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Lean Is A “Game-Changer,” Shortening Furniture Production Time From Days to Hours

Lean Is A “Game-Changer,” Shortening Furniture Production Time From Days to Hours

Dec 12, 2024 | Lean Manufacturing, Polaris MEP, Quality Management Systems, Results

Company Profile Lancelot Pinnock struggled with a common parenting challenge: his son was small, the kitchen countertops tall. He wanted to do more than just juggle the toddler and the sink. An engineer by trade, Lancelot used his skills to design a unique, foldable...
Elevate Your Workforce: Job Quality Toolkit Infosession

Elevate Your Workforce: Job Quality Toolkit Infosession

Mar 28, 2024 | Growth & Strategy, Polaris MEP, Quality Management Systems, Videos

Maximize Productivity & Retention: Explore the Job Quality Toolkit! Polaris MEP is your gateway to a national network of Manufacturing Extension Partnership centers (MEPs), dedicated to bringing cutting-edge tools and best practices from across the country to...
Launching into Technology: How working with NASA can help your business!

Launching into Technology: How working with NASA can help your business!

Mar 25, 2024 | Growth & Strategy, Polaris MEP, Quality Management Systems, Videos

Blast off into innovation with access to NASA’s technology! Polaris MEP is proud to have signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA, which makes it easier to bring the NASA Tech Transfer program and its benefits directly to our Rhode Island Manufacturing community. In...
Measuring Customer Satisfaction for Manufacturing Competitiveness

Measuring Customer Satisfaction for Manufacturing Competitiveness

Feb 23, 2024 | Growth & Strategy, Polaris MEP, Quality Management Systems, Videos

Many Quality standards require some degree of measuring customer satisfaction, including ISO 9001, AS9100D and ISO 13485. ALL manufacturers looking to improve competitiveness and profitability can benefit from collecting and acting on customer feedback. Polaris MEP...
American Tool Company Enjoys Benefits of ISO + Lean with Help From Polaris MEP

American Tool Company Enjoys Benefits of ISO + Lean with Help From Polaris MEP

Oct 31, 2023 | Lean Manufacturing, Polaris MEP, Quality Management Systems, Results

Company Profile Phil McCally was 10 years old in 1985 when his family purchased Lincoln, RI-based American Tool Company (ATC), a quality machining company with demonstrated expertise in turning, milling and drilling. Originally founded in 1918, ATC has produced...

Are You Asking the Right Questions with Your Quality Audits?

Jun 21, 2023 | Blog, Polaris MEP, Quality Management Systems

When it’s time to perform internal quality audits for our manufacturing businesses, we know there’s more work than just a document review – we must ask questions of our employees to be sure that we’re doing what we say we do. What does that conversation look like?...
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