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For almost two decades, the Manufacturing Extension Partnership, MEP, has focused on increasing the competitiveness of the United States industrial base by bridging the productivity gap for manufacturers, identifying opportunities for growth, and encouraging technology deployment.
MEP provides its manufacturing customers with a wide array of fundamental services in business and process improvements helping them to stay strong and ready to compete in the global market. We focus on the future for manufacturers by making advanced technology adoption a reality for any-sized business.
Growing from a pilot project of three centers to national coverage through 59 affiliated organizations, MEP’s range of services provided by these organizations ---and their partners---is also growing:
Programs in Lean manufacturing are expanding to consider the entire enterprise,
Energy and environmental services have grown to consider sustainability, and
Information technology now addresses continuity of service issues.
Future programs will address manufacturers concerns related to Innovation, Technology Deployment and Business Growth.
These and other disciplines add the vital skills and capacity in our client companies that enable them to achieve measurable results.
Today, MEP and its partners provide manufacturers the services it has developed over the years—while adding new offerings in growth services and technology adoption. The nation’s manufacturers, with MEP assistance, have streamlined their plant operations and improved their bottom-line---and as a result, MEP, with its partners, is poised to capitalize on these results by creating opportunities for growth via new sales, new markets, and new products.
NIST MEP
As the federal stewards for the nationwide MEP network, the NIST MEP office serves the network as its coordinator, catalyst, and manager. Specifically, NIST MEP:
Coordinates the activities of the centers and provides vehicles for them to share knowledge and provide common services to customers across state lines
Monitors performance and evaluates the effectiveness of the centers
Collects performance and economic impact data from the centers measuring the economic return on the services they have provided, in order to report back to federal stakeholders
Leverages federal and state partners into support for manufacturers with state-of-the-art business and manufacturing information.
