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RI Manufacturing Boot Camp Launched to Fill Skills Gap
No cost program created to provide RI manufacturers with newly trained workforce PROVIDENCE, RI – Polaris MEP (Manufacturing Extension Partnership), a division of the University of Rhode Island Research Foundation, has joined forces with Rhode Island Manufacturers...
Challenge Forecasting for Very Small Manufacturers
Recently there has been an increasing appetite for information and results around working with the smallest manufacturers. Not just the generally defined small manufacturer with under 500 employees, but the very small manufacturers with under 20 employees. MEP is...
Momentum in Manufacturing
Do you feel the rising energy in Rhode Island’s manufacturing community these days? It springs from a quiet confidence that companies have about their future based on projected or recently won contracts. Even though these good signs haven’t hit the state or federal...
Polaris MEP Assisting RI Manufacturers with ISO 9001:2015 Revision
This Revision Requires Managing Risk All the Way From Suppliers to Customers PROVIDENCE, RI – Area manufacturers may soon begin scrambling to comply with last week’s release of latest revision of the ISO 9001 Quality Management System (QMS), ISO 9001:2015. Now that...
Polaris MEP’s Rocket Program Rolls On with All Access Bus Tour of Manufacturers
Governor Proclaims Manufacturing Week RI at the Event PROVIDENCE, RI – Polaris MEP (Manufacturing Extension Partnership), a division of the URI Research Foundation, continues its roll out of the Rocket Program introduced last month with the launch of their All Access...
Polaris MEP Announces Rocket Program for Rhode Island Manufacturers
New Program Lifts Off with a State-Funded Mission to Generate Top Line Growth and Jobs Providence, R.I. – Polaris MEP (Manufacturing Extension Partnership), a division of the URI Research Foundation, is announcing its latest move to lift Rhode Island’s manufacturers...
Supply Chains – Powering U.S. Manufacturing
Manufacturing Supply Chains [Original post by Mark Schmit, NIST MEP National Accounts Manager] The future success of any manufacturing company relies upon its ability to deliver the right product at the right time with the right quantity at the right price. Products...
Manufacturing in R.I., Chapter 6: Manufacturing Defense Growth
Manufacturing has taken a positive turn with signals that orders and production are poised to continue the trend upward. Small and large companies are ramping up hiring, training and operations activity, while support from the new state administration has also been...
Polaris MEP Featured on NBC 10 Business Lunch
Polaris MEP Center Director Christian Cowan had an opportunity to discuss Rhode Island manufacturing during a the Business Lunch segment of the NBC 10 WJAR noon news broadcast with anchor Frank Coletta.The two discussed the Polaris MEP program offering, the upcoming...
Mattiello: Polaris funding ‘more likely’
House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello, D-Cranston, told 450 people at the Rhode Island Manufacturers Association annual meeting on Wednesday that a requested $750,000 appropriation for the Polaris Manufacturing Extension Partnership is “probably more likely to occur” in...
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