Manufacturing Innovation Blog

What might inspire you to take the plunge and start a new manufacturing company? Perhaps the opportunity to play a key role in innovation and new product development? Small and mid-sized manufacturers represent almost 99 percent of manufacturing...

This article originally appeared on the NIST Taking Measure blog. Guest blog post by Pat Toth. They say opposites attract. While my husband and I have many important things in common, we are complete opposites in one area. He’s a “risk...

Happy Manufacturing Day, from part of our team (pictured above at NIST MEP in Gaithersburg, Maryland) to all of yours across the country! Countless organizations like MEP Centers and their community partners have been planning this day for m...

I research additive manufacturing, which some people call solid freeform fabrication, but most people know as 3-D printing. Additive manufacturing covers a wide range of processes that we can use to build parts and whole structures by strategic...