Annual Technology Forums in cooperation with the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences.

His first choice would have been simply to insert a new type of diamond-coated tool that he had obtained for testing from the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences.

Diamond-coated tools were singled out in 1989 for attention by the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences.

Information like weapon design and components will remain classified, said Rihard Macan, director of production equipment and systems for the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences.

He spends several days a month on work as chairman of the recently formed National Center for Manufacturing Sciences in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Roger Lyon, assistant general secretary of the Manufacturing Science and Finance union, said he would demand that Ferranti should discuss all takeover plans with the workforce first.

A hundred lecturers, members of the Manufacturing Science and Finance Union, are being asked for their support.

The union Manufacturing Science and Finance, which has lecturer members, may also become involved.

The foremen, members of the white-collar Manufacturing Science and Finance union, were protesting over the threat of compulsory redundancies.

The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, the not-for-profit industry research group that oversees the three centers, plans to open 15 more teaching factories this year.