The 2018 Center Best Practice Conference,  is scheduled for Sept. 12-14 at the Kansas City Marriott Downtown in Kansas City, Missouri. This biennial conference will serve as a training venue for the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Centers to share and receive best practice(s) with MEP Center colleagues. Attendees of this event, will include the national network of hundreds of MEP specialists who understand the needs of America’s small manufacturers. The nationwide network consists of manufacturing extension partnership centers…