Partners for manufacturing success
Colorado roots, national impact. We are Manufacturer’s Edge, Colorado’s official MEP Center and dedicated partner to manufacturers across our state and beyond.
More than manufacturing
As Colorado’s official Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Center, we provide onsite support, strategy, planning, training, and technical assistance to manufacturers of all sizes. Colorado’s unique manufacturing landscape has given us experience across industries. Our clients drive technology development, creativity, and new products, and we work closely with them to make sure their work reaches its intended audience. Local insights, diverse experience, and true dedication to providing manufacturers support – use the support we provide to empower your decisions as you continue to grow and improve the manufacturing landscape.
Our Core Values
Mission Driven
Trustworthy
Respectful
Proactive
Stronger Together
Part of the MEP National Network
The MEP National Network is a unique public-private partnership that delivers comprehensive, proven solutions to U.S. manufacturers, fueling growth and advancing U.S. manufacturing. Focused on helping manufacturers generate business results and thrive in today’s technology-driven economy, the MEP National Network comprises the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership (NIST MEP), 51 MEP Centers located in all 50 states and Puerto Rico, and its 1,300 trusted advisors and experts at nearly 600 MEP service locations, providing any U.S. manufacturer with access to resources they need to succeed.
- All Partners
- Founding Sponsors
- Sponsors
- Strategic Partners
- Economic Development Partners
- Industry & Technology Partners
Our Partners
All Partners
We partner strategically with other dedicated organizations that can provide resources, training, and more to the Colorado manufacturing community.
Founding Sponsors
As a non-profit organization, our founding sponsors allow us to expand our services and reach more manufacturers, especially in rural areas and underserved communities.
Sponsors
Strategic Partners
Our strategic partnerships create a deep and active connection between local businesses and the tools and resources needed to thrive locally, nationally, and abroad
Economic Development Partners
We work closely with our economic development partners to attract and retain businesses - together we ensure that manufacturers in each region have access to the resources they need to succeed
Industry & Technology Partners
By partnering with industry groups and trade associations, we are able to closely monitor emerging trends and developments to better position our clients for future success
Our Team
Favorite project helping a manufacturer:
It’s always fun when I help a manufacturer apply for grant funds and they are approved, which allows them to get the training they need!
What do you love about your role?
I love the opportunity to help Manufacturer’s Edge run better so that we can continue helping Manufacturers
How would your teammates describe you?
I take my job seriously, but not myself
Favorite project helping a manufacturer:
Any project that assists a manufacturer in achieving their goals and grow their business. I love knowing that a project not only helps that client, but is also supporting our economy and my community!
What do you love about your role?
Building strong relationships with the manufacturers in Western Colorado.I love touring a new facitlity and getting to know the client and learn about their business, then being able to provide them opportunities to grow.
How would your teammates describe you?
Positive, honest and fun.
Favorite project helping a manufacturer:
Can I ditto Tracey’s answer?? 🙂
What do you love about your role?
The satisfaction of accurately reporting the financial side of our business and keeping us in good standing with our Federal Funders. Also, the amazing people on this team that I get to work with every day.
How would your teammates describe you?
Quiet, level headed, reliable
Favorite project helping a manufacturer:
Through collaborating with our SBDC and EDC partners, I have been able to help several different companies in more remote areas of Colorado to grow and scale with specific actionable steps to implement their goals. We all have amazing dreams and it’s so fulfilling to help people fulfill theirs!
What do you love about your role?
The wide variety of types of manufacturer’s we work with allows me to continually learn and makes every day different! I love helping people find solutions.
How would your teammates describe you?
solutions oriented teamplayer
Favorite project helping a manufacturer:
I love touring factories and learning “How it’s Done”. Any factories! Having traveled around the world to different manufacturers, everyone has a unique approach. Each tour adds a bit of knowledge to me. It helps me to learn best practices that I can hopefully help our clients. It amazes me the creativity brought on by a specific need that factories put in place. It is my goal to help wherever I can, and it is often the little hints that help the most.
What do you love about your role?
Networking. I love to put people and opportunities together. Walking into a room, I truly believe that there are NO strangers. Networking is a contact sport. Helping people is what I enjoy doing.
How would your teammates describe you?
Willing to throw myself in front of the train. Very energetic, sometimes too energetic. Willing to help wherever I can.
