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MEP Success Stories from New Hampshire

Compliance With NIST 800-171 Cybersecurity Ensures Growth for JMK, Inc.

Reported Year
2022
“We have a number of military customers but at the time they were not yet pushing NIST 800-171 cybersecurity compliance to their suppliers,” said Jim Kennedy, President of JMK, Inc. “It was our IT company who had the foresight to see what was coming from the military and they advocated for compliance.” Around the same time JMK had a network

Early Adoption Of NIST 800-171 Allows AeroDynamics To Get Ahead of the Curve

Reported Year
2021
AeroDynamics had the foresight to realize NIST 800-171 compliance would be trickling down to them. “We wanted to get ahead of the curve to ensure our business with the DOD and the primes would not be interrupted,” said Emerson Bilodeau, Director of Quality and Engineering for AeroDynamics. “We also wanted a way to get ahead of our competitors with

TDMI Gives Orion Entrance Control the Market Research to Grow

Reported Year
2021
Orion partnered with another company to develop a product using presence sensing radar technology that will work in many real world applications. One of those applications was discrete weapons detection. “But we needed a framework on how to go about researching this opportunity and turn it into a viable product,” said Stephen Caroselli, CEO and

Filtrine Manufacturing Company Embraces Lean to Ensure Customer Satisfaction

Reported Year
2021
“The major issue that had been getting more difficult for us over the last 15 years was, customers wanted things faster,” said Turner Hansel, President of Filtrine. “So we looked into our processes to see where we can cut down our time. We found out engineering was holding things up.” Filtrine. needed to cut 2 weeks out of engineering but did not

Lean Training and Implementation Helped Pleasant View Gardens Grow More Than Just Plants

Reported Year
2021
“We looked at our operation as if it was a manufacturing facility rather than greenhouse,” said Mike Goyette, Operations Manager for Pleasant View Gardens. “So out of necessity to improve our operating margin, we needed to look at how we do our work more efficiently and more effectively with better balance.” In order to improve their operating

Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing Training Gives MuShield Company a Competitive Edge

Reported Year
2020
“We were looking to increase our business,” said Ed Nordengren, Operation Manager for MuShield. “That led to us getting more inquiries from the aerospace and defense industries.” Those inquiries meant MuShield was being sent more complex, detailed drawings where Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T), a system for defining and communicating

Going Through the NIST 800-171 Cybersecurity Requirements Allowed Patriot Foundry & Castings to Continue Working for DoD Contractors

Reported Year
2020
“We now do a fair amount of aerospace work for the U.S. Department of Defense,” said Chris Leuteritz, Owner/Manager of Patriot Foundry & Castings. “But back in 2018 the amount of aerospace work we did was pretty light. We knew New England had quite a few aerospace companies, so we saw an opportunity to grow that segment of our business.” Around

NIST 800-171 Compliance Allowed Tech Resources, Inc. To Continue Their Work Uninterrupted With The U.S. Department of Defense

Reported Year
2020
"All our work is for the DOD,” said Gary Andrews, President of Tech Resources, Inc. “So when we heard that the DOD’s NIST 800-171 cybersecurity requirements would be flowing down to their contractors in the near future, we wanted to get ahead of it in order to meet those requirements and not have any interruptions in our business with them.” Tech