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Manufacturing Solutions

The Manufacturers Association provides information, consulting and training on issues critical to the success of your business. We bring together the right resources to help solve problems.

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Why come to MACNY?

We take action to provide innovative and value-added solutions to address issues and opportunities in manufacturing and business processes:

• Provide special information seminars on specific topics that impact many member businesses, for example ROHS and WEEE panel discussion, Grants Workshop
• Create special action committees to effectively lobby for legislative action, for example Energy Committee, Workers Compensation
• Implement purchasing consortia to lower costs of doing business, for example the MACNY Electricity Aggregation
• Perform e-Connect surveys to instantly poll membership to determine the latest answers on hot topics
• Conduct research and member surveys to provide the valuable information you can use to manage your business efficiently and effectively every day
• Answer your questions immediately using staff, legal, engineering and governmental resources, for example using the HR Hotline
• Find highly qualified and experienced practitioners on a wide variety of topics at competitive market rates to provide services

What Solutions can we offer?

Employers turn to MACNY for on-site consulting help when specialized skills, experience or time may preclude their internal completion of the project. MACNY continually upgrades and adds to its pool of consultants to make sure employers have the most current and skilled specialists. If your budget and the need to start a project do not match, MACNY will work with you to find the most affordable solution. There is no cost for the initial meeting with the consultant, as all tasks and fees are spelled out in detail before a project is started and you are guaranteed:

• A consultant with proven credentials, professionalism and experience.
• A high-quality project delivered on time and within your budget.

Lean Manufacturing

MACNY has provided Lean Manufacturing Consulting and Training for over 10 years. MACNY has developed a network of respected providers that can facilitate the design and implementation of your Lean transformation.

• Assess your current capabilities and develop a systematic approach to implementing lean at your facility
• Provide training for all employees to facilitate continuous improvement
• Conduct 5S and Kaizen events to set the foundation for improvement and kick start results
• Work hand in hand with your organization to support lean implementation
  

Six Sigma

Organizations around the world have benefited through implementation of Six Sigma approaches. Following the DMAIC methodology organizations are able to find and focus on the critical few measures, ensuring they deliver high quality products and services to their customers and improved profitability to their bottom line. MACNY’s partners are Master Black Belts who ensure you can:

• Work on problems that will provide the best returns for you and your customer
• Define and measure attributes that will improve your ability to deliver error free products and services
• Develop operational processes to sustain and continue to make improvements

Quality Management Systems and ISO Registration

Being able to provide quality systems and procedures are business requirements. Many customers require that your organization demonstrate it can meet their quality standards through specific ISO registration. MACNY consultants can ensure:

• You and your employees understand the standards and their requirements
• Your processes are clearly documented, with systematic approaches to maintain them and keep them up to date
• You have the wherewithal to conduct internal audits or access external auditors when needed
• You have ways to measure and improve levels of customer and employee satisfaction
  

Strategic Planning

A clear direction and shared vision are critical in building long-term business success. MACNY professionals can help you create a vision, and to align goals, processes, and everyday decision making with that vision. We work with you to:

• Create a shared vision/direction employees can understand and commit to.
• Assess your current state as an organization.
• Understand environmental impacts on your business.
• Assess forces helping and hindering the achievement of your vision.

Once a strategic direction is in place, it then becomes necessary to examine how the organization will get there – tactically. MACNY helps you to create and integrate action plans for implementation and keep the strategy alive and part of everyday functioning. Shaping the future of your organization is a constant, ongoing process. MACNY provides support and assistance in this critical organizational challenge.

Sales and Marketing

Studies indicate that beyond productivity improvement sales and marketing are keys to the future success of manufacturing. MACNY works with you to:

• Identify your potential customers and target your selling proposition
• Develop a marketing plan with strategies to focus on how your products and services best meet your customer’s needs
• Create marketing materials supporting your sales initiatives to help you meet your goals

Other consulting topics

Affirmative Action – MACNY will audit your plan, rewrite it, or create a new one and/or perform the statistical calculations for your annual statistics. 

Customer/Vendor Satisfaction Surveys – Results are summarized into an index of response to provide a prioritized focus for positive corrective action in a survey tailored to meet your needs.

Employee Handbooks, Policy & Procedures Manuals – A potent communication instrument that helps prevent wrongful discharge and discrimination cases and is an effective employee orientation tool.

Employee/Union Relations – MACNY's experienced labor relations consultants assist you in the areas of union avoidance, employee relations training, union elections, contract negotiation, grievance handling and arbitration.

Employee Opinion Surveys – A well-designed and analyzed survey, tailored to the needs of the company, provides your organization with important data about the changing attitudes and values of your employees and helps maintain high satisfaction levels leading to less absenteeism, higher quality products, lower accident rates and less turnover.

Employee Teams – MACNY consultants will provide the guidance, facilitation, training and strong, active implementation for organizations to involve their people to improve the performance of the organization.