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What Smart Manufacturing Looks Like Today

Manufacturing has always evolved. New equipment changes how products are made. New technology changes how information moves. New customer expectations change how manufacturers compete. Today, those changes are happening faster. Artificial intelligence, automation, robotics, connected equipment, sensors, digital twins, advanced materials, additive manufacturing, and data analytics are moving from research […]
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Building a Stronger Defense Supply Chain Starts Locally

A Message From MassMEP’s President Massachusetts has always been a leader in innovation and manufacturing. Today, it is also one of the nation’s most important defense states. The recently released Strategic Hub for Innovation, Exchange and Leadership in Defense (SHIELD) Report highlights the tremendous opportunity—and responsibility—for Massachusetts manufacturers to strengthen […]
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Rypos Filters Out Waste in Their Operations

For over 25 years, Rypos has continued to innovate and adapt its unique self-cleaning particulate filter technology, which eliminates up to 95% of black carbon typically released into the environment by diesel engines. The manufacturing and technology company builds DPF (Diesel Particulate Filters), which are electrically activated emission control systems that capture […]
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CMMC Phase II Is Suspended. Your Cybersecurity Obligations Are Not.

By Hayley Steele, Associate Director of Market Intelligence & Strategic Programming, MassMEP On July 13, 2026, the Department of Defense announced the immediate suspension of CMMC Phase II requirements, which had been scheduled to take effect November 10, 2026. For manufacturers who have been working toward certification, the phones started […]
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The Innovation Moment in Manufacturing Is Here. Are You Ready?

By Matt Healy, Director of Emerging Technologies, MassMEP If you’ve been watching the manufacturing landscape over the past few years, you know that the pace of change has accelerated dramatically. New technologies that once felt distant are showing up on shop floors today. And the manufacturers who are paying attention […]
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American Surgical Company Improves Operations

For over thirty-five years, top hospitals and physicians from around the world have trusted American Surgical Company®(ASC) to develop and provide innovative, single-use tools surgeons need “to help their patients get better.”  In fact, their products are used every 3.3 seconds by medical professionals in over seventy countries across six contents and have earned the company a 98% customer retention rate. Proudly ASC’s […]
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Massachusetts has been an innovator for 250 years

We are where the ideas turn to production that changed the world. A message from the president On July 4, America will celebrate 250 years of freedom and independence. The story is often told through the lens debate, shouting and ultimately the drafting and signing of the Declaration of Independence […]
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A Message from the President

On June 2, 2026, the DCU Center in Worcester becomes the center of gravity for Massachusetts manufacturing. The people presenting, sponsoring, and staffing this event are practitioners, men and women who work inside the same pressures, regulations, and market shifts that attendees face daily. When the planning of this event […]
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