b'develop solutions that help drive the move- iron ore and coal were transformed into ment to sustainable energy sources. Model T autos, Molnar said. The foundry Although manufacturing has been outlooks like Hades, and menall men back there forever, he said, I think the image ofthenare sweating away on the assembly manufacturing is also changing. line. Unfortunately, that image from nearly a century ago is what so many people think of Moving Pictures as manufacturing. Modern manufacturing is The image of manufacturing needs tohigh-tech, clean and sustainable.change from the perception of the four DsHe said construction of the Ford Rouge (dirty, dark, dangerous and declining) to thecomplex began in 1917 and was completed four Ss (sustainable, smart, safe and search- in 1928.ing), said Michael Molnar, director of the Of- It not only had this innovation of a mov-fice of Advanced Manufacturing at the Na- ing assembly line, Molnar said, but it was tional Institute of Standards and Technologythe largest integrated factory in the world.in Gaithersburg, Maryland, which is part ofHe said one way that industry is trying the U.S. Department of Commerce and co- to change that negative perception is with ordinates Manufacturing USA, a network ofthe annual Manufacturing Day. The national 17 manufacturing innovation institutes. event takes place the first Friday in October He said many people outside the industrywhen a growing number of manufacturers still view manufacturing similarly to the wayopen their doors to the public, giving peo-that Diego Rivera rendered it in the famousple, such as students, the opportunity to see murals at the Detroit Institute of Arts. production facilities with clean work environ-These murals depicted the original ver- ments and workers operating expensive, so-tically integrated Ford Rouge plant wherephisticated machine tools.The image of manufacturing needs to change from the perception of the four Ds (dirty, dark, dangerous anddeclining) to the four Ss (sustainable, smart, safe and searching).Workforce.indd 21 8/15/23 12:58 PM'