Center for Advanced Technology Solutions by MEP (CATS)
(formerly MEP Advanced Technology Team)
Intellectual Assets is a contractor to Polaris MEP for this project
Struggling with an impossible technical problem that is limiting your competitiveness?
Whether it is material, sensor, electronic, data, chemical, civil or mechanical; let us tap into our resources to bring you a solution.
Intellectual Assets is a principal in the Center for Advanced Technology Solutions. A commercialization acceleration business development consultancy that assists manufacturers struggling with an impossible technical problem that is limiting competitiveness and/or production.
This Service is purpose built to provide critical connections to the technical resources and facilities your organization needs to overcome manufacturing's inevitable hurdles. We provide the on-ramp to your technology roadmap.
The Center for Advanced Technology Solutions is a national program initially funded by the Manufacturing Extension Partnership National Network. We are well versed in helping you make the necessary connections as you bring your plant into the next century. Our guidance and expert advice provide critical connections to the resources and facilities your organization needs to grow your top line and find unique solutions to persistent problems on the plant floor.
The Team has direct contact or line-of-sight connections to the following resources:
16 Institutes funded with over $1B to help create collaborations to spur US Manufacturing Innovation
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2) Federal Laboratory Consortium:
350 facilities across the US spending $150B annually on R&D. Access to expertise, capabilities and technologies to solve small business issues.
A 51-state center network with over 1400 field staff to help solve process improvement and connect you to your next partner
The process begins identifying the hurdle you are trying to overcome. It ends with technical advice and a new relationship.
Some common areas where manufacturers encounter hurdles and need our Advanced Technology Expert advice:
- Developing new products or enhancing old ones.
- Seeking to enhance their data collection or data use
- Product problems that could be solved with research
- Marketing questions that could be gleaned from customers
- Interest in teaming with the government and need help where to start
The MEP Advanced Technology Team
The Team is national in scope, with offices in
West: David McFeeters-Krone
Southeast: Danny Norman
Midwest: Beth Bornick
Northeast: Rob Chipman
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Read our recent article in SME Media here.
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