To advance Indiana's economic prosperity, health, 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
- learning through seminars and training programs
Listing of Products & Services
"Purdue University's Technical Assistance Program assisted Ridetech with the introduction of their ShockWave® Air Suspensions to the ATV market. We helped them focus their marketing message, created a money model for the product, and assisted in planning the early stages of the market introduction. Ridetech now offers their high-end air suspension systems to owners of many popular ATV models."
- Rich Meyer, Manager of Faculty and Innovation Services, rgmeyer@purdue.edu
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Green Enterprise Development
"With the help of Purdue’s Green Enterprise Development Program, we learned how to package our energy and waste costs into a single measurement tool. Now, when we develop a new chair or sofa, we examine how to utilize less material for making a new piece of furniture."
- Melissa Fey, Sustainability Facilitator, Smith Brothers Furniture
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Indianapolis Zoo
"Purdue TAP has been a very good resource to help the Indianapolis Zoo reduce its energy consumption as we continue efforts to empower people, resources, and communities locally and globally to advance animal conservation."
- Mike Teague, Director of Facilities, The Indianapolis Zoo
Services Provided:
- Energy Efficiency & Sustainability
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Technical Assistance Projects
Alcoa Inc. engineers at the Global Hard Alloy Extrusions facility in Lafayette, Ind., discovered that an H-13 tool steel component used to manufacture aluminum extrusions for the aerospace industry was cracking. A research team involving Purdue faculty and researchers used scanning electron microscopy and hardness measurements in their analysis to understand the cause of the failure preventing losses that could reach $50,000.
Services Provided:
- Technical Assistance Projects (Faculty Assistance)
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Hoosier Spring
"Thanks to this training partnership with Purdue, we have new tools and a renewed enthusiasm to grow our company and supply the best quality product on time and at a competitive price."
- Greg Lynch, Quality Assurance Manager, Hoosier Spring Co.
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Available 24/7-- Green Generalist Online Training Course - Online
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February 13-March 12, 2012- Advanced Manufacturing (Lean) Practitioner II Certification - LAFAYETTE, IN
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February 13, 2012- Cellular Flow Manufacturing - LAFAYETTE, IN
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February 15, 2012- Effective Communication Workshop - INDIANAPOLIS, IN
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February 17, 2012- Energy Savings 101 - JASPER, IN
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February 20, 2012- Pull/Kanban Systems - LAFAYETTE, IN
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February 24-March 23, 2012- Advanced Manufacturing (Lean) Practitioner I Certification - WARSAW, IN
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February 24, 2012- Principles of Lean Manufacturing - WARSAW, IN
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February 27, 2012- Advanced Problem Solving - LAFAYETTE, IN
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February 29, 2012- Managing Performance – Improving Performance Workshop - INDIANAPOLIS, IN
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March 1-2, 2012- ISO 9001: 2008 Internal Auditing - INDIANAPOLIS, IN
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Purdue University’s Technical Assistance Program is the
Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) center for the State of Indiana.