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West Virginia Manufacturing Extension Partnership (WVMEP)

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The West Virginia Manufacturing Extension Partnership (WVMEP) is a program in the West Virginia University (WVU) Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources Industrial Extension. WVMEP's mission is to strengthen, empower, and grow West Virginia manufacturing to improve the competitiveness of West Virginia both locally and globally, while also serving as the outreach arm of the Statler College connecting WVU resources to West Virginia manufacturers. WVMEP provides manufacturing consulting services to West Virginia industry including production process improvement, quality and management systems, innovation and growth services, and safety and industrial hygiene. The WVMEP prides itself on helping manufacturers and working closely with state and economic development resources to provide additional support and ensure all needs of the manufacturers are addressed.

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Success Stories

Automated Merchandising Systems Seeks to Improve Energy Efficiency

Reported Year
2024
Innovation, reliability, and dependability are at the core of AMS. One thing that ties these values together and allows AMS to be an industry leader is continuous improvement. Leadership at AMS has been extremely proactive in identifying opportunities to improve their manufacturing processes in support these core values. Most recently, this

Manufacturer Trains New Internal Auditors to Support ISO 9001 System

Reported Year
2023
DALB Inc. is certified to ISO 9001:2015 and has their own internal auditing team that evaluates their own operations as part of the required auditing process. To ensure that their audit team is robust and that enough employees are trained to conduct audits, they contracted with WVU Industrial Extension, part of the MEP National Network, to train

WVMEP Helps Precision Tool Comply with Cybersecurity Requirements

Reported Year
2023
Leadership looked to strategically broaden its focus and grow the business into other areas, including the Department of Defense (DOD) supply chain. As a small company with limited resources, the flow down of cybersecurity requirements were not only overwhelming but also very unclear to Precision Tool. Precision Tool leadership turned to the WVMEP
Created March 18, 2019, Updated February 16, 2024