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NJMEP helps manufacturers to thrive and prosper in a competitive marketplace with lean manufacturing tools such as Lean Six Sigma, Kanban System and Kaizen principles and implementation of manufacturing performance measures.
Companies seeking solutions for Lean production, Lean healthcare or Lean food processing methods; or those looking to benefit from ISO certification and RoHS compliance can look to the resources provided here. Please contact us if you need additional information on our services
Association for Operations Management (APICS) – South Jersey Chapter (PRSJ)
APICS builds knowledge and skills in operations management professionals to enhance and validate abilities and accelerate careers. They help their members and their organizations successfully compete and build a stronger global economy. PRSJ serves as the leadership focus for supply chain education and Operations Management in the Princeton South Jersey area. They provide high quality APICS Certification education and conduct value added monthly Professional Development Meetings.
Bergen County Economic Development Corporation (BCEDC)
The Bergen County Economic Development Corporation (BCEDC) provides services from a network of Bergen County organizations to equip businesses with knowledge, skills and resources. Here, businesses have access to information that can facilitate the process of acquiring ISO 9000 certification and find out about ROHS compliance, lean 5S training, Kaizen training, research and development tax credit, and more.
Chamber of Commerce Southern New Jersey (CCSNJ)
Servicing the Southern New Jersey, Greater Philadelphia and Northern Delaware, CCSNJ provides members with opportunities to meet each other and do business, resources to enhance their position in the marketplace, and a collective voice on public policy issues that impact operations and profitability.
Delaware Valley Industrial Resource Center (DVIRC)
The Delaware Valley Industrial Resource Center (DVIRC) is an economic development organization dedicated to helping manufacturers in the Philadelphia region compete and grow. They serve the manufacturers in this region through education and training programs, consulting services, government affairs, workforce development, economic development partnerships, executive networking, regional initiative leadership and world-class best practices.
Employers Association of New Jersey (EANJ)
The Employers Association of New Jersey (EANJ) is a nonprofit association in New Jersey dedicated to helping employers make sound and responsible employment decisions through education, informed discussion and training.
Global Trade & Technology Network (GTN)
GTN acts as a gateway to the U.S. Department of Commerce's U.S. Commercial Service (www.export.gov or 800-USA-TRADE) and provides hands-on assistance to companies desiring to enter the international market place as exporters, or needing assistance with their efforts in exporting their goods and/or services. The U.S. Commercial Service is dedicated to helping U.S. companies succeed internationally. Through a global network of trade specialists working in domestic offices and markets worldwide, the Commercial Service helps U.S. companies make international sales with world-class market research, trade events that promote their products or services to qualified buyers, introductions to qualified buyers and distributors, and counseling through every step of the export process.
Microelectronics Fabrication Center (MFC)
The Microelectronics Fabrication Center (MFC) at NJIT is a dynamic interface between research, business, and education. MFC's class-10 and Class-1000 clean room facilities are equipped with cutting-edge micromachining technologies for fabricating MEMS, BioMEMS, and ACISs. MFC provides wafer processing services on 3-, 4-, 5-, and 6-inch wafers of silicon, glass, ceramic, polymer, and ferroelectrics. MFC's engineering team meets all requirements of excellence in the partnership with industry.
Morris County Economic Development Corporation
The Morris County Economic Development Corporation is a partnership of government, businesses and allies dedicated to growing the economy of Morris County through aggressive and effective programs and services that result in business attraction, creation, retention, expansion and transition.
National Institute of Standards and Technology Manufacturing Extension Partnership (NIST/MEP)
MEP provides its manufacturing customers with a wide array of fundamental services and improvements in business and manufacturing processes which help them to stay strong and ready to compete in the global market. They focus on the future for manufacturers by making business process improvement and advanced technology adoption a reality for any-sized business.
