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UMass Core Facilities Summit
Zoom
Join us on Tuesday, November 9th from 3-5:00 as we discuss the University of Massachusetts Core Facilities and explore how companies may gain access them. We will introduce you to the capabilities of our 90 core research facilities across our five campuses, which offer a wide range of services to the research community, including cutting-edge technologies, high-end instrumentation and technical support for basic, translational, and clinical research.
Two panels of facility directors and users will provide information specific to the University core’s unique offerings including new equipment and services. Kenn Turner will speak to the economic development and investment dedicated to supporting the growth and advancement of the life sciences in Massachusetts.
We are delighted to announce that Kenneth L. Turner, President and CEO of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, will be the keynote speaker for the UMass Core Facilities Summit.
Developing Employees with Online Training – ToolingU Info Session
ZoomJoin MassMEP and ToolingU for this hour-long information session introducing Tooling U-SME and the online course offerings, helping advance the next generation by supporting your organizational effectiveness with an expert team of skilled employees through employee development.
Key Takeaways:
- Take your training to the next level with Tooling U-SME.
- Tap into the highest level of expertise in workforce development for your training needs.
- Tooling U-SME works onsite with your human resources, management, and front-line team members to develop a business case for a training and development program, determine gaps in performance, and build a training strategy that delivers measurable ROI.
Automated Production Intelligence: Get deep insights into your factory operations with no operator input
Automated production intelligence from Datanomix is the evolution of production monitoring, offering deeper insights without the need for any operator input. By simply connecting to your CNC machines, Datanomix collects and analyzes the data in real-time, and uses machine learning to provide information on machine utilization, cycle times, parts per hour, and machine alarms in dashboards your operators use to understand what’s happening on their machines right now. And, over time, Datanomix unveils insights into total factory performance, allowing management to make better decisions around job costing, hiring, and capital expenditures.
In this session, attendees will learn:
- Why "no operator input” is essential to effective next-generation product intelligence systems – and to future-proof your factory
- How Datanomix provides a window into today’s production in real time, and deep insights into overall factory trends over time
- How pre-built reports and visuals lead to better communication and to deploying resources where they are needed right now
- The best way to start the day off right – the morning Coffee Cup report, an executive summary of the previous day’s production
Celebrate the Holidays with WiM Massachusetts
Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation 154 Moody Street, Waltham, United StatesWiM Massachusetts invites you to our annual Holiday Party at the Charles River Museum. The festivities will include a tour of the museum and remarks from Bruce Hamilton, President, Greater Boston Manufacturing Partnership. Attendees will enjoy food from Domenic's Deli, an infamous local spot!
Cyber Security: What You Need to Know
"Cyber Security is an important aspect for all small businesses. This webinar will review the basics and requirements of small businesses and customer privacy.
Presented by Walter Manninen, Senior Business Advisor and Financial Specialist of the Massachusetts Small Business Development Center Northeast Regional Office."
Is Your Business Properly Insured?
Your small business risks determine the type of insurance policies you need. Your insurance needs will depend on the specific characteristics of your small business. Similar businesses share similar risks, it's helpful to explore insurance coverage recommendations by industry. This workshop will expose you to the different types of small business insurances. Not all insurance policies will be required for your business. This workshop will explore the many different types of insurance policies and their benefits. Your insurance agent is one of the members of your team.
The speaker will be Christopher Mooney, Business Development Licensed Broker with Sterling Insurance Agency, Inc.
Securing the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Cybersecurity and Manufacturing
Artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, smart sensors and cloud computing are driving today's cutting-edge manufacturing and industrial processes. IT security, integrity and reliability play an integral role in the success of advanced manufacturing. Hear from IT leaders, industry experts and manufacturers about strategies on security, threats, planning, testing and compliance that meet at the intersection of manufacturing and cybersecurity.
Adaptive Control and Monitoring, a solution to reduce cycle time and increase tool life during the manufacturing process.
Adaptive Control and Monitoring allows for the adjustment of the feed rate, in real time, based on the current cutting conditions. To improve the tool life, reduce the feed when entering the material for every pass without any changes to the program. All while constantly monitoring production to detect overload and broken tools.
