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Manufacturing Innovation Blog

Clara Asmail

Clara Asmail develops new approaches to support small R&D and manufacturing businesses with resources to commercialize technologies. Her 25+ year career at NIST includes managing the SBIR Program and Technology Transfer, and leader of optical scatterometry research projects. One of her inventions is the highest royalty bearing license at the NIST Labs.

DOE Labs “Road Tour” Opens Doors to their Treasures

October 26, 2016

This autumn was hot for four states selected by the Department of Energy (DOE) to host bootcamps, associated with the MITEC pilot discussed in a previous blog

Enlightening Enterprise 3D Printing

July 8, 2016

Enterprise 3D printing is ascending the Slope of Enlightenment. Gartner 1 placed it there on its Hype Cycle curve in 2013 and it has been marching toward the

MITEC is Our Tech

May 17, 2016

Last week, a few folks from Oak Ridge (ORNL), National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) and Sandia got together with a few folks from MEP Centers and some of their

Funding U.S. Manufacturing Innovation with SBIR

March 9, 2016

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is a highly competitive program that encourages domestic small businesses to engage in Federal Research

Additive Manufacturing Adds up in Many Ways

May 13, 2015

Rapid prototyping using technologies that build parts layer by layer, aka additive manufacturing or 3D printing, has been around for a couple of decades. It is

Getting Uncle Sam’s Help on 3D Printing Projects

February 4, 2015

Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, provides cost-effective solutions to vexing industrial problems. The series of tests and evaluations against

Plotting the Future of 3D Printing

November 25, 2014

Additive manufacturing (AM) is hurtling into its wide and wonderful future. Right now heavy attention is being given to the promise AM offers to toy and

Limber “Old” Corporations Build New Bridges

February 14, 2014

The quintessential venture capital (VC) paradigm has been to grow a business from a technology that incubated for a couple of decades in federal, university and

Cobblers Elves are Hard at Work Shaping our Future

December 24, 2013

Long gone are the large R&D infrastructures vertically integrated within large companies: ah, the good ol’ days of Bell Labs, Kodak, and Xerox. Well we

This is not your child’s paper mache

April 30, 2013

Materials for 3D printing are no longer limited to plastics and metals. And 3D printing is not happening only in garages or nifty service salons. European

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Manufacturing Innovation, the blog of the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), is a resource for manufacturers, industry experts and the public on key U.S. manufacturing topics. There are articles for those looking to dive into new strategies emerging in manufacturing as well as useful information on tools and opportunities for manufacturers.

The views presented here are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or policies of NIST.

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