Webinars, How-To Videos

Lean Tip – Using the 4 M’s to Start Standardizing!

In this Lean Tip video, Project Manager Nathan Bonds highlights how standardization can help your company be more predictable and productive. He’ll even show you how standardization is already improving your life, without you even knowing it! If you would like to...

Employment Law Compliance – What’s Changing, and What RI Manufacturers Can Do About It

Polaris MEP Programs Manager Kayla Viveiros interviewed Foley & Foley, experts in employment law, to discuss how human resources has become more and more about preventing litigation. Foley & Foley's Wendy Hansen talks about which changes RI manufacturers...

3D Scanning – 2 Smart Industrial Applications

By integrating 3D scanning into your quality reporting/measurement or taking advantage of the technology to reverse engineer a part, you can speed up your workflow, improve quality and improve customer satisfaction. 3D scanning technology offers very real benefits to...

Finding Funding for Growth & Transformation Webinar Recording

Do your priorities for 2022 or beyond include investing in new technology, equipment, automation, and/or upgrades to property or facilities? If so, you’ve got company -- nearly 50% of Rhode Island manufacturers responding to our State of Manufacturing reported these...

3D Scanning to Facility Layout with Functional 3D

3D scanning used to be something for science fiction. However, the technology is quite real and available and offers very real benefits to small and medium-sized manufacturers. Polaris MEP has teamed up with 3D scanning specialist Christopher Wilczewski for a series...

Strategies and Funding to Develop and Retain Employees in a Tight Labor Market

Manufacturers are currently challenged by a labor shortage (too few skilled candidates coming into the pipeline), the COVID pandemic's impact on employees and an aging workforce. All of this makes it even more important to retain manufacturing employees. But how?...

Lean Tip – Coming Down on DOWNTIME

In the latest “Lean Tip of the Week” video Nathan outlines a scenario that’s pretty common – the O in DOWNTIME, Overproduction. The key, he says, is to take the advice of G.I. Joe – “knowing, is half the battle.” Knowing the root cause of Waste makes it possible to...

The Essentials of Exporting

Exporting is a “foreign process” to many, so it’s natural to wonder if exporting is right for your company, if you are ready to “go global” and how to get started. In this webinar, international trade consultant/trainer Linda Woulfe offers an overview of the benefits...