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BY: GEORGE SINGOS This year’s unique business challenges required manufacturers to be more flexible and efficient than ever before. As companies worked to rapidly adapt by shifting product offerings and implementing new safety practices, one factor emerged as a clear key...

https://www.the-center.org/Blog/October-2020/You’re-(Virtually)-Invited-Join-the-Integr8-Indust
Last modified - October 14, 2020

Rob Stauffer has been a Program Manager in The Center's Lean Business Solutions program for 18 years. He has trained and mentored Michigan companies in the entire portfolio of Lean Sigma strategies and methods specializing in financial analysis, costing, strategic planning, p...

https://www.the-center.org/About-The-Center/Our-Team/Lean-Team/Robert-S-Stauffer
Last modified - December 09, 2024

Rob Stauffer has been a Program Manager in The Center's Lean Business Solutions program for 18 years. He has trained and mentored Michigan companies in the entire portfolio of Lean Sigma strategies and methods specializing in financial analysis, costing, strategic planning, p...

https://www.the-center.org/About-The-Center/Our-Team/Food-Processing-Team/Robert-S-Stauffer
Last modified - December 09, 2024

We hope you have time to   have some Fun,       And enjoy the Great Outdoors    This Holiday Season.     We'll See you in    Best Wishes,    Since 1991, MMTC has assisted Michgan's small and medium-sized businesse...

https://www.the-center.org/Blog/December-2013/Happy-Holidays-from-MMTC
Last modified - June 04, 2019

Andy Nichols, Quality Program Manager at the Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center, discusses the history of one of the preeminent quality management philosophies, total quality management (TQM). Learn how it can help for profits and nonprofits become more effective and c...

https://www.the-center.org/Resources/News/A-Quality-Principle-Everything-You-Need-to-Know-a
Last modified - May 05, 2022

The Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center announced today plans to unveil their newly engineered lightweight aftermarket frames at the 2017 SEMA Show in Las Vegas, Nev., Oct. 31-Nov. 3, 2017. Show attendees will be the first to see models of the lightweight alternative fo...

https://www.the-center.org/Resources/News/The-Center-To-Unveil-New-Lightweight-Frame-for-Spe
Last modified - May 05, 2022

The Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center last week at SEMA showed off a model of a lightweight aftermarket frame which could provide specialty car designers and owners with what it called “an affordable, stiffer and safer car frame option.” Read the full article from rep...

https://www.the-center.org/Resources/News/Consultants,-researchers-develop-lighter,-stiffer,
Last modified - May 05, 2022

An innovative lightweight car frame was rolled out at the SEMA show a few weeks ago in Las Vegas by the Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center that could soon lead to investments in tooling and testing for an initial market of replica car buyers, but could be used on mass ...

https://www.the-center.org/Resources/News/Lightweight-Vehicle-Frame-Popularity-Leads-To-Fund
Last modified - May 05, 2022

Today an ever-growing range of industries are looking for higher performance materials that can minimize their costs, energy consumption and overall environmental footprint. As a result, lightweight metals, such as aluminum, magnesium and titanium, are increasingly being con...

https://www.the-center.org/Resources/News/Demand-Led-Innovation-Shapes-Lightweight-Metal-Tec
Last modified - May 02, 2022

One of the most frequently misunderstood and debated requirements of the ISO 9001:2015 requirements for Internal Audits (9.2.2) is the idea that auditors are ‘independent’ of the work being audited. It’s frequently taken that for  internal auditors to be independent of the w...

https://www.the-center.org/Resources/News/Maintaining-Independence-for-Internal-Audits
Last modified - May 02, 2022