These Virginia Businesses Have Gained High Value from GENEDGE and They’re Willing to Share.
Across Virginia, GENEDGE delivers value to manufacturing companies. From work that led a metal fabricator in coal country to new markets or a project that helped drive a 300 percent boost in new product line sales at a chemical detection products company, read about GENEDGE’s success in the words of our clients.
"GENEDGE has been the first business adviser offering comprehensive business planning. Their approach was more comprehensive—bringing together values, sales, and financial into a single plan. We are confident that future business outcomes will only yield positive results from the growth support received from GENEDGE." —William (Bill) Riley, Managing Member/Engineer, SPARK
“In August 2017, RADVA set a new monthly production record of 86 mold changes. This would not have been achievable if we had not revamped our entire mold change process with GENEDGE’s assistance along with the assigned Virginia Tech ISE Senior Design Team.” – Jeremiah Spence, Safety/Operations Manager, RADVA Corporation
“We are truly grateful for GENEDGE’s ongoing support as ACI progresses through our Lean Journey. We have learned so much from their vast experience and knowledge offered through mentoring. We strongly believe in the critical role mentoring and collaboration plays in a Lean-thinking organization. They are crucial elements in building our learning environment to support process improvements now and in the future.” – Evan Shriver, Executive VP of Construction Operations, Atlantic Constructors, Inc.
“The Manufacturing Technology Center helped us realize that we didn’t need to make major facility changes to increase flow. Through the Kaizen event, we were able to generate a long list of improvement ideas. From there, MTC guided us to focus on key areas that would lead to significant reductions in labor and inventory to help increase overall competitiveness.” – Steve Barrett, Engineering Department Head
“Positive impacts have been achieved from adopting a 5S philosophy through GENEDGE as a trusted resource. Commitments on the part of our leadership and supporting staff to embrace the training and implementation of 5S methods and techniques were key.” – Jason Roe, Technical Director
“GENEDGE provided invaluable assistance in positioning our small business to survive and thrive despite sequestration and the subsequent downturn in the DoD support market. The help we received through GENEDGE has been a boost to our business that we might not have otherwise realized if we had to rely on our own resources. ” – Maureen Wilcox, President (Retired)
“As a result of GENEDGE’s efforts, Morphix has been able to grow production capacity of a new product line by over 300 percent.” – Bart Heenan, CEO
“The E3 project work is allowing improvements in our business that we would have not been able to accomplish without assistance from The Manufacturing Technology Center.” – Fielden Sanders, Controller
“Our business has always focused on government customers—at least until we began working with GENEDGE. We have developed a multiyear strategy using their guidance to create new services and enter commercial markets. GENEDGE has helped guide the development and roll out of our strategy, applying its knowledge and network to our benefit.” – Donna Scassera, President/CEO
GStek, Inc. was interested in exploring opportunities in the commercial telecommunications market. The company reached out to GENEDGE for strategic guidance, market research, and marketing support.