“After the pandemic manufacturing slowed down. So we were looking for ways to diversify and appeal to different industries,” said Emerson Bilodeau, Director of Quality and Engineering at AeroDynamics. “We were already in the aerospace market, but it dipped like everything else. So we decided to go after the medical market thinking it would be a good fit for us.” But to do that AeroDynamics realized they needed to go after ISO 13485:2016 certification

Kristian and his partners knew they needed a system to get their products out quicker, with less mistakes, for less cost and increased customer satisfaction. After doing some research they learned NH MEP had a Principles of Lean Manufacturing Training Program and reached out to them for help.

“We started hearing rumblings from our customers that CMMC was coming down the pipeline and we really didn’t know much about it,” said Dan Villemaire, President of C&M Precision Tech. “ At that point, we started looking into how we could get ahead of this and become CMMC compliant.”

A few years ago, Vince had attended the Principles of Lean Public Workshop put on by NH MEP. He learned a lot about overcoming inefficiencies in the workshop and thought it would be beneficial to the company to bring in a Lean training program.

Matt reached out to NH MEP, and with the help of a NH MEP Project Manager, an on-site Lean Training and Implementation Program was developed to meet the needs of Harvey Building Products.

Ken attended NH MEP’s marketing information session workshop and afterward was interested in learning more. This led him to sign up for NH MEP’s full series of marketing training workshops called the “Marketing Strategies Collaborative Program” put on by TribalVision.

“Part of our market is the military market. More and more they are requiring CMMC compliance or at least demonstrating a path to CMMC compliance,” said Adrian Pyke, CEO of Micro-Precision Technologies. “It started to show up as requirements on some purchase orders and on specification they gave us. So we did it in response to their requirements or in expectation of their requirements.”

“A lot of our customers in the defense industry have made CMMC cybersecurity compliance a requirement,” said Jeremy Baron, President of Baron Machine Company. “I saw the writing on the wall and decided to make sure we were in the proper place when CMMC becomes enforced.” But now came the daunting task of finding an organization who could get them to CMMC compliance.

The training mentored and educated employees at the client’s site in Principles of Lean, Value Stream Mapping, and execution of Kaizen events. The hands-on experience with the mentoring role would create the workforce skills necessary to recreate and expand the Lean continuous improvement culture throughout the organization.