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MEP Success Stories from Ohio

CIFT Assists BeeHex with Product Development for 3D Printing

Reported Year
2021
BeeHex received grant funding from the U.S. Army to help them design a ready-to-eat food production system for forward-base camps utilizing their 3D-printing technology. BeeHex reached out to CIFT, part of the Ohio MEP and the MEP National Network™, for assistance with the development of the nutritional bar. BeeHex's overarching goal was to be able

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

MAGNET Assists Dura-Line Growth Through Factory and Warehouse Kaizens

Reported Year
2021
Dura-Line was moving to a new facility and wanted to take advantage of lean principles. Current distribution layout and coupler layout were inefficient. Wastes included motion, transportation and others. The plant manager engaged MAGNET, part of the Ohio MEP and the MEP National Network™, to challenge current staff, including supervisors, to

Reaching New Markets

Reported Year
2021
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit Indie-Peasant Enterprises, Ltd, DBA Shagbark Seed & Mill, saw the bottom drop out of food service accounts that represented 62% of sales. They also had to end the in-store demos they used to market their chips and crackers in grocery stores around the region, which meant losing 10 contract workers. At the same time, a

Guac Shop - Taking it to the Next Level

Reported Year
2021
In order to take the next step and scale up, Guac Shop had to solve two difficult and expensive problems. The first problem was locating a facility to produce the product. To do this could require significant investment and expense. And the second issue was how to increase the shelf life of the product to make it viable for selling in retail

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.