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MEP Success Stories from Puerto Rico

Safety First Improves Employees Morale and Avoid Costs

Reported Year
2023
Perez Precision Work has an accelerated growth acquiring new machinery and expanding its services outside of PR. Due to the rapid growth and acquisition of new equipment, the company acknowledge that to meet new production challenges, their employees needs to work safely. Their working environment requires employees understanding of applicable

Air Master, Awning LLC.

Reported Year
2023
Inventory usually accounts for 50% of a company's investments in assets and it is a challenge to maintain the balance between satisfactory customer service levels and inventory costs. Air Master was already working through the challenges of recovery from Hurricane Maria and an earthquake in southern Puerto Rico. Then the COVID pandemic shut down

Design of Packaging Plant

Reported Year
2022
As a food company with growing demand, MS Produce management needed to evaluate planning for facilities where it can carry out cleaning, packaging and storing its products effectively and in compliance with regulatory agencies such as USDA and FDA. MS Produce also needed to automate the packaging of their products. This company has a history with

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

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
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