(s):
K-State College of Engineering
Audience:
Technology-based businesses throughout Kansas; Economic Development District Agents; state economic development agents
Tags:
Business and Industrial Development; Community and Economic Development; Science and Technology; College of Engineering