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From offices in Boise, Post Falls and Pocatello, TechHelp Manufacturing Specialists help Idaho manufacturers, food processors and inventors/entrepreneurs improve their competitiveness through continuous product and process innovation. Our services fall into three primary areas of practice that include:

  • New Product and Market Development
  • Operational Excellence
  • Food & Dairy Processing 

 The words EXTENSION and PARTNERSHIP capture the spirit of what we do:

  • We extend our people, services, resources, knowledge and expertise to help Idaho manufacturers, processors and inventors improve competitiveness and profitability
  • We can be an extension of your company and of your staff. Call us when you need us
  • TechHelp gives you access to a deep pool of local and national resources through our university, private sector and national MEP partners
  • TechHelp Manufacturing Specialists are available statewide thanks to our university partners

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Success Stories

Accelerating Production with Additive Manufacturing

Reported Year
2024
Seat Concepts' ownership aimed to explore the potential of integrating industrial 3D printing technology into their production process. The primary focus was on automating the creation of seat molds and developing a streamlined method for scanning existing foams or molds to accelerate the replication process. Ownership reached out to the

Potatoes with a Purpose: Elevating Standards with HACCP

Reported Year
2024
Walters Produce 2.0 LLC customers (retailers and business-to-business (B2B)) require 3rd party certification to ensure their food safety and quality systems meet rigorous standards. Walters Produce 2.0 LLC sought the required training to keep its HACCP food safety team compliant. Melissa Moss, Walters Produce's Human Resources and Food Safety

Propelling Forward with 3D Scanning

Reported Year
2024
Renegade Marine Jet Drives originally had their high-thrust impellers hand-made in New Zealand. However, the artisan who made the impellers retired, requiring Renegade Marine Jet Drive to try sourcing new impellers. This problem was two-fold as Jeff Schlagel, the owner, needed both a computer-aided design (CAD) model and a new way of manufacturing
Created March 18, 2019, Updated September 13, 2024