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MEP Success Stories from Kentucky

Bear Precision: Leadership Development

Reported Year
2023
Starting out as a joint venture in 2021, with a new workforce and a budding culture, the leadership team had little experience together. Additional help was needed to train the leadership team and develop a culture capable of the growth they are anticipating in 2024.

CRG Automation Business Development Success

Reported Year
2023
CRG has been manufacturing custom cartoners for years. Cartoner machines, also known as cartoners, are a type of packaging machine that forms carton packaging.At this point in CRG's evolution, it is time to re-invest into product development and take CRG's cartoner to the next level! While strategically the correct direction, other priorities have

Bendix Spicer Six Sigma Green Belt Certification

Reported Year
2022
During FY2021, the use of coolant in the Bowling Green plant for BG Bendix was higher than expected. CNC machines ran 2-3 times over their specified concentration levels, thus reducing tool life, reducing machine life and overusing coolant. Coolant concentrations were not being properly handled, thus leading them to look elsewhere. Bendix turned to

Everburn: Quality Auditing Process Waste Elimination

Reported Year
2022
As a longtime KY MEP client Everburn and its employees have embraced lean manufacturing through classroom training and kaizen days to address continuous improvement needs. One such need surfaced in the handling of products sampled from production and then checked to standard specification. Too much time was spent handling the samples and not enough

Lincoln Stamping Continuous Improvement

Reported Year
2021
LML wanted to improve efficiencies in their processes by training their staff in continuous improvement methods. For help they turned to the experts at AKA, part of the MEP National Network™. AKA recommended job methods, a training within industry (TWI) program that focuses on improving work processes and procedures.
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