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Reduce Risk and Secure Your Government Contracts If you’re in the Department of Defense (DoD) supply chain, you may be subject to Defense Acquisition Regulations System (DFARS) / NIST SP 800-171 requirements. DFARS compliance is required of any companies that,...
Leading Edge R&D Resources at Your Fingertips Whether you need help integrating new technology or are interested in locating or developing new technology to move your business forward, Polaris MEP can help. Polaris MEP provides hands-on technical and business...
Training Resources and Funding Within Reach With the right skills, your team can meet the requirements of an ever-shifting marketplace. As the Manufacturing Sector Workforce Intermediary for Real Jobs RI, Polaris MEP is poised to address your company’s workforce needs...
January 17, 2021 was International Mentoring Day. Every member of the Polaris MEP team has benefitted from working with mentors over the years. And, we see the enormous difference mentorship makes in the Rhode Island manufacturing community. Polaris MEP feels...
By MEP National Network Partner Andy Nichols, Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center A few weeks ago, we posted a blog dissecting the various requirements of ISO 9001:2015 related to the “control of documented information” and addressed how cyberattacks can affect...
By Erin Read "There are resources out there to help maintain worker safety and manufacturing productivity despite COVID-19 cases. For manufacturers who haven’t reached out for a Polaris MEP COVID Facilities Assessment yet, the coming of cold weather may be just the...
With a sizeable unemployment pool and a renewed push to reshore production, Rhode Island is offering tax credits, incentives, and manufacturing training and jobs placement programs. Manufacturers can leverage these resources to upskill the labor pool and fill open...
In my last post, I told the story of stumbling across a methodology called Training Within Industry (TWI) which routinely showed 25 - 50% reductions in manufacturing training times when the Job Instruction method was implemented. I knew that if I could achieve these...