Manufacturing Extension Partnership, or MEP, is a national network of not-for-profit  centers that help small- and medium-sized manufacturers improve efficiency and bottom line results.

(Alliance Scale Inc.: Canton, MA) --A compact moisture analyzer that rapidly and uniformly dries a sample, performs automatic test measurements with high repeatability, and has an integral database is available from Alliance Scale Inc. 

(EtQ Inc.: Farmingdale, NY) -- EtQ Inc. has announced enhanced features in the latest release of its web-based enterprise system for quality, compliance, and environmental health and safety management, Reliance 6.2. 

Organizations have gained much in process improvement from implementing lean practices and Six Sigma projects. However, these efforts did not prevent our financial crisis from occurring.

(Dyadem: Toronto, Canada) -- Dyadem recently upgraded its Stature enterprise risk management platform. Stature 4.0 will enable Dyadem’s customers to make more informed and strategic decisions about the production processes and products they manage.

(New Mexico MEP: Albuquerque, NM) -- After enrolling its employees in New Mexico's Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Lean Culture and Leadership program, Sennheiser raised its 2008 sales by $8 million, improved productivity by 28 percent, and experienced other significant improvements in

(LEI: Cambridge, MA) -- Before offshoring work to low-wage countries, senior managers should use “lean math” to calculate the true total cost of relocating, according to management expert James P. Womack, Ph.D., founder and chairman of the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI). 

This is an expanded version of an article that Balestracci wrote for Quality Digest in December 2007. 
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(Strategic Vision: San Diego) -- Volkswagen of America and Ford Motor Co. were recently announced as full-line corporate leaders in Strategic Vision Inc.’s (SVI) Total Quality Index (TQI).