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MEP Success Stories from New York

CEG Assists Centrotherm with Plant Layout Maximization at New Waterford Facility

Reported Year
2023
In 2022, Centrotherm had already run out of space at its 62,000-square-foot facility in Albany and partnered with Shaker Logistics to provide offsite warehousing. Space limitations led to a curtailed daily outgoing volume. The facility, which spread across three buildings, could not support a more efficient production layout, and a limited lot size

Lean Six Sigma Training

Reported Year
2023
With Indium Corporation growing at rapid speeds around the world it was identified that the company must comply with multiple training and development tools and certifications. Indium of Clinton, New York, requested the services of Advanced Institute for Manufacturing (AIM), part of the New York MEP and the MEP National Network™, to Provide a Lean

Success Story for Cloud-based Ai-Enabled ECG Analysis platform

Reported Year
2023
zBeats challenge was that their customer base was looking for a cloud-based solution rather than a traditional software solution they would need to install on their own operating systems. Companies were looking to reduce the long term maintenance cost associated with traditional software by switching to a cloud-based software and zBeats' c-suite

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

When You Start to Clean Up and See the Results...It's Contagious

Reported Year
2023
ITAC completed an R&D tax credit for Aurora Lampworks. During the project, a common point of discussion focused on their space and layout. While Aurora Lampworks’ facility spans 7,500 square feet, they were experiencing space and efficiency issues due to the lengthy process involved with each project. Shipments are often sent from overseas in

Wolfspeed Technician Training Provides Help To New Employees

Reported Year
2023
Once Wolfspeed completes the new facility, the next step is to hire highly-skilled employees to operate it. The skills necessary to operate the plant are very specific to this facility and the type of equipment used. The challenge is that there are very few potential employees that currently have the specific skills needed and there is a strong

Quality Management System Implementation

Reported Year
2023
PCP needed to ensure their company had the proper processes in place to produce a consistent product and provide methods to monitor and improve quality and productivity. The owner of the company felt strongly that process control ensured quality, not final inspection. PCP had both a dedicated management team and an experienced core workforce

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

How Lean Implementation Helped REELEX Decrease Waste and Improve Process Flow

Reported Year
2023
REELEX Packaging Solutions Inc. found itself on an upward trajectory in the spring of 2021 due to an increase in demand for the patented REELEX Machines. It was determined that the best course of action to manage this growth would be to utilize the benefits of value stream mapping to guide effective practices and processes for future demand, market
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