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MEP Success Stories from New York

CITEC Provides Prospective Ward Lumber Managers with Leadership Training

Reported Year
2023
Becoming a “workplace of choice” is no longer optional for success. Ward Lumber, like virtually every other business, needed to find ways to reduce turnover on their team and attract new hires to their business. Solving these problems would also reduce the burden felt by all employees of being short-staffed. Ward Lumber believed that providing

When You Start to Clean Up and See the Results...It's Contagious

Reported Year
2023
ITAC completed an R&D tax credit for Aurora Lampworks. During the project, a common point of discussion focused on their space and layout. While Aurora Lampworks’ facility spans 7,500 square feet, they were experiencing space and efficiency issues due to the lengthy process involved with each project. Shipments are often sent from overseas in

Wolfspeed Technician Training Provides Help To New Employees

Reported Year
2023
Once Wolfspeed completes the new facility, the next step is to hire highly-skilled employees to operate it. The skills necessary to operate the plant are very specific to this facility and the type of equipment used. The challenge is that there are very few potential employees that currently have the specific skills needed and there is a strong

Quality Management System Implementation

Reported Year
2023
PCP needed to ensure their company had the proper processes in place to produce a consistent product and provide methods to monitor and improve quality and productivity. The owner of the company felt strongly that process control ensured quality, not final inspection. PCP had both a dedicated management team and an experienced core workforce

Indium achieves success with centralizing warehousing and purchasing.

Reported Year
2023
Due to growing sales, Indium’s Upstate New York factories needed additional production space. Valuable space in their factories was occupied by large quantities of packaging materials. Although many of the packaging materials were common to multiple factories, they were replenished by each individual factory, resulting in more inventory than was

How Lean Implementation Helped REELEX Decrease Waste and Improve Process Flow

Reported Year
2023
REELEX Packaging Solutions Inc. found itself on an upward trajectory in the spring of 2021 due to an increase in demand for the patented REELEX Machines. It was determined that the best course of action to manage this growth would be to utilize the benefits of value stream mapping to guide effective practices and processes for future demand, market

INTERNAL AUDITING SUPPORT

Reported Year
2023
The small company has been ISO 9001:2015 certified, with Insyte’s assistance, since 2016 but could not provide internal resources to conduct regular required audits of their quality management system (QMS). This inability to conduct internal audits, consequently, put their ISO certification, and some customer revenue, at risk.

B2B Marketing Approach for Small Business

Reported Year
2023
Vice President Jeff Durbin realized he was reliant on a small number of clients and wanted to build that number and diversify that base, specifically with regional clients. Durbin Machine North has been machining parts for a long time, and their shop has a solid reputation among their current clients; nurturing those relationships was already a

New Facility Layout

Reported Year
2023
The company opened a facility in the WNY area in 2020, operating out of a 4,000-square-foot warehouse in Tonawanda, NY. lnsyte Consulting, part of the New York MEP and the MEP National Network™, assisted in laying out that facility. Since then, the growth of the company forced management to consider expanding or relocating to a bigger facility. It