Manufacturing

Boosting manufacturing competitiveness through identification of improvement opportunities and streamlined processes.

Purdue Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) - leverages resources in both the public and private sectors to identify areas of improvement, streamline processes, and ultimately increase competitiveness.

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Led by Purdue University in partnership with Ivy Tech Community College and Vincennes University, the Indiana Next Generation Manufacturing Competitiveness Center (IN-MaC) aims to attract, retain and grow high-value manufacturing industries in Indiana.  Purdue MEP oversees IN-MaC's Technology Adoption Program, working with more than 20 companies throughout the state to develop needed process-technology improvements.  For one such company, Jeco Plastic Products of Plainfield, Ind., those improvements resulted in orders of more than $110,000 in tooling and $150,000 in parts that previously would have been outsourced to China, as well as growth projections for the year of three to five times that amount.

"Purdue/IN-MaC provided us with technological tools of which we formerly knew nothing. As a result, we developed completely novel improvements on existing process technology."

- Craig Carson, CEO, Jeco Plastic Products, Plainfield, Ind.