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MEP Success Stories from New York

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

Taking Action Against Productivity Losses

Reported Year
2022
Pladis Global’s Horseheads, NY plant requested assistance from AMT, part of the New York MEP and the MEP National Network™, with a project to increase the OEE (overall equipment effectiveness) on one of their packaging lines. The OEE prior to the project was 20-30% and the goal was to achieve greater than 60% OEE.

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

AIM helps Electro-Metrics with Cybersecurity Compliance

Reported Year
2020
Electro Metrics was in need of cybersecurity assistance in order to meet NIST 800-171 guidelines required by their customers in the Department of Defense supply chain. Electro Metrics did not have the resources to gather the information required to meet these guidelines within their offices, so they reached out to AIM, part of the New York MEP and

Innovative EDM Machine Made in the USA

Reported Year
2021
EDM machining surpasses the limits of traditional machining with the ability to drill, etch, and cut more complex jobs with precision accuracy using any conductive material. New and existing customers - especially from traditional machine shops - need support choosing, installing, configuring, and deploying advanced machines. Titan recognized that

Quality Management System Implementation and Certification for Start-Up Company

Reported Year
2021
The owners have extensive experience working in the aerospace industry and recognized they needed to achieve AS 9100 certification in order to increase sales in this market. As a start-up, however, they faced a challenge that they had little to no document structure or established processes to build upon.

Oneida Air Systems Supports Growth with Toyota Kata and Lean Manufacturing

Reported Year
2021
OAS needed to establish operational excellence and rapid fulfillment as a new competitive advantage in the midst of numerous external obstacles. OAS’ research and development team regularly creates the most innovative solutions in the world, but their products were being copied by competition at a faster rate than they had ever seen before. At the

How Grit and Dedication Changed a Company’s Fortune in Two Months

Reported Year
2021
Mr. Reynaldo Zapata, Founder and CEO, wanted to secure a Department of Defense (DOD) contract because he felt it was crucial and urgent to keep his business going. Qualitech needed to be cyber secure for the DOD and Northrop Grumman and they needed to do it quickly. The cybersecurity team at the NYMEP Manufacturing and Technology Enterprise Center

PVA Achieves Rapid Growth and Manages its Stresses with CEG’s Help

Reported Year
2021
In 2019, PVA was poised to increase its annual sales revenues by more than 40 percent after working with the Center for Economic Growth (CEG), part of the New York MEP and the MEP National Network™, on several initiatives. These initiatives, coupled with a lean kaizen training, set PVA on a course for rapid growth. That resulted in stress and

Leadership Training Launches Big Impacts

Reported Year
2021
Hi-Lite has relied on the MEP National Network™ for many years. With rapid growth and multiple locations it is challenging to ensure that a company is always offering consistent quality and service to clients. A 2019 leadership workshop identified the need for a consistent method to develop, establish, and maintain process improvement around