- Next Generation Manufacturing Services
- Customer Successes
- Advanced Talent Management
- Customer Focused Innovation
- Rock Energy Systems Heats Up the Market
- Bock Fires Up Growth
- Dutchland Plastics Corporation: Strategic Planning Promotes Growth & Efficiency
- HMA Fire Apparatus: 3P leads to triple-digit growth
- Lakeside® Manufacturing: Reduces Product Development time by 33%
- Medalcraft Mint: Grows business with Lean and Eureka!
- Extended Enterprise Management
- Global Engagement
- Sustainable Products and Process Development
- ACH Foam Technologies Finds Energy Savings
- AFW Reaps Big Savings
- Ball Corporation Saves with PSI
- Gordon Aluminum Saves Big with PSI
- Klondike packs savings into its operation
- QPI + PSI = Profit
- Quick Cable cuts waste and saves money
- Zoned Heating Pays for KCS
- RPW: Profitable Sustainability Saves $1 M
- Systemic Continuous Improvement
- J & R Machine China-proofs its business
- Sadoff & Rudoy Scraps Waste
- Centerline Machine: Lean = Triple-digit growth
- Dalco Metals: Lean Office Cuts Processing Time 50%
- Design Specialties, Inc.: Lean Reduces Inventory by 80%
- Gusmer Enterprises: Reduces Setup Time by 70%
- JARP Boosts Sales
- Marsh Electronics Surges with EBT
- TLX Technologies: Moving fast to capture market share
- Bachhuber's Strategic Planning Reveals Profit
- Berntsen Reaches Summit with Strategic Planning
- Events & Workshops
- Manufacturing Matters! 2014
- WMEP Events
- A Timely Update on the Affordable Care Act - Madison
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- ExporTech™ - Madison Kick-off
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- HACCP Certification One-Day Seminar
- INNOVATION = REVENUE One-day intensive workshop
- MSEC-NAMRC Conference
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- The WMEP announces new employees
WMEP’s mission is to “elevate Wisconsin manufacturing to be the best in the world,” and these manufacturers demonstrate how Wisconsin is leading the way in innovation, continuous improvement, supply chain management, sustainable practices and engaging a global market.
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TLX Technologies: Moving fast to capture market share
TLX Technologies, LLC got its start in 1996 out of the dining room of the house of Neil Karolek, the company’s president and founder. Nearly 17 years later, the Pewaukee manufacturer of customized electro-mechanical solenoid products has grown to have anticipated annual revenue of about $10 million.
The boost in business over the years caused TLX to outgrow its old facility in...
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QPI + PSI = Profit
Quality Packaging Inc. (QPI) was at a crossroads a few years ago when a key customer faced the loss of a critical consumer products account because QPI didn’t offer an environmentally friendly retail package.
QPI’s president Ken Wills drew upon his extensive knowledge of processes and materials for retail packaging to invent a new...
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Rock Energy Systems Heats Up the Market
After Rock Energy Systems, formerly Lanair Holdings LLC, purchased its largest competitor, it decided to move the manufacturing operations of the newly acquired business to Wisconsin from Pennsylvania.
With no experience in relocating a business, Rock Energy Systems turned to the Wisconsin Manufacturing...
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J & R Machine China-proofs its business
Intense competition from manufacturers in China nearly drove J&R Machine Inc. out of business, but company ownership and management realized in the nick of time that somewhat drastic changes needed to be made in order to save the company.
Founded in 1992, J&R got its start by manufacturing simple items such as bushings and...
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GenMet Creates A Culture of Success
GenMet Corp., a Mequon custom metal fabricator, first turned to the Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership nearly a decade ago to allow it to better compete in an increasingly global environment. “Manufacturing became globally competitive,” GenMet President Mary Isbister said. “We had to figure out how to transition ourselves into that global economy and how to compete.”
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Prolitec Knows the Sweet Smell of Success in Exporting
Prolitec Inc. has found the sweet smell of international success through the Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership’s ExporTech™ program.
Milwaukee-based Prolitec applies and develops airborne technology for infection control, odor...
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The WMEP opens Milwaukee office to great fanfare
National, state and local officials laud the WMEP
The Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership recently opened its new office in downtown Milwaukee in grand fashion, with national, state and local officials participating in a ceremony marking the event.
