Grand Traverse Area Manufacturing Council

Make Great Things.

The Grand Traverse Area Manufacturing Council was established to promote long-term thinking, education, and collaboration through people and companies that allow us to make great things in northern Michigan. It’s our mission to support a sustainable and globally competitive manufacturing sector for a stronger economy.

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Highlighted Events

Don’t miss out on these great opportunities to network, learn, and share with other area businesses and manufacturers.

Mfg. Summit | March 2, 2021

A very special thank you to all our Platinum sponsors: Rehmann, Chemical Bank, Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center (MMTC), and Skilled Manufacturing Inc. for helping to make this amazing event possible.

Golf Outing | September 25, 2020

On the last Friday of September, manufacturers across northern Michigan gather to support the Manufacturing Technology Academy (MTA) of Traverse City in our annual Manufacturers Charity Golf Outing.

Manufacturing Day | October 2, 2020

First Friday of October is national Manufacturing Day! The GTAMC is excited for another successful year as we look to bring 850 students into 40 different manufacturing facilities. Thank you for your support!

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Making an Impact Across the Region

Value Proposition: A strong manufacturing community benefits the economy of northern Michigan. Innovation is spawned by sharing best practices and ideas. Council initiatives will positively impact company operations and/or profitability. Individual relationships developed through Council membership can provide a valuable network to the benefit of member companies as well as companies of the region.

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What’s Up? Local Manufacturing News

Grand Traverse Area manufacturing news – Read the latest news and information about local manufacturing across northern Michigan. Learn more about local manufacturing events, education, company news, industry trends and more….

Are You Making Michigan’s Coolest Product?

by Kevin Olds

In 2018, the iconic Stormy Kromer cap caught the attention of Michigan and became the first-ever “Coolest Thing Made in Michigan” and the innovative ingenuity to produce a custom booster essential for testing across countless industries earned...

Industry 4.0 Grant Opportunity

by Kevin Olds

The Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center (MMTC) is administering a grant to help companies who are seeking to invest in Industry 4.0 technologies. Through the grant, companies may be reimbursed for labor costs related to the deployment of the...

Notes from 05/15 GTAMC/TAHRA Joint Discussion – COVID Return to Work

by Kevin Olds

General Topic: Recalling employees back to work (furloughed, laid off, etc.) What have been your organization's successes and challenges of recalling employees? Response 1 Took about a week to get everyone back and organized, they received a letter...

Featured Member: KATA Engineering Inc

WHY CHOOSE KATA?

Our Invisible Secret Sauce…

We use an invisible tool to make great things.

We founded KATA Engineering based on our beliefs that goals are accomplished through an invisible choreographed process of problem solving.

This invisible purpose makes us different. Period.

Our purpose is to survive by continuous improvement and ask for challenges, not to just make production and work around problems.

We don’t hit goals by accident. We don’t act before we have a target condition. We first understand the current state deeply, then we create a series of small target condition steps to ultimately achieve goals.

All of this is done through coaching and harnessing the invisible problem solving power of people.

LET’S MAKE IT WORK!

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Learn. Network. Grow.

Community Events: Not only does the GTAMC meet regularly to discuss and collaborate on a variety of topics related to manufacturing and business development — but we also partner, sponsor, and promote an assortment of events throughout the area. These meetings and events are a great way to: