As part of the NIST MEP survey, clients from the 51 Manufacturing Extension Partnership Centers are asked to identify the top three challenges their companies will face over the next three years. A predetermined list of challenges is used, which…
The Pennsylvania Manufacturing Advisory Council was formed last year as a public-private consortium. Its goal is to provide the Commonwealth’s legislative leaders and leading gubernatorial candidates with policy, program and legislative priority recommendations that will enhance the competitiveness of Pennsylvania’s…
Meet the Premiere Sponsor and Featured Exhibitor: NEFF
For Manufacturing Advanced Expo 2022, Neff has lined up the best of the best, and they are ready with hands-on demonstrations designed to help YOU with your automation and manufacturing challenges. Do…
McDowell Manufacturing, a student-run enterprise at McDowell High School, was awarded a Manufacturing Training to Career grant for $99,730 to fulfill the expansion needs of the organization and continue to develop students for the manufacturing industry. A press conference was…
Katie Rapp, NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership
In an Industry Week webinar late last year, ‘The 7 Essential Traits of a Resilient Growth Strategy’, Chris Scafario and Sylvia Wower from the Delaware Valley Industrial Resource Center (DVIRC), part of the Pennsylvania…
by Bob Zaruta, President/CEO, NWIRC
On February 24, I joined a handful of my peers from around the country as we presented to the national network of Manufacturing Extension Partnerships (MEPs) located in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. The…
Is your organization:
Struggling to meet the monthly performance goals?
Constantly expediting orders and running too much overtime?
Getting customer complaints for late orders or long lead-times?
Suffering from the end of the month syndrome?
Finding it difficult to attract…
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software systems form the backbone and basis for manufacturing and distribution businesses technology and computing. They represent the largest expenditure on Information Technology (IT) assets, yet over the last 2-3 decades, many companies have struggled to…
