To advance Indiana's economic prosperity and quality of life.

Purdue University’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) center delivers comprehensive solutions to help you strengthen your local and global competitiveness by:

• assessing where your company stands today
• providing technical and business solutions
• helping you create successful partnerships
• keeping you learning through seminars and training programs

Listing of Products & Services

Green Enterprise Development

"Sustainable practices are as much about improving business performance as they are about being environmentally responsible — the two clearly go hand in hand."

- Melissa Fey, Sustainability Facilitator, Smith Brothers Furniture

NanCo Uniform Mfgr.

“As a result of our Lean training, we continue to make time- and money-saving changes every week due to employee, vendor, and networking contact suggestions.”

- Stacey Staggs, Owner/President, NanCo Uniform Mfgr.

Services Provided:

• Lean Manufacturing

Drug Plastics & Glass Co., Inc.

“With TAP, we have been able to make many major improvements in our energy cost savings. In one year, we were able to cut the energy cost in terms of kW-hr per pound of plastics by more than 10%, saving more than $100,000.”

- Hung Nguyen, Plant manager, Drug Plastics & Glass Co., Inc.

Services Provided:

• Energy Efficiency & Sustainability

TI Automotive

"The TAP Manufacturing Extension Partnership is a great resource for organizations to enhance their business and obtain bottom-line results....this is one of Indiana’s best-kept secrets."

- Lori Casiano, Plant Manager, TI Automotive

Services Provided:

• Energy Efficiency & Sustainability
• Lean Manufacturing
• Training Within Industry (TWI)

Red Gold

"Purdue is helping us invest in our company’s most valuable asset: our people. TAP training has educated and developed our employees in eliminating waste and creating ongoing improvements."

- Brian Reichart, Red Gold President and CEO

Services Provided:

• Lean Manufacturing

Green Enterprise Development

"Ultimately the sustainability of an organization is measured along its entire value chain. The supply chain organization must address the element of suppliers and sustainability or the enterprise must accept that their sustainability efforts really only scratch the surface."

- Bob Price, Director of Global Supply Chain Management, Kimball International

King Systems

"The TAP/MEP training program has helped accelerate King’s Continuous Improvement program. A sense of empowerment carried all the way to the shop floor, as the excitement level after training was high."

- Christie Anderson, SixSigma Coordinator, King Systems

Services Provided:

• Lean Manufacturing
• Six Sigma Green & Black Belt

Haynes International

"The collaboration with Purdue has provided us with the tools to identify and achieve our reduction goals. We have been extremely pleased with the level of support provided by the Purdue/TAP Energy Efficiency Services."

- Greg Morrow, Environmental Manager, Haynes International Inc.

Services Provided:

• Energy Efficiency & Sustainability

GrimmerSchmidt Compressors

"MEP consultants helped us choose the lean advanced manufacturing courses most relevant to optimizing our shop floor, which was our goal. Now we’re able to work with more efficiency."

- Pete Grimmer, President, GrimmerSchmidt Compressors, LLC

Services Provided:

• Lean Manufacturing

Thermafiber, Inc.

“Through the training, our team identified more than 75 ideas for new products and services. With the help of Purdue and the Eureka! Winning Ways training program, we focused our efforts on the top two ideas from the training session. “

- Austin T. Hess, Business Development Manager, Thermafiber, Inc.

Services Provided:

• Top Line Business Growth

Sports Licensed Division of the adidas Group

"Working with TAP/MEP and its established Training Within Industry program, we were able to train more of our employees in less time and more cost-effectively." - Jospeh Cripe, Vice President for Operations, Sports Licensed Division (SLD) of the adidas Group.

Services Provided:

• Training Within Industry (TWI)

General Sheet Metal Works, Inc.

“The TAP training I received took my career in an entirely different direction — I got a better job and a raise — and that transition was much easier because of TAP. I have an engineering background and I can use that knowledge in my new role as quality manager to look at quality from an engineering point of view.”

- Mike Bakehorn, President, American Stationery

Services Provided:

• Lean Manufacturing
• Quality Improvement