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- Niagara Specialty Metals Receives AS9100 Certification
- Quality system certification is important for improving quality and attracting new customers. AS9100 is a widely adopted and standardized quality management system for the aerospace industry.Learn how one Akron, NY company achieved AS9100 Certification through the combined efforts of Insyte Consulting and a committed internal team.
- President's Message - Licking the Double Dip
- Business is improving. The stock market is up. The Purchasing Managers Index for Manufacturing was 59.6 in March, its highest level since mid-2004. Unemployment fell to 8.6% in WNY last month, still too high, but improving. Orders are up, backlogs are growing, so company owners and presidents should be happy, right? Not quite. Their worries and fears are now focused on the dreaded "double dip."
- Are Priorities at Your Organization Confused?
- Being Safety Conscious in a Difficult Economy
"Toyota's priorities have been first safety, second quality and third volume. These priorities became confused," said Akio Toyoda, Toyota's President, when he testified in front of the US Congress in February regarding the safety problems which led to a worldwide recall of 8.5 million vehicles. With the challenges our businesses face in difficult economic times, it becomes very easy to confuse priorities.
- Ask the Business Doctor - My company is basically compliant with all safety regulations...
- Question: My company is basically compliant with all the safety regulations yet we still have a very high incident rate. What else should we be doing? Linda M., Buffalo, NY
- Free Engineering Support from SATOP
- Does your small business face a technical challenge? The Space Alliance Technology Outreach Program (SATOP) wants to help. SATOP is designed to make the know-how of the U.S. Space Program available to small businesses (up to 500 employees) to encourage economic growth and raise public awareness of the space industry.
- Annual Report 2009
- 2009 Annual Report for Insyte Consulting and TDC Foundation, Inc.
