When it comes to identifying and eliminating waste from your operations, cutting lead times and inventories and boosting productivity, capacity and cash flows, there is nothing like Lean. Lean can improve every process in your company from the manufacturing floor to the front office and put them on a path of continuous improvement. No one has helped more Wisconsin manufacturers successfully implement Lean than WMEP!

Experts estimate 80 percent of becoming a customer-focused business is culture-related. Without employee support, you can’t make many, if any, changes. Let WMEP help you change the culture in your organization and develop a customer-focused organization that sustains improvements.

Global competition, price pressures, maturing products, shrinking margins, and changing technology are common obstacles to growth. To adapt and grow, you need to find new opportunities that set you apart and make you a market leader. WMEP’s proven Growth Solutions & Strategic Business Development take you there.

For nearly a decade, WMEP has been helping optimize supply chains by assisting small-to-midsized manufacturers with performance improvements. Working with major OEMs, suppliers to OEM’s and their suppliers has helped us develop the nationally-recognized, innovative, results-focused supply chain solutions.

Manufacturers have been feeling the pressure of smaller, more frequent orders for more SKUs with shorter expected lead times, accompanied by increased raw materials and energy costs. They strive to meet higher customer expectations, and maintain dependable on-time delivery, without additional costs or resources. WMEP can help with proven HVLV tools and techniques that fit your specific needs.

Does everyone have a different way of doing things? Are you constantly hit with production and shipment delays? Are you solving problems only to have them occur again and again? Then you need to improve with WMEP’s Quality Systems.

Having problems with long lead times, poor cash flow, low profitability, increased customer complaints, excessive returns or low first pass yields? Do you spend more time firefighting than improving? Do you lack the hard data to support decision-making or gauge progress? For issues that spring from waste and variation, there’s no better solution than Lean Six Sigma.

Don’t miss next year’s Manufacturing Matters! on May 17, 2011 at the Midwest Airlines Center in Milwaukee.

Attend and gain real-world knowledge you can use. WMEP’s Lean experts present courses around the state providing information and strategies on Lean. Click here for schedules. For prices and registration, please contact the appropriate technical college.

WMEP and the Wisconsin Department of Commerce’s joint venture helps Wisconsin’s manufacturers establish their products in international markets. This alliance supports Global Engagement, a key attribute of Next Generation Manufacturing. Export Development Managers from the Wisconsin Department of Commerce can assist manufacturers to identify potential markets, to obtain detailed market assessments from foreign offices located Brazil, China, Canada, and Mexico, identify distribution channels and sales leads, and to understand exporting requirements.

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50 Manufacturers selected for the Wisconsin Profitable Sustainability Initiative
The state is investing $1.75 million through WMEP to help small and midsized manufacturers.

Manufacturing Matters! Excellence Panel Excerpts
Executives from Wisconsin award-winning manufacturers share their views

Don Peppers’ Thought-Provoking Insights
Startling statistics on how technological change can both challenge and promote business

Success Story: Dalco Metals