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Calculating Your Cost of Goods Sold and Estimating Future Production Costs

Many start-up companies make the mistake of designing overly complex products that are expensive to manufacture and assemble at scale. This inflated cost can make your price point too high Read More

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Collaborative-Capable Robots: The Future is Now for Automated Welding

For years, traditional industrial welding automation has helped large companies address labor shortages, variable cost overruns, difficult production targets and quality issues. Without those large capital budgets, however, automation had Read More

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Why Traceability is Crucial for a Successful Supply Chain

Traceability is a crucial part of supply chain management. If traceability is neglected, you could damage your business reputation and lose millions in revenue. But it’s not just about risk—traceability Read More

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Recession-Proof Your Operations

Most manufacturers have experienced a decade of growth since the Great Recession ended in 2009. But there are signs — declines in new orders, a stagnating U.S. gross domestic product, Read More

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Keeping Supply & Demand in Perfect Harmony

How to improve sales and operations planning (S&OP) to create a collaborative environment of success The primary goal of any successful business is to keep sales and operations in perfect, Read More

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Accelerate Your Journey from “Concept to Delivery”

Increase Innovation and Speed Your Design Path with Additive Manufacturing & Function-Driven Generative Design Every business struggles with reducing the time from design concept to final product. A matter of Read More

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Opportunities for PA Exporters in Australian Market – Taking Your Business Down Under

If you’re a Pennsylvania firm and haven’t considered the world’s 14th largest economy as a potential export market for your goods or services – you should! Join us as our Read More

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Optimizing Production in the Age of Digital Transformation

Today’s Markets are no longer satisfied with “standard” products and services. Manufacturers are increasingly driven to produce smaller quantities of a wider variety of products – and to do it Read More

Tagged With: Continuous Improvement, Data and Statistics, innovation, operations, supply chain

Factory of the Future – Optimizing the Plant for Industrial Transformation

The Factory of the future (FoF) is a key part of every industrial transformation (IX) program. It delivers the systems needed in the factory to support IX technology, process and Read More

Tagged With: Continuous Improvement, innovation, operations, Planning & Forcasting

Machine Vision

Improve your manufacturing operations through application of machine vision. Do you have a significant amount of visual inspection, measurement, or tracking and tracing requirements in your operation? If so, you Read More

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“Through the Winning Teams program, we increased throughput in our laminate cleaning/inspection area by 18%, which also shortened the time for us to respond to vendors about defective products and t… Read more

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“We’re very pleased with the results of the training. It was a great way to break the ice regarding a systemic change in one of our oldest and most experience facilities. By training on change man… Read more

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The IMC and its staff have played an integral part in the success of Pik Rite’s Continuous Improvement culture as well as directly influencing more efficient production and operations. The proof is … Read more

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We are a small organization and do not have IT staff. Before we found IMC, the task to implement CMMC seemed almost insurmountable. With their help, the process was no longer overwhelming, and we were… Read more

Terry KnouseVice President of OperationsNuVisions Center


5 Whys, SIPOC, Value Stream Maps, etc. are great ways to visualize problems that are difficult to pinpoint.

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The attendees of both training programs came away energized and eager to apply their new skills in training, coaching and communications. There is broad consensus that these skills should continue to … Read more

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We make investments where and when our workforce is skilled and ready.  The training was a solid foundation for supervisor development.

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IMC President is Guest Speaker on “Risk-Based Decision Making in a Time of Uncertainty” Podcast

IMC President, Dennis Gilbert had the honor of joining the kickoff episode of Survive and Thrive—a timely podcast series featured on The Quality Hub. In this first episode, Dennis joins hosts Xavier Francis and …

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Central Susquehanna WSCM School Honored at Statewide Manufacturing Awards

As Central Susquehanna WSCM’s Best of PA nominees, Mount Carmel Area and Huntingdon Area Middle Schools recently joined IMC’s Lauri Moon, Manager of the Central Susquehanna WSCM program, at the What’s So Cool About Manufacturing® …

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What’s So Cool About Manufacturing Video Contest Announces 2025 Central Susquehanna Awards

IMC is excited to announce the award recipients for the “What’s So Cool About Manufacturing?” (WSCM) Central Susquehanna student video contest awards.  The annual awards ceremony was held April 23rd at The Venue at Liberty …

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