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How the Right Skills Now training program is delivering results for regional manufacturers
Right Skills Now
Right Skills Now is a national model for offering accelerated training in CNC operations, programming and machining specialties that will account for 14 to 22 percent of job growth in manufacturing by 2024.
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How a startup becomes a scale-up
All successful companies start as an idea, but at some point, that idea has to generate sales if the business is to succeed.
“People come up with an idea and start a business but in a lot of cases don’t have the business background to drive the company through to profits,” says Cliff Reynolds, co-director...
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Work with SMART Microsystems yields big wins for Nordson – and the region
Nordson Corp.’s Lorain County roots run deep.
The global industrial company, based in Westlake, was founded in Amherst by Eric and Evan Nord, sons of local industrialist Walter G. Nord. While the Nord family no longer runs the company, the manufacturer retains close ties to the community, and nowhere is that more evident than in...
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Success in 3-D: As additive manufacturing explodes MakerGear gets spark from Fab Lab
In the early days of 3-D printing, MakerGear founder Rick Pollack bootstrapped a small business making components in his Shaker Heights garage.
“When we started out, we made our machines out of laser-cut plywood,” Pollack recalls. “I was making printer parts one at a time in my garage.”
In 2008, a friend introduced him to the...
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How PLIDCO® helps people train for careers in CNC machining
PLIDCO®
Today’s manufacturing industry is struggling to find the skilled talent it needs. Just ask Northeast Ohio manufacturer The Pipe Line Development Co. (PLIDCO®), the world’s leading supplier of pipeline repair and maintenance fittings.
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LCCC launches The Richard Desich Sales Institute
The Richard Desich Sales Institute
Savvy, knowledgeable consumers don’t respond well to pushy, old-school sales tactics, so professionals need to learn new sales skills to be successful. And that could include redefining what “selling” means.
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Mastering business fundamentals for startup growth
With a doctorate in engineering from Case Western Reserve University, Simon Melikian knew a lot about building technology when he founded Recognition Robotics.
But he knew a lot less about building a business. So he came to GLIDE.
“I probably would have failed otherwise,” says Melikian, founder, president and CEO of Recognition Robotics. “Maybe some people are...
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How Wireless Environment secured funding to produce its closet lighting solution
Wireless Environment
David Levine and his business partner, Michael Recker, started Wireless Environment to shed light on a real problem.
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The Speed-to-Market Accelerator program piloted talent planning strategies for regional workforce development
LogiSync and RES Polyflow
The Northeast Ohio Speed-to-Market Accelerator (STMA) program focuses on flexible electronics and advanced energy, two emerging industries with high-growth potential in Northeast Ohio.
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How Apollo Medical Devices developed a new blood testing system
Apollo Medical Devices
To perform most blood tests, a nurse obtains a vial of blood is from a patient and sends the sample to a lab, where it’s spun in a big machine and analyzed. Lab technicians then email the patient’s results to the physician who ordered the test.
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LCCC is helping Lorain County Habitat for Humanity transition to its new headquarters
Habitat for Humanity
If you’re looking for the headquarters of Lorain County Habitat for Humanity, you might run into some trouble. That’s because the organization is currently located at two addresses.
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