CIME supports MDC entrepreneurs
3/10/2008
The staff of the Center of Innovation for Manufacturing Excellence is currently assisting entrepreneurial clients of the Manufacturing Development Center in Gainesville, Georgia. Products under development are related to everything from medical assisting to recreational devices. The CIME staff are providing d …
Technology Camps Give Students the Edge
3/03/2007
Manufacturers in Georgia share a common, and very real, concern: maintaining the flow of a workforce skilled in high-tech manufacturing. With that in mind, the Center of Innovation for Manufacturing Excellence (CIME) in Gainesville is assisting students in gaining a competitive edge by offering workforce deve …
2/09/2007
“If you build it, they will come.” This quote from the 1989 movie Field of Dreams was referred to Kevin Costner turning his corn field into a baseball field – and the ghosts of the 1919 Chicago White Sox showing up to play. For Jay Menefee, President and CEO of the ammunition company Polywad, Inc, nothing i …
11/08/2006
Last January, the Forsyth County Alliance Robotics team found themselves staring at a box of junk – sprockets, wires, motors, gears, processors and more. From this pile, they were to design and build a robot in six weeks that could play basketball.
The task was part of the FIRST – For Inspiration and Recogn …
7/21/2006
“Drinking from a fire hose” is the vivid description R.K. Whitehead, President of Whitehead Die Casting in Gainesville, gives regarding how a 20 percent growth rate and shortened lead times from customers affected his company. “Our product is solid, but our internal operating system was out of date, resulting i …
