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MEP Success Stories from New York

CITEC Provides Prospective Ward Lumber Managers with Leadership Training

Reported Year
2023
Becoming a “workplace of choice” is no longer optional for success. Ward Lumber, like virtually every other business, needed to find ways to reduce turnover on their team and attract new hires to their business. Solving these problems would also reduce the burden felt by all employees of being short-staffed. Ward Lumber believed that providing

Indium achieves success with centralizing warehousing and purchasing.

Reported Year
2023
Due to growing sales, Indium’s Upstate New York factories needed additional production space. Valuable space in their factories was occupied by large quantities of packaging materials. Although many of the packaging materials were common to multiple factories, they were replenished by each individual factory, resulting in more inventory than was

INTERNAL AUDITING SUPPORT

Reported Year
2023
The small company has been ISO 9001:2015 certified, with Insyte’s assistance, since 2016 but could not provide internal resources to conduct regular required audits of their quality management system (QMS). This inability to conduct internal audits, consequently, put their ISO certification, and some customer revenue, at risk.

Supply Chain Issues Resolved for Local Manufacturer

Reported Year
2022
Manufacturing & Technology Enterprise Center (MTEC), part of the New York MEP and the MEP National Network™, has been assisting GTI with the design, manufacturing and programming of the controller boards used in many of their lighting products for several years. Due to the recent supply chain issues, components for these boards were unavailable

SQF9 READINESS ASSESSMENT AND SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION

Reported Year
2022
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic McCullagh saw an opportunity to take their product quality to a new level by attaining SQF 9 certification. It was a milestone they were excited about and willing to embrace. The SQF 9 code is the latest version of the Safe Quality Food (SQF) standard, a GFSI-recognized certification program that assists food

Sotek, Inc. - QMS Internal Auditing Support

Reported Year
2022
The company has been ISO 9001:2015 certified but had struggled to consistently complete the required internal audits, consequently putting at risk their certification and potential revenue from customers that require quality management system certification. For the past three years, Sotek has engaged Insyte Consulting, part of the New York MEP and

Centrotherm Launches Product in Canada amid Pandemic with CEG’s Support

Reported Year
2022
Toward the end of 2019, Centrotherm was preparing to launch a new product in Canada: Air Excellent, a dedicated system for heat recovery ventilation (HRV) and energy recovery ventilation (ERV) that supports air quality control for residential and commercial spaces. Air Excellent had been introduced in Europe about eight years earlier, and markets

MTEC Assists GTI with Expansion into International Markets

Reported Year
2021
GTI is expanding their market internationally. In doing so, they have become subject to worldwide enhanced certification standards that have tightened in recent years. GTI was left with printed circuit boards (PCBs) that could not be distributed in international markets as they did not comply with CE requirements which are the standards for
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