“We are just ecstatic to be here in Milwaukee,” Buckley...
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JARP Industries Boosts Sales
JARP Industries Inc. was introduced to WMEP in 2006 through the Accelerate Supplier Development program and since then has turned to WMEP for services ranging from value stream mapping to programs aimed at boosting its marketing efforts.
“WMEP has been a very valuable resource in helping us evolve,” JARP CEO Kevin Kraft said. “The...
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Gordon Aluminum Industries Success
Gordon Aluminum Industries, Inc.
Located in Schofield, Gordon Aluminum Industries, Inc. is one of the leading employers in Marathon County with 140 employees. The company is a full service aluminum extruder offering anodizing, powder coating, and fabrication services. Industries served by Gordon Aluminum include truck...
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KCS International saves big with zoned heating
The Company
KCS International, Inc. a major employer in Oconto County, builds yachts from 30 to 56 feet under the brand names of Cruisers Yachts and Rampage. When Bruce Allen, director of operations for KCS, heard about the Profitable Sustainability Initiative (PSI) pilot program from Steve...
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Ball Corporation Makes a Cost-Savings Change
The Company
Ball Corporation’s facility in DeForest manufactures metal cans in various sizes for Midwestern fruit and vegetable packers. This facility was the original site of the Oconomowoc Canning Company and today employs approximately 100 people.
Ball Corporation has a well-developed sustainability strategy with the goal of making the company a sustainable enterprise...
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Quick Cable cuts waste and saves money
The Company
Quick Cable, based in Franksville, Wisconsin, is a privately-owned company that develops, manufactures, and sells battery and electrical connectors, cable, tools and related products for commercial and industrial equipment. They are the leader in the North American market due to a strong focus on quality, innovation and customer service.
“Manufacturing processes...
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AFW Reaps Big Savings and Environmental Benefits
The Company
AFW Foundry, Inc. will not be trucking 1,920 tons of sand per year to the landfill as a result of its participation in the Wisconsin Profitable Sustainability Initiative (PSI). In addition, the company has achieved significant savings in landfill fees, transportation expenses and raw materials cost.
Established in 1953, Lannon-based AFW Foundry supplies non-...
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Klondike packs savings into its operation through PSI
The Company
Klondike Cheese has been producing award-winning cheese at the same location in Monroe since the late 1800’s. The family-owned company employs 80 people and is a major area employer.
The Buholzer family is focused on sustainability for financial reasons and also because of their concern for the environment. “We’re focused on sustainable practices to reduce the...
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ACH Foam Technologies Finds Energy Savings
ACH Foam Technologies Finds Energy Savings in Heat Recovery Project
For more than four decades, ACH Foam Technologies in Fond du Lac has been an industry leader in providing expanded polystyrene (EPS) products for the construction, geotechnical and packaging industries. The company’s focus on sustainability is reflected in...
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Lanair focus on marketing, employee culture pays big dividends
Lanair Focus on Marketing and Employee Culture Pays Big Dividends
In October of 2009 when Barry Brandt purchased the family-owned and operated Lanair Products, LLC of Janesville, he knew he had a winner. The popularity of the company’s waste oil -fired heaters was growing. More and more state service stations were using the heaters to convert used motor oil into heat...
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Sadoff & Rudoy Scraps Waste & Gets Lean
Goal: Increase production by 30%
Sadoff & Rudoy Industries LLP (SRI) has been at the leading edge of its industry – recycling scrap metal – since its founding in 1947. The family-owned company became known for its innovations in handling and processing scrap, and by 2005, SRI had six scrap metal processing operations in Wisconsin and one in Nebraska employing a total of more than...
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Marsh Electronics Surges with Enterprise Business Transformation
Enterprise Business Transformation (EBT) prepares Marsh Electronics for post-recession growth
In early 2009, Marsh Electronics of Milwaukee was feeling the full effects of the recession. Like many distributors and assembly firms, Marsh Electronics went in survival mode – instituting layoffs, salary and benefit reductions and a range of other cost-...
