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Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center (IMEC)

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IMEC is a team of improvement specialists and technicians dedicated to providing organizations in Illinois with the tools and techniques to create sustainable competitive futures. The experienced hands-on team at IMEC works closely with its clients to plan critical business improvements in the areas of Leadership, Strategy, Customers, Operations, Workforce, and Results.

With more than 50 full-time staff and partners positioned statewide, IMEC delivers the local expertise to not only PLAN and strategize, but to IMPLEMENT those processes and EXCEL the effectiveness of client improvements. In fact, IMEC assists more than 700 companies each year with successful business improvement projects. As a result, IMEC has demonstrated a return on investment that exceeds 19:1. This is made possible as organizations become more effective and efficient - and together with IMEC – grow their competitive futures. 

Manufacturers throughout the state of Illinois have turned to IMEC to help tackle some of the industry’s most difficult topics like:  Skilled Labor, Continuous Improvement, Technology, Risk Management, Leadership Development, Supply Chain, Process Design, and much more!

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Success Stories

Success in Operations

Reported Year
2024
The leadership at The Caldwell Group recognized the importance and long-lasting positive impacts of receiving the ISO 9001:2015 certification, as it provides another level of credibility to their reputation. The certification provides further evidence that the work being done in their organization is of the upmost quality, especially when much of

Organize Your Workplace

Reported Year
2024
Searching for a way to grow their workplace organization, FusionTECH came across the 5S workplace organization program. FusionTECH was interested in the positive impacts that the 5S system can create for their organization. The 5S methodology is designed to create continuous improvement that builds efficiency and productivity for workplaces

Manufacturing reports

Created March 18, 2019, Updated February 26, 2025