The Society of Manufacturing Engineer's Innovations That Could Change the Way You Manufacture program highlights emerging technologies that are currently impacting manufacturing procedures.

The NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) has announced their annual Industry Day Showcase to take place on February 2, 2010. The event will showcase the research of the Center, including Northeastern University, the University of New Hampshire, and the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Instrumentation, Metrology, and Standards for Nanomanufacturing IV, is slated to become the leading forum for the exchange of foundational information and discussion of instrumentation, metrology and standards which are needed components of nanomanufacturing. This conference is part of the NanoEngineering program track of SPIE's NanoScience + Engineering symposium, which will be held from August 1 - 5, 2010, in San Diego, CA. Deadlines for abstracts is January 18.

On January 7th, the Innovation Society Ltd. (St.Gallen) publicly released a "Nano Information Pyramid," which was proposed by Dr. Christoph Meili at the 5th International NanoRegulation Conference in Rapperswil, Switzerland, last November. The Pyramid outlines a schema for the provision of nanospecific information at every stage in the value chain.

An article published online today in Mass Higher Tech highlights the impact that nanotechnology can and likely will have on manufacturing in New England. In fact, the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies' Nanotechnology Map already lists Boston as the top Nano Metro, with more than 30 nanotecnology organizations in the city alone.