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Bock Rethinks Its Business and Fires Up Growth
Bock Fires Up Growth with Strategic Repositioning
For 77 years, Bock Water Heaters Inc., has thrived as an employee-owned company with plants in Princeton (subsidiary, Tank Technology, Inc.) and Madison and employs 90. Bock has manufactured branded, oil-fired water heaters for homes. “We are the market leader in that niche and we’ve enjoyed that for many years,” said Terry Mullen, Bock...
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Strategic Planning Sets Course for Bachhuber
Strategic Business Planning and Lean Reveal ProfitBachhuber Manufacturing Corp., a Mayville company employing 25, is a contract manufacturer and maker of press automation equipment.
The Issue
They wanted to grow their press...
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Berntsen Reaches New Summit with Strategic Planning
Berntsen International Reaches New SummitAt the summit of Mount McKinley, there’s a survey marker made by Berntsen International. Placed there by an 8-man expedition team in June 1989, the brass disk marks the summit’s true elevation, 20,320 feet above sea...
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HMA Fire Apparatus: 3P leads to triple-digit growth
Using 3P for Product Development Results in PROFITSound business advice from WMEP and a commitment to Lean result in rapid growth for HMA Fire Apparatus
In 2006, Rory Groonwald,...
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Gusmer Enterprises: Reduces Setup Time by 70%
Gusmer Enterprises Saves with Quick ChangeoverA four-day set-up reduction blitz generates lasting benefit
Gusmer Enterprises, a third generation family-owned business, operates...
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Fox Valley Metal Tech: Lean achieves 64% reduction in cycle time
Fox Valley Metal Tech Accelerates Turn-around Time 64%John West, president of Fox Valley Metal Tech, was enthusiastic when his customer, a major defense contractor, asked him to participate in WMEP’s...
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Design Specialties, Inc.: Lean Reduces Inventory by 80%
Design Specialties Wins with Innovative PartnershipsA strategy for growth focused on diversifying its customer base
The employees of Design Specialties, Inc., a Milwaukee-based...
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Dutchland Plastics Corporation: Strategic Planning Promotes Growth & Efficiency
Dutchland Plastics Spurs GrowthStrategic planning builds a solid foundation for growth
Dutchland Plastics Corporation, based in Oostburg, Wisconsin, was established in 1967 and...
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Lakeside® Manufacturing Reduces Product Development time by 33%
Lakeside Develops Winning Ideas More than 60 years ago, Lakeside Manufacturing, Inc., introduced the first stainless steel cart to the Foodservice Industry. Since that time, Lakeside has taken...
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Medalcraft Mint Grows business with Lean and Eureka!
Medalcraft Mint Diversifies SalesMedalcraft Mint uses Eureka! Winning Ways to find new customers
In 2007, when Jerry Moran bought The Medalcraft Mint, a private mint founded in...
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Harvard Corporation: Exports & Lean Lead to Growth
Harvard Corporation taps WMEP to gain new customersCompany is positioned to grow through exporting and serving customers with sustainability goals
Founded in 1973, Harvard Corporation is a...
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Alpha Source, Inc.: Training Increased Sales 20%
Alpha Source's Talent for GrowthStrong customer focus and empowered employees produce strong results
Norine Carlson-Weber has always had a passion for excellence. After being laid off...
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DeCrane Aircraft Seating Company: Lean Culture Reduces Inventory by $3.5 M
DeCrane Aircraft Seating Transforms Through LeanLean Culture increases revenue by strengthening bonds with customers and suppliers
A telephone sitting on a desk tucked away in a...
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Reliable Plating Works: Profitable Sustainability Saves $1 M
Reliable Plating Works Saves $1M with Lean & GreenProfitable Sustainability - a business strategy that pays.
“Green isn’t a just a trend or industry buzzword. It’s a...
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Centerline Machine: Lean Culture = Triple-digit growth
Centerline Machine Drives Growth with LeanIn 1996 Charlie Leiby started Centerline Machine in his garage in Waupaca with one milling machine and a vision to build his own company. His first customers...
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Dalco Metals: Lean Office Cuts Processing Time 50%
Dalco Metals Gets Leaner with 5SSustaining the Lean journey produces strong results
Since 1973, family owned Dalco Metals of Walworth has been a premier supplier of flat-rolled...






















