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MEP Success Stories from Utah

Better Bidding for Rural Utah's Metalcraft

Reported Year
2021
In 2020, Metalcraft noticed changing markets due to increased competition caused by COVID and its direct impact on commercial and business travel. Commercial airlines had canceled many orders during the year, and a large contractor cut its production rates dramatically. Metalcraft wanted to revise its bid estimating process, margin calculations

Flowers and Improvements that Last Forever

Reported Year
2022
The company experienced challenges with meeting a rapidly growing customer demand. With so many orders and so much variety, Forever Floral experienced wide ranging variation with their on-time delivery. In 2022, they reached out to Impact Utah, a sub-recipient of the Utah MEP and part of the MEP National Network™, to get help with a rapid

Team Building and Art of Auto Repair

Reported Year
2021
Autoliv sees its employees as its most valuable resource and remains focused on providing enhanced and improved experiences to improve their skills and abilities. To do this, Autoliv desires to provide their employees valuable ongoing learning experiences and strengthening. Autoliv was seeking an effective team-building exercise that would also

Improving Efficacy at Fierce Firearms

Reported Year
2021
Fierce’s owner wanted to further improve quality in the company's product set. He wanted two of his employees to attend a Six Sigma Green Belt course offered by iMpact Utah, a partner in the Utah-MEP, part of the MEP National Network™.

Campbell Scientific DMAIC

Reported Year
2021
As demand for their products increased, one area of the operations lagged with their on-time delivery. Campbell Scientific turned to Utah Manufacturers Association (UMA), a sub-recipient of the Utah-MEP and part of the MEP National Network™, for help.

Beautiful Changes at Jack’s Ornamental Iron

Reported Year
2021
Jack’s Ornamental Iron is very employee conscious and remains focused on the ever enhanced and improved employee experience. Company leadership desired to find a way to make their employees feel good about where they worked and give them an environment they can be proud of. They were also looking for ways to optimize processes and efficiencies in

Petersen Inc. Pit Crew Challenge

Reported Year
2020
Petersen Inc. is very employee conscious and remains focused on the ever enhanced and improved employee experience. In part because of their desire to provide their employee's valuable ongoing learning experiences and strengthening, Petersen Inc. was seeking an effective team-building exercise that would also bring about added benefits to enhance

It All Starts Upstream - Refining Peczuh Printing Request for Quote Process

Reported Year
2020
The company suffered from inaccurate information and specifications from the RFQ (request for quote) process from the sales to the estimating teams, which led to waste, variation, and overburdening. Peczuh Printing reached out to the Utah Manufacturers Association to help improve their RFQ process, which would in turn increase their on-time

NIST SP 800-171 has Major Impact on ACT Aerospace

Reported Year
2020
As a supplier to the aerospace industry, ACT Aerospace must maintain certain certifications regarding the quality of their work. A key client demanded a review of DFARS compliance, particularly focused on reviewing ACT's NIST 800-171 to demonstrate cybersecurity requirement compliance.

Securing Fortress Clothing for Future Growth

Reported Year
2020
Fortress Clothing has a proprietary apparel technology that allows people to be warm in all weather. After marketing various products that targeted different user needs and applications, the company had decided to focus on promoting its base layer. The idea behind this approach is to allow customers to layer their own "vanity" branded middle layers