Manufacturing Matters

Wednesday, April 29, 2009 Issue 1, Quarter 1 2009   VOLUME 3 ISSUE 1  
NJMEP Home
NJMEP ROI Impact
Updated   Since 2001 our customers have realized cost savings of more than $112 million and more than $664 million in increased and retained sales….
[Learn more...]
 
Contact NJMEP
If you would like to see how NJMEP can help your company, click here.
Articles from Industry Week

Researching the Future: 40% of Bosch's R&D Budget Looks at 'Green' Products
Read article by Adrienne Selko

 
An Inside Look at Environment Management Success at Bosch
Read article by Adrienne Selko

 
What You Need To Know About Workforce Optimization
Read article by John Teresko

 
CO2-free Electricity from Waste Heat to Australia
Read article by Adrienne Selko

 

Would you like to read past issues of Manufacturing Matters?
Manufacturing Matters Archives
Issue 3, Quarter 3 2009
October 6, 2009
Vol. 3 Issue 3
Issue 2, Quarter 2 2009
July 10, 2009
Vol. 3 Issue 2
Issue 9, Quarter 4 2008
December 17, 2008
Vol. 2 Issue 9

[MORE]

Enter your email address in the box below to receive an email each time we post a new issue of our newsletter:


Add Remove
Send as HTML
 

Stimulus Package - NJMEP Style!

Need a little extra boost for your workplace? How about a FREE Seat at one of NJMEP's Workshops!? All you have to do is be one of the first 20 people to email kbaldwin@njmep.org with NJMEP Stimulus Package in the title. In the email, please state the workshop in May or June you would like to attend. For more information about workshops, please refer to the NJMEP Events section at the bottom of the newsletter. Winners will be notified by Kathleen Baldwin.

 

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Get Results
In These Economic Times, Green Practices Pay

If saving 30 percent on utility costs sounds good, it’s just a start to what can be accomplished by integrating green practices into your business.  Many small and mid-size companies have implemented green practices within their organizations and have reaped the rewards without large upfront investments.
 

[Read more]
 

Lean Strategies for the Office
Faster Order Turnaround, New Office Design and Improved Processes – The Lean Way!

New Jersey companies are excited about the benefits reaped from participating in the 2008 Lean Strategies for the Office workshops presented by NJMEP.   Lean Strategies for the Office workshops are designed to help companies streamline administrative processes with existing resources while eliminating “non value-added” activities.  Overall, NJMEP clients report the workshops have successfully cut an average of twenty percent of the time, effort, or costs associated with their processes. 

[Read more]
 

Put Money Back in Your Hands with R&D Tax Credits

Now that you have completed the annual April 15th tribute to Uncle Sam, it is a good time to consider getting some of those paid taxes back in your hands with R&D tax credits.  These credits are designed to help manufacturers recapture a portion of the monies invested in developing or improving products and processes.  As a manufacturer, you may be unaware that many of your efforts to design your products qualify as R&D and may make you eligible for tax credits for expenditures associated with these activities.  NJMEP can help you uncover and describe the activities that qualify and assist you in getting the appropriate tax credits.
 

[Read more]
 

Succession Planning
A Required Vehicle for the Road to Retirement

Did you know that most businesses’ performance and value drops 15-30 percent for the first three to four years after a business owner retires?  
Don Moore, Succession Planner and President of Decision Associates shares this hard hitting fact as well as other incentives to help you prepare for a better retirement future.  After all, can your stakeholders afford to see that depreciation of the business?  Can you?   

[Read more]
 

NJMEP Events
 
Throughout the year, NJMEP hosts events that provide valuable information to New Jersey's manufacturers, including  three different types of Lean workshops.
[To see our 2009 schedule and register for events, click here]
 

About NJMEP
New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Program, Inc. (NJMEP) is a not-for-profit organization charged with assisting New Jersey's small- and medium-sized manufacturers to become more productive, profitable, and globally competitive. O
ur  Field Agents can work with you and your organization to identify opportunities to improve business or help you develop an opportunity that you have already identified. There are 59 other Manufacturing Extension Programs (MEP's) with locations in every state and Puerto Rico. NJMEP can draw on this national pool of expertise to solve problems here in New Jersey or at your facilities nationwide.  
Learn more

Published by New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Program, Inc.
Copyright © 2009 New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Program, Inc. . All rights reserved.
TELL A FRIEND
Powered by IMN