On Tuesday June 15^th the Windsor Consortium of Excellence in Manufacturing participated in a comprehensive peer to peer leaning SIG Event.

The session dealt with best practices in Claims Management.

Lisa Granger from EMC Member Company Mahle Filter Systems in Tilbury Ont led the discussion. Lisa presented the Claims Management Program she has developed at Mahle, which is highly innovative and successful. Lisa has presented this program to the Chatham-Kent Consortium, London Consortium and...

On Wednesday April 14^th, 2010 the Windsor Consortiums inaugural Strategic Interest Group Event (SIG) took place…..It was a resounding success! Norm Marcoux and Darryl Dufresne of Advanced Machining Services hosted the event at their very impressive facility located at 3232 Electricity Dr. in Windsor.

The goal of this first event was for members to meet each other, talk about some of the issues they are facing and benchmark/best practice share with each other.

Norm and Darryl from Advanced shared...

At this very first EMC SIG Event the Windsor Consortium will discuss topics they want to explore and cover during the remainder of 2010. We will put together the framework for these monthly sessions to ensure all members get great value from them!

Also at this event Advanced Machining Services will cover some of their best practices including how they have successful diversified their customer base over the past few years. This diversification has put Advanced in the position to expect great...

November 24^th, 2009 saw the official launch of EMC in Windsor! Being born and raised in Windsor I am very happy it has finally happened. Windsor-Essex was one of the last areas in Ontario that EMC did not have formal Consortium in….and know it does!

Presently the Consortium consists of 7 EMC Member Companies. By the end of January, middle of February I would like to see that number up to 15 to 20 companies than by March we will start having Strategic Interest Group (SIG's) sessions in Windsor....

On Tuesday November 24th the Windsor Consortium of Excellence in Manufacturing was officially launched! The launch took place at the Fogolar Furlan Club with over 45 Windsor-Essex Manufacturing companies in attendance. They were there to hear from EMC President and General Manager Al Diggins how the EMC model of manufacturers working together in a local Consortium can strengthen the whole sector and help them all achieve world class.