A software based solution to:
¥ Reduce machine cycle times
¥ Improve tool life
¥ Enable lights out manufacturing
Target Audience: Machine Builders, Retrofitters, End Users
Presenter: Stephen Fruehe, Pre-Sales Engineer, Siemens
The Secret to Improving Your Leadership… Really
Zoom
Why do so few leadership improvement efforts produce the results that leaders and business sponsors want? What is in the way? Through decades of working with manufacturers to help them improve their companies and leadership, we’ve discovered that there are five common obstacles to leadership improvement that must be overcome in order to achieve the desired results.
We’ve also developed a process that will help any organization improve their leaders – and not just a little improvement, but the "who are you and what have you done with my old leader” type of improvement that we’re all after in our development efforts.
Join Keith Gammill from the Arkansas Manufacturing Extension Partnership as he discusses:
1. The five common obstacles to leadership improvement and a methodology to overcome them
2. The importance of vision and what it does for your leadership
3. How to apply the Toyota Kata improvement methodology to leadership improvement
4. Why so many confuse management for leadership and why this matters
5. The Transformational Leadership Improvement process through the lens of a frontline leader
6. How to improve your workplace resilience
The MEP National Network will host this workforce webinar with Quality Digest.
For more information, email [email protected].
MMAP Information Session
Zoom
Massachusetts Technology Collaborative ("Mass Tech Collaborative” or "MassTech”), on behalf of the Center for Advanced Manufacturing ("CAM") is issuing this Request for Proposals for state cost share to support manufacturing projects (Solicitation No.2022-CAM-03) (the "Solicitation” or "Solicitation”) from qualified manufacturers ("Respondents”) located within the Commonwealth’s borders, as part of the state’s on-going commitment to the manufacturing industry. Respondents will be competing against each other for funds dedicated to manufacturing expansion grants to accelerate company growth. The submissions of all Respondents shall be compared and evaluated pursuant to the evaluation criteria set forth in this Solicitation.
The Massachusetts Manufacturing Accelerate Program ("MMAP”) provides capital cost share up to $250,000 for projects located within the Commonwealth’s borders, as part of the state’s on-going commitment to the manufacturing industry.
The program aims to help Massachusetts-based small to medium sized manufacturers prepare their businesses to meet the demands of Industry 4.0 and the manufacturing of new technologies and innovations that align with key industries in the Commonwealth, including semiconductor, defense and aerospace, battery technologies and additive manufacturing.
The MMAP program:
- Provides CAPITAL: Through necessary capital equipment purchases, a manufacturer will have access to new supply chain connections, new opportunities, and growth.
- Creates PARTNERSHIPS: This program aims to make connections between manufacturers and non-profit partners to help build an ecosystem of support for our manufacturers to collaborate and rely on. These partnerships will provide assistance through technical support, workforce development support, business connections, or other means of assistance, depending on the partner, to help manufacturers drive efficiencies and scale their business.
It is a requirement that a company collaborate with a non-profit, academic or quasi state agency partner to receive funding. Non-profit partners include academic institutions of higher learning (except for state academic institutions), or a non-profit such as Mass Robotics, MassHire workforce boards, or MassMEP, or other quasi state agencies.
Massachusetts Manufacturers At Your Request – Agile and DFM: Module 2
The past two years have taught us the endurance and tenacity of Manufacturing in MA. As part of that, the top two subjects Massachusetts manufacturers are looking for more insight with hands on training are, Agile & DFM. MassMEP offers a two part module workshop designed for the Massachusetts Manufacturing Industry.
Module two of the series: Design for Manufacturability, DFM, the benefits of different manufacturing processes and the effect of cost based on the manufacturing process and tooling consideration. The Value Engineering Methodology evaluates the different manufacturing processes, tooling consideration and labor content to establish overall cost to decide on the most economical overall price.
Please note this is One Module that is a two-day training module for each topic. That being written, this workshop requires both days in both modules are to be completed for the full training package. As an attendee you will need to schedule time to attend the training over the four day, eight-hour training time. Example: I will be in training for Agile, May 19th & 26th and in training for DFM, June 9th & 16th.
Please note that it is strongly recommended that you participate in both of these modules to receive the full package of the training.
Lead Generation Webinar with Tribal Vision
Learn Techniques to Maximize Lead Generation and Sales Conversions
This webinar will help manufacturers put in place the building blocks necessary to optimize lead generation as well as sales conversion methods throughout your pipeline. Specific sub-topics will include:
- Website optimizations (including SEO and analytics)
- LinkedIn outreach best practices and mastery
- Account based marketing outreach and best practices
- Digital marketing and sales tools and platforms to close new business