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MEP Success Stories from New Hampshire

AeroDynamics Takes on ISO 13485:2016 to Compete in the Medical Marketplace

Reported Year
2024
As of 2024, AeroDynamics had doubled its employee base. They also doubled their customer base earning work from customers like Raytheon, Gillette and SpaceX. “After the pandemic manufacturing slowed down. So we were looking for ways to diversify and appeal to different industries,” said Director of Quality and Engineering Emerson Bilodeau. “We were

Lean Manufacturing Makes Forward Merch More Efficient and Increases Customer Satisfaction

Reported Year
2024
“It was 2021 and we were growing at a rapid pace,” said Managing Partner and Chief Operating Officer Kristian Theodore. “We were scaling very quickly and noticing a lot of inefficiencies. Projects were not getting done in a timely manner because of the way we had things set up.” Kristian and his partners knew they needed a system to get their

Rumford Stone Utilizes a Lean Training and Implementation Program to Improve Their Business

Reported Year
2024
“We’re a custom job shop. We don’t have the luxury of making 1,000 widgets at a time,” said Vince Trento, President of Rumford Stone. “So, we were having a problem with our sink handling process. We had solid processes in place for making countertops, but the handling and coordination of customer sinks were creating inefficiencies. We supplied some

Lean Training and Implementation Leads to Much Better Outcomes for Harvey Building Products

Reported Year
2024
“One of the measurables of our KPI’s is called units per person, or UPP,” said Harvey Building Products' Continuous Improvement Manager Matt Bouvier. “We were shooting for a KPI of 13, but the UPP was around 8-1/2 to 9. So we weren’t making the money as we hoped. We knew there was a lot of meat on the bone to go after, and looking at the line

The Marketing Strategies Collaborative Program Puts ABTech On A Clearer Path

Reported Year
2023
“My background is mechanical engineering,” said Ken Abbott, President of ABTech, Inc. “I am not a sales person, I am not a marketing person. I really did not understand the difference between sales and marketing.” So Ken put his faith in hiring a sales manager or marketing manager that unfortunately led them down the wrong path. Even contracting

CMMC Compliance Was Key for Micro-Precision Technologies, Inc.

Reported Year
2023
“Part of our market is the military market. More and more they are requiring CMMC compliance or at least demonstrating a path to CMMC compliance,” said Adrian Pyke, CEO of Micro-Precision Technologies. “It started to show up as requirements on some purchase orders and on specification they gave us. So we did it in response to their requirements or

Baron Machine Company Sees Writing On The Wall To Be CMMC Cybersecurity Compliant

Reported Year
2023
“A lot of our customers in the defense industry have made CMMC cybersecurity compliance a requirement,” said Jeremy Baron, President of Baron Machine Company. “I saw the writing on the wall and decided to make sure we were in the proper place when CMMC becomes enforced.” But now came the daunting task of finding an organization who could get them

Lean Training Enables Jaeger USA’s Manufacturing Process To Become More Efficient

Reported Year
2022
“Integrity is very important to us and quality is number 1 here at Jaeger,” said Wink Faulkner, CEO of Jaeger USA. “Jaeger is growing because of the focus we have applied to it.” Wink mentioned there are a series of processes and steps to manufacturing of what they call “tapes.” “The problem we were having was in the rewinding and slitting