Dave Cranmer

Senior researcher

NIST MEP

With the National Institute of Standards and Technology Manufacturing Extension Partnership (NIST MEP) since 1993, Dave Cranmer is a senior researcher. Currently he focuses on identifying and developing new programs and services for deployment via the MEP system. Current programs include technology scouting and technology-driven market intelligence (with RTI), commercial supplier scouting (with RTI and Edison Nation), industrial and business-to-business marketing, E3, building construction and building energy retrofits.

Mon, 10/27/2014 - 12:52
Cheers to Craft Brewers... and to the Manufacturing Extension Partnership centers that help them
Tue, 01/23/2018 - 12:01
Perhaps you are sitting at home now reading this, and at your elbow is a beer glass resting on a coaster. As you watch the logs in your fireplace shift and spark, and smell the distinct smokiness that comes when seasoned wood burns slowly, you take…
Reflections on 25 Years of the MEP ProgramBuilding programs to help U.S. manufacturers remain competitive
Thu, 05/07/2015 - 11:51
“It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
—Ursula K. LeGuin This is the story of how and why the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) was created. It’s the first in a series of…
Being a Standard Reference HumanA measurement professional becomes a benchmark
Thu, 11/06/2014 - 11:09
Some things are just meant to be, apparently. Sept. 23, 2014, marked an interesting waypoint in the career of someone concerned about standards of measurement, because on that day, I became a standard reference human. Having started working for…
To Live or Die in the Digital AgeCompanies need to find their optimum level of digital intensity
Mon, 10/27/2014 - 12:52
A while back, I spent an afternoon with some folks at the Delaware Valley Industrial Resource Center (DVIRC, one of the MEP centers in Pennsylvania), becoming enlightened on a topic known as “digital intensity” (DI). The phrase, coined by Irene…