Favorite project helping a manufacturer:
Watching so many manufacturer’s go from zero to sixty and knowing Manufacturer’s EDGE was a huge part of it.
What do you love about your role?
Representing Manufacturer’s EDGE; our team is awesome and our clients are great to work with and such incredible people.
How would your teammates describe you?
Innovative and fun!
Favorite project helping a manufacturer:
My favorite project helping a manufacturer was working with an accelerated growth hemp company in Colorado Springs to augment their marketing department by placing high-end production print and finishing equipment into their facility. This initiative enabled them to save tens of thousands of dollars by all but eliminating their need to outsource print marketing by printing projects in-house and on-demand while also reducing turn-times needed for quick turn print projects.
What do you love about your role?
Over the years I’ve helped manufacturing clients improve in all areas of their business whether it be HR, engineering, operations and everything in between. I love helping businesses grow, evolve and succeed and the opportunity to do just that is what most excites me about how we help our clients here at Manufacturer’s Edge.
How would your teammates describe you?
My teammates would describe me as a client relationship focused consultant with a strong penchant for identifying and closing new business opportunites.
Favorite project helping a manufacturer:
Working with clients and being on the cusp of immense opportunity, as companies learn how to leverage disruptive technologies to transform operations. I’m excited everyday about creating more effecient, profitable and safer products, protocols and solutions.
What do you love about your role?
Supply chains are extremely linear and moving towards 2023 and beyond, I LOVE helping teams evolve into end-to-end integration and digitally enabling supply networks to redefine their innovative work.
How would your teammates describe you?
Quiet but mighty
Favorite project helping a manufacturer:
My favorite projects with manufacturers are the ones where we have a chance to get to know the company, the business, and the people and are able to bring resources to needs seen and unseen. The manufacturer that started because they loved making things and now, due to their own success, have found themselves making money and having to run a business that needs to add employees, scale operations, and deal with the every-day challenges, but are still using spreadsheets to manage data and want to keep their culture and their people – these are my favorite clients.
What do you love about your role?
Everything. After having worked in the private sector, federal and state government, and at a university, I can honestly say that serving as the COO for Manufacturer’s Edge is the most fun I have ever had at work. I love that in my role I get to help lead a non-profit with a mission that runs like a business with a team of smart, talented, and interesting individuals with diverse workstyles and personalities that are each valued for the unique perspectives and solutions they bring to our work every day.
How would your teammates describe you?
Passionate, determined, protective, assertive and resourceful (alternatively, “the one you call when you have one call.”)
Favorite project helping a manufacturer:
Working at ME for the past 9 years has turned me into a total manufacturing fanatic! My favorite thing is meeting manufacturers and seeing their infectious passion, touring their facilities, and then seeing their products out in the world. My kids get really tired of me pointing out all of the products that I know. “We don’t care where that table came from, Mom!” But, I do and I think it’s super cool. They will too, eventually.
What do you love about your role?
I came from the world of the arts and I always tell people that manufacturers are just like artists. They are driven to create something that will make the world better and I am priveleged enough to help elevate their stories and reinforce how important their roles are within our society, our economy, and our daily lives. It’s basically the coolest job around!
How would your teammates describe you?
Fun loving, upbeat, optimistic
Favorite project helping a manufacturer:
I wouldn’t be able to single out just one. I love seeing the impactful results our clients receive and knowing we helped their business in a variety of ways. It makes the manufacturing community that much stronger in Colorado.
What do you love about your role?
My role allows me to have insight to all aspects of our business and what our company can and does provide to manufacturers. I feel I learn something new each week!
How would your teammates describe you?
Reliable, honest, and loves to have fun!
Favorite project helping a manufacturer:
Developing a solution with a food manufacturer that improved their HR processes, resulting in better onboarding and hiring practices that reduced turnover by 50%.
What do you love about your role?
The challenge of finding just the right resources that can meet our client’s problems head on; turning a “How do I do this?” moment into a “That is just what I need!” moment.
How would your teammates describe you?
A versatile supporter: according to my MBTI report.
Favorite project helping a manufacturer:
Even though I don’t have a lot of direct interaction with manufacturers, I love knowing that what I do supports the health of the manufacturing industry and the Colorado economy!
What do you love about your role?
Spreadsheets, spreadsheets, spreadsheets! (I’m not kidding.)
How would your teammates describe you?
Baker extraordinaire