This is Volume 1 of a report addressing the future of American industry. It has been written in response to the transformation of manufacturing practices that i

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The Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) - a program of the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology - has sought for m

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