MAGNET supports manufacturers and champions manufacturing in Northern Ohio.

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Mission:

The Manufacturing Advocacy & Growth Network supports and champions manufacturing in Northern Ohio.

MAGNET is a “one-stop shop” for entrepreneurs and technology-driven manufacturers seeking resources to become or remain globally competitive.

Results: Calendar Years 2007 and 2008:

$244,220,000 Increased or Retained Sales$ 35,674,000 Cost Savings$ 91,248,000 Investment

$371,143,000 Total Economic Impact

2,731 Jobs Created or Retained

From the President & CEO

David M. FoutsMAGNET President & CEO

Service Region

Akron:

Akro-Mils/Myers Industries

Signs & Blanks Inc.

Aurora:

National Pump & Process Inc.

Rotek Incorporated

Twinsburg:

Pepsi Americas

Polystar Inc.

Visual Marking Systems

Fairlawn:

Veyance Technologies Inc.

Streetsboro:

Safeguard Technology Inc.

Solon:

Environmental Wall Systems, Ltd

Pressco Technology Inc.

Swagelok Company

Thermedx, LLC

Zebra Skimmers Corp.

Zircoa

Stow:

Audio Technica U.S. Inc.

Esterle Mold & Machine Company

National Machine Company

SPirol International Corp.

Vavl-Trol Company

MAGNET services are available to around 16,000 manufacturers in 33 Northern Ohio counties

MAGNET currently has active projects with these 20 companies in the Hudson area:

Nelson Pitlor, PresidentAccessMount

Productivity

• Lean for Manufacturing

• Lean Product Development

• Lean Business, Administrative & Support

• Workforce Transformation

• Supply Chain Optimization/Logistics

• Quality Management

Innovation

• Product Development

• Growth Planning

• Eureka! Winning Ways

• Marketing Strategy & Sales

Innovation – Defense Consulting

• MAGNET Consultants help win DoD projects for Ohio manufacturers.

• Military Hummer

Innovation Process

Innovation

Ideation Prototyping

Design Industrial design

3D-modelingFinite element

analysis

Mechanical systems design

Testing

Design validation Market research

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Competitiveness

Companies that enter MAGNET’s friendly annual competition learn to:

• Plan and implement a strategy• Benchmark the value proposition• Improve teamwork• Showcase strong leadership• Improve top-line and bottom-line results

2008 Competitiveness Challenge Results:• 14 participating companies• 20 new products• 136 new or retained jobs• $250 million regional economic impact

The Competitiveness Challenge

Business IncubationThe Northeast Ohio Incubator Collaborative

Five incubators provide services to entrepreneurs in the 21 counties of Northeast Ohio.

• Akron Global Business Accelerator• Braintree Partners (Mansfield)• Great Lakes Incubator for Developing Enterprises (GLIDE) (Lorain County)• MAGNET Incubator (Cuyahoga County)• Youngstown Business Incubator

Results: 2005 to 2008:

$304 million Sales Revenue$ 81 million Investment Capital$ 39 million Employee Payroll

754 Jobs

Business Incubation

5i Tech, LLC Advanced BioSensors

Aria Analytics Contained Energy

Freedom Meditech DX-PRN, Inc.

Gas Tran SystemsJW Great Lakes Wind

LLC

NanoMimetics, Inc.Innovative Process

Administration

Osteosymbionics, LLC NCRx

Stanton Advanced Ceramics

NexTec 3D Technologies

VOX Mobile Spray Redux, LLC

W.C. Curry & Associates Storage Continuity

Zodiac Infotech, LLC Websology

Current Graduates

Jim Zedella, PresidentInnovative Process Administration

Business IncubationCuyahoga County New Product Development Loan Fund

Available to entrepreneurs and small manufacturers.

$3.25 million for new product development since 2005.

Community of Smaller Manufacturers

For companies with sales under $25 million.

• Coaching• Web-based guided learning• Streamlined consulting services• Performance benchmarking• Networking events

Achieve top-line growth, bottom-line savings and improved profitability.

Chris Azedourian, PresidentCutting Systems, Inc.

Education & Training

The MAGNET Education Initiative aims to solve the urgent image and skills-gap issues that face the manufacturing industry in Northeast Ohio.

MAGNET staff partner with manufacturers, education-and-training institutions, the public workforce system and like-minded community organizations. Current initiatives include:

• Northeast Ohio Dream It! Do It! Web Site

• Manufacturing Ambassador Program

• WVIZ/NOTA Careers Broadcasts

• Cleveland Cavaliers Awards Program

Building a 21st Century Workforce

Global Business Development

2009 Global Events:

Keep Your Business Growing with increased Global Export Sales, March 19

Going Global Today, May 12

2009 Update on High-Tech & Environmental Regulations, June 4

Connecting Northern Ohio manufacturers to world markets

Public Policy & Advocacy

“We had a serious issue with the Dept. of Commerce. [MAGNET’s Director of Public Policy] Michael Kobylka quickly made calls to Sen. Voinovich’s office to arrange a meeting in Washington.

It is good to experience first-hand the willingness of people to help when there is an emergency.”

--Matthew C. LitzlerPresident, C.A. Litzler Co.

The Voice of Manufacturing for Northeast Ohio

Case Study

Innovation

New Product Development

An idea is born…

Innovation – Siphon Flush

Ohio businessman Walter Beery received a $500 water bill for his unoccupied Arizona vacation home.

The culprit: a degraded flapper on the toilet had let thousands of gallons escape without a sound.

Beery came to MAGNET with the germ of an idea for creating a fool-proof system to stop toilet leaks.

MAGNET engineers began with research.

Innovation – Siphon Flush

MAGNET research showed government agencies estimate that 6 trillion gallons of water is leaking out of toilets every day—equivalent to the volume of water going over Niagara Falls every 2.2 hours.

The Culprit: The rubber flapper

Innovation – Siphon Flush

“I knew we had to look for the absolute root cause.

In the end—the key was to pull the flapper out of the model and force ourselves to think outside the box.”

—Walter G. Berry, CEOAmerican Innovative Products

Concept Break Through: The Reverse Trap

Innovation – Siphon Flush

Kitchen Trap: Water prevents sewer fumes from escaping back up the plumbing into the house

Reverse Trap: Air bubble prevents water from escaping from the toilet

Innovation – Siphon FlushConcept Evolution: The Siphon Flush

Siphon: A continuous tube that allows liquid to drain from a reservoir through an intermediate point that is higher, or lower, than the reservoir.

The flow is driven only by the difference in hydrostatic pressure without any need for pumping.

The final end of the tube must be lower than the liquid surface in the reservoir.

Innovation – Siphon FlushInnovation Breakthrough

March 2009: Named to the prestigious “PM100” 2009 Progressive Manufacturing Awards sponsored by Manufacturing Automation magazine

April 2009: Production begins

Walter G. Beery, CEOAmerican Innovative Products

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