Martinsville-based GENEDGE Alliance to help boost U.S. supply chain with $400K grant
After the COVID-19 pandemic sparked product shortages, the manufacturing consulting group now is part of a national mission to strengthen domestic supply chains. This is a Cardinal News Story, by Matt Busse June 19, 2023 The Martinsville-based GENEDGE Alliance, an organization that serves as a consultant to manufacturers across Virginia, will use a…
The Importance of Advanced Manufacturing in Today’s Business Environment
The global manufacturing sector has entered a new era: a landscape of innovation and growth churned by decades of industrialization. As a key economic driver, advanced manufacturing has significantly evolved from traditional methods to embrace more dynamic, efficient technologies. But this change makes manufacturing companies feel increased pressure to stay……
Emerging Business Leaders Program
The GENEDGE Alliance offers the opportunity to transform small manufacturing companies in Virginia Does your Virginia manufacturing company operate with less than 20 employees? If yes, you could be in the right place! In our effort to continue elevating the commercial performance of manufacturers through innovative solutions and services, GENEDGE…
Seriously, Drop What You’re Doing and Launch this Manufacturing Youth Engagement Program Right Now.
Bert Eades
Business Service Director – Operations Support A former manufacturing executive, Eades has led numerous large plant transformations, including performance turnarounds, rapid volume growth and product line changes. He has extensive experience as a supervisor, engineer, production manager and operations manager. For over 15 years, he served as a plant manager…
Mike Levy: Small Manufacturing Marketing Expert
In the world of small manufacturing enterprises, marketing can seem like a foreign language, but Mike Levy is committed to showing how “it’s just like manufacturing.” Mike Levy, GENEDGE Alliance’s Business Services Director – Growth, understands the marketing challenges companies face. He regularly encounters intelligent, data-driven individuals focused on running…
GENEDGE Launches Pilot Emerging Business Program
Industrial & Systems Engineer Andrae Kirkland Tapped to Lead Innovative Initiative GENEDGE is proud to support the growth and prosperity of emerging manufacturing businesses across the Commonwealth and Andrae is the ideal person to lead the new GENEDGE Emerging Business Program” — Dean Young. Vice President of Business Transformation MARTINSVILLE,…
How GENEDGE is Empowering Small and Medium Manufacturers in Virginia to Innovate, Compete and Grow
Over the past few decades, manufacturing has undergone a drastic change, and it’s undeniable. Large developing economies have evolved into manufacturing supergiants. A threatening recession depleted demand, and employment plunged in advanced nations. Impactedly, manufacturers have been feeling the heat from their communities to cut costs while simultaneously producing complex,…
GENEDGE Receives $400k in Cooperative Agreement with NIST to Strengthen Supply Chain for VA Manufacturers
MARTINSVILLE, VA, UNITED STATES, May 16, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) has entered into a $400,000 cooperative agreement with GENEDGE, a state organization that delivers solutions to accelerate the growth of manufacturing companies throughout Virginia. The pilot program for…