Manufacturing Resources
- APICS
APICS, the Educational Society for Resource Management is a not-for-profit international educational organization respected throughout the world for its education and professional certification programs. With more than 70,000 individual and corporate members in 20,000 companies worldwide, APICS is dedicated to using education to improve the business bottom line.
- American Management Association International (AMA)
AMA is a nonprofit, membership-based educational organization that assists individuals and enterprises in the development of organizational effectiveness, the primary sustainable competitive advantage in a global economy. It identifies best management practices worldwide to provide assessment, design, development, self-development and instruction services through a variety of print and electronic media and learning methodologies, all designed to enhance the growth of individuals and organizations.
- American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC)
APQC is a world-renowned resource for process and performance improvement for organizations of all sizes and industries. Founded as a nonprofit organization in 1977, APQC continues to work with organizations to improve productivity and quality by providing the tools, information, and support they need to discover and implement best practices and obtain results in dozens of process areas.
- American Society for Quality (ASQ)
ASQ is a society of individual and organizational members dedicated to the ongoing development, advancement, and promotion of quality concepts, principles, and techniques. ASQ's vision is to advance individual and organizational performance excellence worldwide by providing opportunities for learning, quality improvement, and knowledge exchange.
- American Society for Training and Development (ASTD)
ASTD's mission is to provide leadership to individuals, organizations, and society to achieve work-related competence, performance, and fulfillment.
- Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME)
AME is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1985. AME provides to its members an educational opportunity to learn leading-edge techniques and a forum whereby members stay abreast of new and developing management and operational techniques.
- Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT)
AMT has been dedicated to supporting and enhancing the activities of American manufacturers since its founding over 90 years ago. In pursuit of those goals, the association works on a wide variety of programs, publications, seminars, and services designed to put AMT's 360+ member companies in the vanguard of industrial technology.
- Baldrige National Quality Program
This national quality award program was created in 1987 to help stimulate American companies to improve quality and productivity. The Award is named for Malcolm Baldrige who served as Secretary of Commerce from 1981 until his death in 1987. His managerial excellence contributed to long-term improvement in efficiency and effectiveness of government.
- Baldrige 2003 Criteria For Business Excellence
The new 2003 Baldrige Criteria For Business Excellence has been placed in service on The Benchmarking Exchange for public access. You can use this application to obtain a report card on how your department, division or entire organization measures up using the 2003 Baldrige Criteria. The report will also show how you scored compared with others in your industry and across all industries combined.
- Best Manufacturing Practices (BMP)
The BMP program has changed American industry's cultural bias by sharing information with other companies, including competitors. This unique, innovative, technology transfer program is committed to strengthening the U.S. industrial base.
- Virginia Tech's Center for High Performance Manufacturing (VT_CHPM)
To help manufacturing firms, (especially those in Virginia) become high-performance manufacturers, in their respective industries, via research and development of enabling tools and technologies and the successful transfer and implementation of these items.
- Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing International (CAM-I)
CAM-I is a not-for-profit, cooperative membership organization established in 1972 to support research and development in areas of strategic importance to manufacturing industries. Since 1972, the membership has expanded to include several industries outside manufacturing. CAM-I is an industry-based, industry-driven organization that is owned, governed and directed by its members. Its sole purpose is to support member companies in their quest for excellence in today's highly competitive global marketplace.
- DoD TechMatch
Department of Defense TechMatch provides a free centralized, web-based knowledge portal designed to provide manufacturers a single source to find information on many DoD technology transfer and transition topics, including research and development opportunities, laboratories, test
facilities, and patents available for licensing.
- George Group Consulting L.L.C.
Since 1986, George Group has helped their clients to design the most effective, tailored continuous improvement program and achieve rapid, sustainable improvement in ROIC and share value. They were the first to integrate Lean and Six Sigma to achieve faster speeds and higher quality.
- InsideQuality
InsideQuality is an online quality digest marketplace and information community that provides tools, news, forums, a marketplace and career center, and more. Free membership grants visitors the most accessibility to the site, but it is not mandatory to access many of the site's resources.
- Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)
Founded in 1948, IIE is the society dedicated to serving the professional needs of industrial engineers and all individuals involved with improving quality and productivity. IIE's 24,000 members throughout North America and more than 80 countries stay on the cutting edge of their profession through IIE's life-long-learning approach, as reflected in the educational opportunities, publications, and networking opportunities they offer. Members also gain valuable leadership experience and enjoy peer recognition through numerous volunteer opportunities.
- Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI)
LEI's global mission is to be the leading educators for society in maximizing value and minimizing waste. To accomplish this goal, LEI develops and advances lean principles, tools, and techniques designed to enable positive change.
- Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP)
MEP is a nationwide network of not-for-profit centers in over 400 locations nationwide whose sole purpose is to provide small and medium-sized manufacturers with the help they need to succeed. The centers, serving all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, are linked together through the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology. That makes it possible for even the smallest firms to tap into the expertise of knowledgeable manufacturing and business specialists all over the U.S.
- Manufacturing Resources
Process Industry Supplier Directory - Online searchable directory of process suppliers enabling buyers to easily source manufacturers of process, energy and greater manufacturing products such as valves, pumps and strainers. Site includes free magazines, jobs, news and events.
- Manufacturing Technology Center (MTC)
MTC in southwestern Virginia is a consortium of five community colleges and is funded by VPMEP, the Commonwealth, Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology, and federal grants. It provides workforce training and manufacturing modernization services in southwestern Virginia.
- Material Handling Industry of America (MHIA)
MHIA is a non-profit membership organization. Active members are manufacturers of industrial material handling equipment and systems or user-specified components for such equipment. They market their products in the United States. Associate membership is held by business publications, consultants, and systems simulators.
