NEO entrepreneurs aim to create a multi-billion-dollar waste-to-energy company
After a two-year growth spurt, MAGNET Incubator client Vadxx has an MOU with industry giant Rockwell Automation to build its modular waste-to-energy plants. Find out how MAGNET's engineering services helped these entrepreneurs prove their concept as well as build a network of lifelines with funders and partners.

MAGNET team helps start-up Cleveland Whiskey distill success
Serial entrepreneur Tom Lix has a great idea: advanced technology to accelerate the maturation of whiskey, so that it will take weeks, instead of years, to produce fine spirits. He'd tested his idea in a small lab in his basement, but now he needed a full-size, proof-of-concept lab to attract serious investors. He found financing, expertise and practical help at MAGNET.

Precision machine shop ups its QM game to enter new markets
Jim Trecokas just wouldn't let global competition or the recession stop his company from thriving. When things looked bleakest, Trec Industries, Inc., implemented a new quality management system, enabling it to seize new opportunities.

Morrison Products maps its way through the Great Recession
"We were putting together this strategic plan just when business fell off the cliff for everybody," says Morrison's President and CEO Harry Holmes. "That turned out to be lucky for us." Despite the recession, the company's rejuvenated focus helped it increase sales by $1 million in the first year.

SIFCO "Forges" a streamlined corporate culture with its SMART continuous improvement initiative
SMART stands for "Streamlined Manufacturing Activities to Reduce Time and Cost." See how MAGNET's consultants helped SIFCO Forge Group "work smarter," increasing sales $6.5 million in just the first year.

Innovate or die
Thermotion Corp. reached out to MAGNET's Product Design & Development engineering team to help it take a business-critical technology innovation from concept to commercialization.

Industrial transformer manufacturer transforms its culture with lean workshop
Trenco's new VP of Ops used MAGNET's Lean 101 Training workshop to kick-start the company's transition to a lean-focused culture.

A raw materials price spike threatened this manufacturer's survival
When immediate, high-impact help was needed to get inventory under control, Crown Battery's CEO called MAGNET.

Small company finds its R&D team at MAGNET PDD
RIT Rescue & Escape Systems' Omar Jordan hit a brick wall while developing an essential new product. MAGNET Product Development & Design engineers helped RIT break through the static and get an important new product to the marketplace.

Small device packs big impact
A MAGNET senior design engineer created a compact universal package opener that delivered big savings for American Greetings.

Workforce Transformation: Severstal Warren
In only two years, MAGNET Consultants helped Severstal Warren generate an estimated ROI of more than $3.3 million thanks to a new skills training program that reduced maintenance job classifications at the plant from 20 to two.

From compelling idea to startling innovation
With assistance from MAGNET PDD engineers, an entrepreneur's original idea to eliminate leaking toilets became the first Level 5 innovation in toilet technology in more than 50 years.

Small-shop precision grinding company grows into a global competitor
Using MAGNET to help implement an ISO9001:2000 quality project allowed family-owned Jamar Precision Grinding to reach for the international marketplace.