Results

Our clients continue working with us because our only focus is on creating positive results. Over the past 20 years, we’ve helped more than 1,200 manufacturers across our 12-county region significantly reduce their costs while improving profitability and increasing revenue.

Both our state and federal stakeholders provide our funding based on the positive impacts our work generates with our clients. These impacts are based on established metrics, which include cost reduction, sales increase, investments made, and job creation and retention.

Every year, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology collects and evaluates the impact we have made with our clients. The record shows that, in 2007 alone, our work in southwestern Pennsylvania was responsible for:

• $113 million in sales increases
• $271 million in sales retention
• $ 16 million in cost savings
• $ 18 million in investments
• 887 jobs created or retained

Source: NIST/MEP client impact survey results

Clients benefit not only from our consulting and training services, but also from our financial programs and the assistance we provide to fund projects through various grant resources including WEDnet, EMSIP (Electronics Manufacturing/Service Industry Partnership), the Innovation Adoption Grant Fund and others.

In addition to the input we get from the NIST survey results, we continually talk with clients about how our work is impacting their company, their employees and their results. We are grateful that they are willing to share the details of their projects with the public so other manufacturers can increase their understanding of the types of results we are able to produce by working with their employees.

To find out how manufacturers like yourself gain real marketplace advantages by working with us, take a look at these case studies below: