Listen to SSTI's Interview with Wayne Sumple and Bob Torrani of the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology
Listen to Wayne Sumple and Bob Torrani respond to the following questions in this clip (approximately 10 minutes):
- Can you provide a brief history and describe the focus of the Center for Manufacturing Supply Chain Integration program?
- What are the main thrusts of the program and how do you advance each of these thrusts?
- Is there a critical component of the program, if excluded when attempted to be replicated in another state or region, would limit its effectiveness?
Listen to the 10-minute condensed version of the interview or the full conversation (18 minutes).
About CCAT's Manufacturing and Supply Chain Integration
The Connecticut Center for Manufacturing Supply Chain Integration
was established by the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology in 2005 to promote supply chain development and integration and to stimulate process improvement at small and medium-sized manufacturers in the aerospace and defense sector. To date, 244 process improvement projects have decreased lead time, cycle time and changeover time, and increased quality levels and space utilization allowing companies to take on new business, adding 686 high-wage jobs to the Connecticut economy.
About
the Excellence in TBED Awards
The SSTI Excellence in TBED Awards recognize
exceptional achievement in addressing elements that have been found in
successful tech-based economies. These include a research base that
generates new knowledge, mechanisms for transferring knowledge into the
marketplace, an entrepreneurial culture, sources of risk capital, and a
technically skilled workforce.
For more information about the SSTI Excellence in TBED Awards, visit http://www.sstiawards.org.