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MEP Success Stories from Ohio

Coaching and Consulting Services Boost Sales and Create Jobs

Reported Year
2025
The sales leader at Cooper Enterprises contacted MAGNET for assistance in enhancing their sales skills to boost revenue. The company recently hired a new inside sales representative who needed training to perform their role effectively. This inside sales representative was responsible for engaging with 45 targeted prospective customers for Cooper’s

Growth Acceleration Platform Powered by Scaling Up

Reported Year
2025
Troy Chemical partnered with MAGNET to develop and execute a comprehensive long-term strategic plan aimed at achieving the ambitious growth goals set by the company’s new owners, Ted and Beth Bunton.

Continuous Improvement Supports Root Cause Problem Solving

Reported Year
2025
Hynes has previously worked with MAGNET on continuous improvement activities. They reached out to MAGNET for support with root cause problem solving training. Their goal was to enhance their skills in this critical quality tool across the organization.

Operations Training Boosts Production Capacity

Reported Year
2025
Hometown Apparel needed to both increase production capacity and fully produce all the screen-printed apparel in-house. They purchased and installed the necessary equipment but still required help training employees to operate the new machines.

Partnering with CIFT Leads to Improved Efficiency and Product Quality

Reported Year
2025
To improve process efficiency and product quality, Rudolph partnered with CIFT in 2021 to implement an AI-powered predictive analysis model. However, it was quickly found that Rudolph's manual data collection systems were neither fast nor consistent enough to support the ongoing operation of the model. Rudolph needed a reliable, quick, and accurate

Ohio MEP Provides Expert Support to Boost Business Growth and Enhance Company Performance

Reported Year
2025
Ralston Instruments experienced rapid growth and faced rising demand for more complex, high-mix, low-volume products. As their product lines expanded to include more advanced electronic and digital calibration tools, they faced challenges managing their distribution network, with issues in sales team growth, production management, and capacity

Opportunities for Improvement

Reported Year
2024
The purpose of this project was to provide OFCO with a Lean assessment. The assessment gave OFCO a clear understanding of where opportunities existed to improve operational efficiencies and develop a roadmap for improvement.

Improvement Activities

Reported Year
2024
With assistance from MAGNET, part of the Ohio MEP and the MEP National Network™, KAPCO has implemented lean continuous improvement initiatives aimed at enhancing throughput and minimizing downtime. The project focused on several key areas, including changeover reduction events on critical machines, waste elimination studies on essential processes

Basic ESL Training

Reported Year
2024
With a large number of employees speaking only Spanish, LC's few bilingual staff were experiencing the significant burden of providing translation. Despite supervisors using Google translate on their phones, communication was challenging and LC contacted the MEP at Columbus State, part of the Ohio MEP and the MEP National Network™, to provide basic
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