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MEP Success Stories from Puerto Rico

Alltrisrta Plastics Plastics, LLC Certified under the ISO 13485:2016 Standard

Reported Year
2022
Alltrista Plastic's customers, medical devices and pharmaceutical manufacturers, continuously demand higher standards and that their suppliers operate under a formal quality system. Alltrista Plastics Puerto Rico, LLC, realized that their quality management system needed to be upgraded in order to meet international standards. Since the company’s

IPC- 620 Specialist Support for Quality Compliance

Reported Year
2021
El-Com Systems Corp was required to improve the quality of its assemblies in accordance with the IPC/WHMA-A-620 - a quality standard that describes the requirements and acceptance for cable/wire harness assemblies. If the cable assembly production employees were not trained under this standard customers would cancel their orders (with a penalty

Lean Layout and Continuous Flow Increases Productivity

Reported Year
2021
Due to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic the company experienced a reduction in workforce, which left management feeling concerned. This phenomenon led the company to seek out the MEP Center in PR, PRiMEX, part of the MEP National Network™, to evaluate improvement alternatives that would allow them to meet demand with the new productive capacity. As

Digitalization Transformation to Innovate New Product

Reported Year
2021
Campolor was having problems with inventory control due to non-real time supply chain data collection. Departments were using manual excel spreadsheets and other software that were not interconnected. Inefficiencies resulted from the double data entry in multiple systems. In addition, all the US FDA food safety regulatory (FSMA) batch record

Amasar Overcomes Need to Avoid Waste and Increase Productivity

Reported Year
2021
As part of the entrepreneurs’ environmental protection efforts the operation currently runs by solar power generation. Irrigation of their breadfruit trees is provided mostly by gravity means. They are in the process of replacing their packaging with one that has no aluminum, are incorporating sensors and digital communication to their process to

I CAL Group, LLC Certified Under the ISO 9001:2015 Standard

Reported Year
2020
I Cal Group's customers, who are primarily medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers, continuously demand higher standards and that suppliers operate under a formal quality system. I Cal Group realized that their quality management system needed to be upgraded. Since the company’s personnel had participated in various activities sponsored by

Business Financial Turnaroud

Reported Year
2020
Safetech needed to formalize its administrative activities and finance. Among the needs were improve its revenues, collections, and expenses. The company contacted PRiMEX, part of the MEP National Network™, for assistance with these challenges and long term engagement.
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