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MEP Success Stories from Ohio

FastLane - Bar Code Scanner Upgrade

Reported Year
2021
The manufacturing facility had a single point of failure: an obsolete bar code scanner that every single bag of chips had to pass through. This piece of equipment not only tracked the production throughput, but it also rejected off-quality products. This scanner and its PLC (programmable logic controller, an industrial computer control system) had

Machining Knowledge Base Improvement Workshops

Reported Year
2021
In the changing world of manufacturing, Rhinestahl saw a need for their highly skilled workforce to keep pace with the increasing complexity brought on by the needs of their cutomers. Executive leaders, operations leaders, and shop supervisors all recognized a need to think outside of the box to train their workforce. Rhinestahl turned to Techsolve

Strategy and Solution Selling Workshop

Reported Year
2021
Osco uses in-house sales representatives and well as manufacture reps. The manufacture reps are located all across the country. Osco needed to conduct sales training without staff needing to travel to attend due to the risks imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. For help, they contacted OSU South Centers MEP, part of the Ohio MEP and the MEP National

Arc Flash Assessment helps Graymont achieve OSHA and NFPA Compliance

Reported Year
2021
In order to ensure their employees safety as well as to be compliant with OSHA, in cooperation with NFPA requirements, Graymont needed to conduct an arc flash assessment. An arc flash assessment is a study of the facility's power system to determine the incident energy available at specific electrical devices that employees would be exposed to

MAGNET assists Deca Manufacturing grow their business

Reported Year
2021
Currently DECA Manufacturing is challenged with reaching the next level of sales growth. They require support with lean manufacturing implementation, systems and processes development for administration, and brought their organizational expansion to include sales, marketing and lead generation, etc. For help they turned to MAGNET, part of the Ohio

Continuing Training In Difficult Times

Reported Year
2021
Detroit Diesel needed assistance in fulfilling their annual goal of training for management. However, due to COVID-19 restrictions, as well as cutting their training budget due to loses in revenue, continuing annual training was a difficult tasks. They were looking to provide training for several dozen employees at a low cost and in a safe and

Emersion Designs Journey to Cybersecurity Compliance Eased by MEP

Reported Year
2021
Emersion Design's leadership team is very customer-focused and because of that dedication and the amount of government entities Emersion serves, its IT team proactively sought to become cybersecurity compliant based on the current DFARS language and NIST SP 800-171 security framework. In addition, Emersion wanted to work toward compliance

FastLane supports Budde Automation Commissioning

Reported Year
2021
Budde Precision is a growing company and recently entered into the aerospace and defense industry. Budde needed to expand their capacity to be able to manage their current and future workload, but lacked the skilled workforce to do so.
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