Introducing Re:Build’s Battery Test Kitchen
Re:Build has expertise in designing and building battery packs and battery management systems (BMS) subassemblies for a variety of applications, including motorcycles, forklifts, stationary storage, and novel eVTOL aircraft. Re:Build’s Brain to Box™ methodology supports customers from design concept and product development through product verification, manufacturing process design, and production support. Our iterative process in engineering and design for manufacturing ensures that customers’ battery packs will be cost-effective and will perform as needed, while meeting requirements for safety, reliability, and ease of use. These battery packs are designed by our team of highly experienced engineers who are tasked each day with solving the most challenging design and analysis problems. Our core competencies include computer-aided design, structural design, mechanical design, and computational thermal and fluid dynamic analysis.
2023: A Year of Extraordinary Achievements
2023: A Year of Extraordinary Achievements
Let’s take a look back at 2023 and the Re:Build team’s outstanding accomplishments. Re:Build Optimation Reached a Safety Milestone, Re:Build CDI Exceeded Expectations on their Lean Transformation Journey, Re:Build Manufacturing Launched a New Corporate Website, Re:Build DAPR Launched a U.S.-Made Solar CZ Puller, Re:Build Fikst Moved to a New Facility, Re:Build Oribi Composites Launched a Line of Thermoplastic Composite Tubes, Re:Build AppliedLogix Achieved “First-Key-On” Success, Re:Build Manufacturing Broke Ground on a Regional and Manufacturing Site in New Kensington, PA
Lean Enterprise Institute Visits Re:Build CDI
November 15, 2023 – On Monday, October 23, Matt Savas and Josh Howell of the https://www.lean.org/about-lei/ Edit Edit Remove Remove Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) visited Re:Build CDI. LEI is a nonprofit based in Boston whose mission is to advance lean thinking and practices. It was founded in 1997 by https://www.lean.org/about-lei/senior-advisors-staff/james-womack/ Edit Edit Remove Remove James Womack, who co-authored The Machine that Changed the World and founded the lean movement. After visiting the Re:Build Re:Source center in Framingham, seeing the https://www.lean.org/about-lei/ Edit Edit Remove Remove Lean Transformation Roadmap board, and chatting with Miles Arnone, Re:Build’s CEO, and Bonnie Davis, Re:Build’s Chief Lean Officer, Matt and Josh wanted to understand more about CDI’s lean transformation process.
FIRST Robotics
Hollis, New Hampshire – Last school year, Re:Build Manufacturing made a generous donation to support the robotics team at the Hollis Brookline Middle School, located in Hollis, New Hampshire, where I mentor science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) students. My daughter and twelve other students at the school registered for the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) robotics team and the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC). Competing as team number 22760, it was the rookie year for the Navy Knights, and the season was incredibly fun, exciting, and rewarding for all thirty FTC participants.
Re:Build Manufacturing Announces a New Line of Advanced, Continuous Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Composite Tubes and Profiles
Framingham, MA – Re:Build Manufacturing is pleased to announce its latest breakthrough product: a new line of continuous fiber reinforced thermoplastic (CFRTP) tubes and profiles, produced at Re:Build’s Oribi Composites facility in Denver, Colorado. Nearly all composite tubes and profiles available today utilize thermoset resin matrices to support the fiber reinforcement or use non-continuous fiber reinforcements. These materials, while light and stiff, are typically lower in toughness and durability, and are not recyclable. Re:Build’s newly developed production technology offers several key benefits for users including improved impact resistance, vibration dampening, corrosion resistance, high and low temperature resistance, durability, and recyclability. Ideal applications for these components include sporting goods shafts, aerospace and automotive tubes and tie rods, medical components, and robotic frames and arms.
NY-BEST Fall Energy Storage Technology & Innovation Conference 2023
NY-BEST Fall Energy Storage Technology & Innovation Conference 2023–NY-BEST is hosting our Annual Fall Energy Storage Technology and Innovation Conference on Wednesday, October 18th, 2023, at the Doubletree by Hilton in Binghamton, NY.
New Kensington Update
I’m thrilled to share an update on the dynamic progress of our renovations at Re:Build’s 175,000 square foot site in the New Kensington Advanced Manufacturing Park. We’ve marked another milestone in fulfilling our mission to create a revitalized, thriving, sustainable U.S. manufacturing base. Phase 1 of the physical transformation at New Ken is well underway, owing in large part to our partnership with the Regional Industrial Development Corporation of Southwest Pennsylvania (RIDC) and Mascaro Construction. Two out of four buildings have undergone a successful partial renovation. Outdated elements—old concrete, electrical wiring, and energy-inefficient windows—are now history. We’re pressure-washing, repairing roofs and masonry, and preparing a concrete foundation that’s over a foot thick, a testament to our commitment to excellence from the ground up.
Re:Build Manufacturing Launches a State-of-the-Art, U.S.-Made Solar CZ Puller to Support the Increasing Market Demand for Photovoltaics
Framingham, MA – Re:Build Manufacturing, a leader in the design and production of custom automation and industrial products, advanced materials, and technology solutions, announces the launch of the RBM600 Solar CZ Puller designed for the manufacture of high-purity ingots used in the photovoltaic solar materials industry. This state-of-the-art equipment showcases Re:Build’s dedication to driving innovation, fostering American manufacturing, and delivering products that are designed and built in the U.S. and meet the highest standards of safety and performance. The RBM600 is a testament to Re:Build’s mission to reinvigorate American manufacturing. Every aspect of the RBM600’s development—from its inception, design, and fabrication to its final assembly— takes place domestically.
The Re:Build Origin Story
By Miles Arnone — I’m often asked how Re:Build Manufacturing got its start. Like many businesses’ origin story, it contains personal and professional elements. The personal aspect goes back more than thirty-five years, when Jeff Wilke was growing up in Pittsburgh, which was beginning to decline as an industrial mecca, and I was in high school. We both were concerned about the degradation of the U.S. manufacturing base (yes, this is what I was thinking about as a teenager!), which at that time was struggling to compete with Japan. No one was worried about China as a competitor in the late 1980s or early 1990s. In any case, ultimately those changes led us both, and several other early and current Re:Builders, to apply (and miraculously be accepted) to a graduate program at MIT called, “Leaders for Manufacturing.” The idea of the program was to equip engineering-centric professionals with the management and leadership skills necessary to drive improvements in the U.S. manufacturing ecosystem.
Exro Names Re:Build Manufacturing Its Exclusive Cell Driver™ Manufacturing Partner
Calgary, AB – Exro accelerates its energy storage business, naming Re:Build Manufacturing its exclusive manufacturing partner and establishing new channel partnership agreements. Exro announces US-based Re:Build Manufacturing is its exclusive manufacturing partner for Cell Driver™ Energy Storage, thereby outsourcing product assembly to an industry expert. The partnership with Re:Build Manufacturing provides Exro the ability to quickly scale to capture the significant opportunity in energy storage while removing all future capital expenditure and inventory working capital requirements associated with Cell Driver™ manufacturing from Exro’s balance sheet. Exro also announces new channel sales partnerships with PVCA, ProSolar, Shaw Solar, and High Point Electric, renewable energy and energy management integrators that cover customer networks in California, Colorado, Florida, the Caribbean, and regions within Canada. Cell Driver™ is on track for UL certification in early Q3 2023, to be followed immediately by start-of-series production with in-field pilots and deliveries.
