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Archive - Industry Aerospace and Aviation


  • Statesville composite manufacturer achieves AS 9100C registration; ready to expand into aerospace industry

    Highland Composites, a state-of-the-art advanced manufacturer of composites structures in Statesville, recently attained their AS 9100C registration which is an aerospace standard based on ISO 9001 quality management system requirements. Highland Composites is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Highland Industries that was formed in 2013 to focus on the composites products. With the achievement of AS 9100C registration, Highland Composites will enter the aerospace market as a preferred supplier.

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  • Bringing Shelved Strategic Plans Back Into Action

    Bring shelved strategic plans back Into action through our Assets to Action™ approach. Understand how to identify and clarify your community’s strongest assets in relation to its potential for economic development and cut through all the background noise to develop your strategic action plan.

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  • Innovation Myths, Part II

    Myth 2. Innovation is only about new products. Certainly, innovation has a long association with new product development. Indeed, innovation methods serve the NPD challenge very well; however, the same steps that we use to innovate new products (or services) can be used to innovate other types of problems, too.

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  • NCMEP announces winners of the 2015 NCMEP Leadership Awards

    NC State Industry Extension Services, administrator for the North Carolina Manufacturing Extension Partnership (NCMEP), is joined by its MEP partners from the North Carolina Community College System, NCWorks Customized Training; the Economic Development Partnership of NC; the Polymers Center of Excellence; the Manufacturing Solutions Center; North Carolina A&T State University and UNC Charlotte in announcing the inaugural winners of the 2015 NCMEP Leadership Awards.

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  • mfgCON 2015

    mfgCON 2015 is now just around the corner. On October 20-21 in Raleigh, NC, thought leaders from across the state will converge at McKimmon Center to share the newest ideas, tools and resources with their manufacturing colleagues.

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  • Southeast Secret Sauce

    National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Advisory Board Member Phil Mintz, along with seven Center Directors in the Southeast region, were recently interviewed and highlighted in the September issue of Site Selection. In this issue, the magazine looked into the work being conducted by MEPs in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, the Carolinas and Tennessee to help manufacturers grow.

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  • Lean Office

    Lean Office is similar to L100 for manufacturers. The simulation is different and the focus is less on basic lean tools and more on Value Stream Mapping.  The simulation is based […]

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  • Lean Sigma 180

    Lean Sigma 180 takes a unique approach by starting with the improvement project first.  Unlike typical Lean Six Sigma training, our team of Lean Six Sigma experts will work with […]

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