Rebranded Nevada Industry Excellence focuses on growth
The university-sponsored extension service that assists Nevada’s manufacturers increasingly is focused on helping them grow their revenues.
And that, managers of the service say, translates into a focused, disciplined process of innovation for manufacturers that hope to grow.
Nevada Industry Excellence — it was known as Management Assistance Partnership or MAP until a few days ago — has focused on cost-containment through most of its 15-year history of working with manufacturers in Nevada, says Sandy Haslem, its director.
That work has included workshops on lean manufacturing — eliminating extra steps and extra costs — as well as energy-efficiency in manufacturing processes and building operation.
But after working with about 350 businesses statewide, Nevada Industry Excellence found in a survey that more than half of its potential clients are focused these days on the need to grow revenue.
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