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Providence Business News: RI Manufacturers are “Stronger, Eager to Grow”
The Providence Business News 2021 "Stuff" special issue features insights from Polaris MEP Center Director Kathie Mahoney, leading manufacturers Amerisewn and Bradford Soap Works, and Rhode Island Manufacturers Association Executive Director Dave Chenevert, among...
Tried-and-True Tips for Food Safety
September is National Food Safety Education Month. While food producers must practice safe food handling throughout the year, this is a good time to re-focus your team on the importance of a food safety culture. Polaris MEP asked three experienced Rhode Island food...
Providence Business News: Polaris MEP offers 2-day, online inventory-management course for manufacturers
Polaris MEP will offer an online inventory-management course designed to help manufacturers better measure and control inventory to improve their bottom line. Managers, buyers and purchasers, production staff, accounting and finance staff, and distribution and...
Why a Food Safety Culture Is Good Business for RI Food Manufacturers
By Dileep Thatte, co-lead of NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) National Network Food Initiative Polaris MEP is the Rhode Island Center for the MEP National NetworkTM, whose mission it is to strengthen and empower small and medium-sized manufacturing...
Polaris MEP Awarded America Works Mini-Grant for High School Virtual Reality (VR) Training
Providence, RI – September 20, 2021 – To encourage exploration of manufacturing careers, Polaris MEP is launching a Virtual Reality pilot program funded by a “mini-grant” from America Works. America Works is a national initiative coordinating the manufacturing...
Polaris MEP Adds Specialists to Meet Rhode Island Manufacturing Workforce Challenges
Providence, RI – September 7, 2021 – As more Rhode Island manufacturers report struggles to find and recruit workers, Polaris MEP is staffing up to help them meet the challenge. Aarin B. Clemons joins the team as Workforce Coordinator while Andrea (Annie) Unger steps...
Manufacturing Pain Points
When I meet with Rhode Island companies, one of the questions I ask is: “What are your biggest pain points right now?” Inevitably the top two manufacturing pain points are workforce and supply chain. (I asked that question of Kevin Fuoroli of Herrick & White, seen...
An Additive Manufacturing Guide for RI Manufacturers (Part 2)
By Gregg Profozich, Director, Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, California Manufacturing Technology Consulting (CMTC) Click here to read part 1 of this blog series, a "go-to" additive manufacturing guide. In our last post we explored Additive Manufacturing, also...
Is Additive Manufacturing Right for You? A Go-To Guide (Part 1)
By Gregg Profozich, Director, Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, California Manufacturing Technology Consulting (CMTC) Looking for an additive manufacturing guide that can tell you if this technology is right for your Rhode Island manufacturing business? In this...
Day by Day by Manufacturing Day
Manufacturing is dead last among career choices for Americans between ages 18 and 24. That's what a report from Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute shows. Is it any wonder that despite US manufacturing activity hitting a 37-year high this past spring, half a...
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