New Jersey Business & Industry Association (NJBIA)
The NJBIA is an employer association providing information, services and advocacy for its member companies in order to build a more prosperous New Jersey. They provide a magazine, newsletters, seminars, publications, programs, events and discounts to their members with information and knowledge in business issues such as environmental regulatory compliance, lean strategies for office and lean management, green manufacturing, and more.
New Jersey Business Resource Centers (BRCs)
New Jersey Business Resource Centers (BRCs) provide business solutions to small and mid-size employers. Located within One-Stop Career Centers throughout New Jersey, BRCs address workforce development requirements associated with recruitment and training. A secondary role is to help companies navigate government agencies and non-profit organizations to find information about new business development, loan programs, child labor laws, general wage and hour information, labor market data, and permitting issues.
New Jersey Chamber of Commerce (NJCC)
The New Jersey Chamber of Commerce is a business advocacy organization based in Trenton. The State Chamber staff represents its members on a wide range of business and education issues at the State House and in Washington. The organization also links the state’s local and regional chambers on issues of importance through its grassroots legislative network. Contact them for information on New Jersey tax credits and other issues when it comes to doing business in NJ.
New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology (NJCST)
The Commission is responsible for the development and oversight of policies and programs promoting science and technology research and entrepreneurship in New Jersey. Programs include: the Edison Innovation Fund for R&D, tax credits through the Technology Business Tax Certificate Program and more!
New Jersey Economic Development Authority (EDA)
The EDA is a self-supporting, independent state agency whose mission is to stimulate business development, job creation and community revitalization throughout the State. Learn how the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Center can help NJ manufacturers to compete globally by offering a non-confrontational alternative to more confrontational trade remedies such as trade restrictions, quotas, protectionism and embargos and alleviate the adverse effects on workers, employers and communities resulting from increases in foreign imports.
New Jersey Technical Assistance Program, (NJTAP)
As a premier environmental pollution prevention extension service NJTAP's mission is to deliver technical assistance to New Jersey companies and to promote improvement in industrial processes leading to elimination, reduction, and reuse of wastes before consideration of control and ultimate disposal. NJTAP is located at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, in Newark, New Jersey and is a real benefit to companies going green.
New Jersey Technology Council
The New Jersey Technology Council provides business support, networking opportunities, information, advocacy and recognition of technology companies and their leaders – helping companies work together to support their own enterprises while advancing New Jersey's status as a leading technology center in the United States. Members can find business people with similar interests and objectives including topics such as lean manufacturing principles, business continuity planning, new product development process, along with other business subjects.
Prosperity New Jersey (PNJ)
Prosperity New Jersey (PNJ) has been able to initiate structural changes that permit the State to run more like a business. This partnership of the business community and the New Jersey Commerce and Economic Growth Commission has been able to provide "continuous, market-based economic policy" to state government.
Union County Economic Development Corporation (UCEDC)
The Union County Economic Development Corporation (UCEDC) is a private, nonprofit organization that works with firms already operating within the County and assists those firms considering relocation to Union County. They work with State development agencies and banks to identify funding sources, package loans, make loans from their own revolving loan funds, and participate in development projects. UCEDC is active in programs that provide job placement and training services, entrepreneur training and microloans, procurement technical assistance, and publish a number of guides, directories and information services for the business community.
U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) was created as an independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of our nation. They recognize that small business is critical to our economic recovery and strength, to building America's future, and to helping the United States compete in today's global marketplace. The SBA helps Americans start, build and grow businesses. Through an extensive network of field offices and partnerships with public and private organizations, SBA delivers its services to people throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the U. S. Virgin Islands and Guam.
USDA Agricultural Extension Service (ES)
The Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) by combining the USDA's Cooperative State Research Service (CSRS) and Extension Service (ES) into a single agency. CSREES staff provides leadership to land-grant university partners and other grantees as they conduct research, education, and extension activities in programs related directly and indirectly to agricultural systems."Extension" means "reaching out," and—along with teaching and research—land-grant institutions "extend" their resources, solving public needs with college or university resources through non-formal, non-credit programs.
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