As part of the MEP network, the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute is requesting your insight on the state of education/workforce development (EWD) as it pertains to the national...

In the first of this three-part blog series, we introduced the notion of starting with your sales and marketing departments as places where you can innovate new aligned, value-based best practices...

Innovation - the key to American success, prosperity, and global influence. Those of us in the manufacturing sector have heard for years that our country’s economic growth and prosperity is in part...

The end of 2017 brought ups and downs with respect to employment law changes for Oregon manufacturers.  On the federal side, the change in administrations brought modifications to federal agencies,...

The Oregon Applied Sustainability Experience (OASE) wants you to host a 10-week, free intern to conduct Pollution Prevention research at your business Your business may be able to address waste...

As part of my process intensification work for Manufacturing USA's RAPID Institute, I came across “Small Modular Infrastructure” by Dahlgren et al. (The Engineering Economist) that highlights the...

RAPID is seeking manufacturers capable of creating stacked and bonded Inconel 625 plates that are .25mm thick with .006mm tolerance. The RAPID Institute’s (1 of 14 federally funded Manufacturing USA...

OMEP will help manufacturers engage with the federally funded, billion-dollar research and development program Manufacturing USA.  We are seeking US companies who are interested in driving down the...