The Montana Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Center is a statewide manufacturing outreach as well as assistance center staffed by full-time professionals with extensive experience in manufacturing and business in a variety of industries.  In particular, our mission is to grow Montana’s economy by helping manufacturers succeed.

We serve the manufacturers of Montana by helping them assess as well as improve their manufacturing operations, providing trainings and workforce development, and leveraging research and technological developments at Montana State University to keep manufacturing competitive in the state.

MMEC is housed in the the Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering at Montana State University in Bozeman, with remote offices in Billings, Missoula, Kalispell, as well as Great Falls. Furthermore, our expertise includes staff with decades of combined experience in manufacturing.

We are also part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) National Network. NIST is a non-regulatory agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce that promotes U.S. innovation as well as industrial competitiveness. MEP is a public-private partnership with centers in all 50 states aw well as Puerto Rico dedicated to serving small and medium-sized manufacturers.

MMEC has an advisory board that helps guide how we serve Montana’s manufacturers. We receive financial and program support from MSU, the State of Montana, the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)Manufacturing Extension Partnership as well as other partners.

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