- MidAtlantic Trade Adjustment Assistance Center
(MATAAC)
MATAAC provides financial assistance in the form of federal grants to help mid-Atlantic manufacturers meet and exceed goals to strengthen their position in today's global marketplace.
- National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)
The National Association of Manufacturers was founded in 1895 to advance a pro-growth, pro-manufacturing policy agenda. More than a century later, the NAM continues to be the leading voice for manufacturers in the United States.
- National Association of Purchasing Management (NAPM)
Founded in 1915, NAPM is a progressive association with a mission to provide national and international leadership in purchasing and materials management, particularly in the areas of education, research, and standards of excellence.
- National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS)
NCMS is a not-for-profit research and development consortium of more than 220 North American corporations. Through NCMS, companies can team up on research projects that normally would be too costly and time consuming to conduct themselves.
- National Coalition For Advanced Manufacturing (NACFAM)
The NACFAM mission is to enhance the productivity, quality, and competitiveness of all tiers of the U.S. domestic industrial base by accelerating the development and deployment of advanced manufacturing technologies and developing a workforce skill standards system to align worker skill with industry needs.
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
OSHA and its state partners have approximately 2100 inspectors, plus complaint discrimination investigators, engineers, physicians, educators, standards writers, and other technical and support personnel spread over more than 200 offices throughout the country. This staff establishes protective standards, enforces those standards, and reaches out to employers and employees through technical assistance and consultation programs.
- Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing
The Shingo Prize recognizes companies that excel in productivity and process improvement, quality enhancement, and customer satisfaction. It is administrated by Utah State University College of Business.
- Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
What do cars, aircraft, trucks, off-highway equipment, engines, materials, manufacturing, and fuels have in common? SAE. The Society of Automotive Engineers is your one-stop resource for technical information and expertise used in designing, building, maintaining, and operating self-propelled vehicles for use on land or sea, in air or space.
- Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)
SME is an international professional society dedicated to serving its members and the manufacturing community through the advancement of professionalism, knowledge, and learning. Founded in 1932, SME has over 60,000 members in 70 countries. The Society also sponsors 295 chapters, districts and regions, as well as 275 student chapters worldwide.
- Superfactory
Superfactory's mission is to provide resources, communities, and services supporting global manufacturing excellence and maximized resource utilization. Its vision - a globally interconnected manufacturing community creating incredible excellence and productivity worldwide.
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
EPA's purpose is to ensure that all Americans are protected from significant risks to human health and the environment where they live, learn and work.
- U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
The mission of the EEOC is to promote equal opportunity in employment through administrative and judicial enforcement of the federal civil rights laws and through education and technical assistance.
- U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
The SBA provides financial, technical and management assistance to help Americans start, run, and grow their businesses. With a portfolio of business loans, loan guarantees and disaster loans worth more than $45 billion, SBA is the nation's largest single financial backer of small businesses. The SBA also plays a major role in the government's disaster relief efforts by making low-interest recovery loans to both homeowners and businesses.
- Virginia Applied
Technology & Professional Development Center (VATPDC)
VATPDC at Old Dominion University is funded by VPMEP and CIT. It primarily provides faculty-based engineering services to manufacturers for product and process prototype development and testing in the Hampton Roads area and across Virginia.
- Virginia Community College System (VCCS)
The mission of the Virginia Community College System is to provide comprehensive higher-education and workforce training programs and services of superior quality that are financially and geographically accessible and that meet individual, business, and community needs of the Commonwealth.
- Virginia Department of Business Assistance (DBA)
Established in July 1996 by the Virginia General Assembly, DBA offers a variety of value-added services to business and industry, including workforce training; financing assistance; and small business counseling and training.
- Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ)
DEQ protects the environment of Virginia in order to promote the health and well-being of the citizens of the Commonwealth.
- Virginia Information Providers Network (VIPNet)
VIPNet was created to help the Commonwealth streamline and enhance the ways in which citizens and businesses access government information.
The vision of VIPNet is to establish a single, common gateway to government information that will improve access to free information, while at the same time, build value-added services for commercially-viable information that is of interest to the business community.
- Virginia Manufacturers Association
(VMA)
Founded in 1922 and located in Richmond, Virginia, the VMA provides the basic action programs for manufacturers to effectively participate in the shaping of laws, regulations, and administrative rulings that affect manufacturing and mining operations throughout the Commonwealth. VMA carries a continuing responsibility to work for manufacturers in supporting and advancing reasonable and balanced pro-business public policies in Virginia.
- Virginia
Business Pipeline (VBP)
VPP is a state supported computerized database that assists buyers and sellers by marketing and identifying products and services that are available in the Commonwealth.
- Virginia Tech Business Resources
Why do business with Virginia Tech? Corporate partnerships with Virginia Tech, by nature, are mutually beneficial. By tapping into the university's wealth of research, knowledge, high-tech facilities, and faculty and student talent, businesses and industries receive high-quality, cost-effective assistance.
- Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology (CIT)
CIT increases the Commonwealth's economic competitiveness and quality of life by advancing the development of Virginia as a technology state and by creating and retaining technology-based jobs and businesses.
- Virginia's Manufacturing Innovation Center (VMIC)
VMIC is sponsored by James Madison University (JMU) and CIT. The mission of VMIC is to enhance the competitiveness of Virginia's smaller manufacturers and to help them build a strong economic foundation through a well-trained workforce, accessible advanced information technology, and modern production management practices.
- Yahoo Manufacturing Connections
A directory of manufacturing companies.
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