EMC Canada - Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium of Cana...

Website

www.emccanada.org

Description

EMC Canada is a unique not-for-profit organization of manufacturers, incorporated to facilitate member development of manufacturing best practices and improved competitiveness, as strong networked communities of world-class businesses. EMC Canada was founded during the mid-1980's and incorporated in 1997. EMC Canada is responsible for providing primary expertise and services to more than 650 members participating through 45 regional consortia, encompassing 175 communities in Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. EMC Canada member manufacturers represent all sectors of industry and the economic impact of EMC member initiatives is significant. EMC Canada initiatives are benefiting manufacturers throughout Canada and include a world-class Learning Centre for Lean, Leadership, Health & Safety and Human Capital best practices improvement and skills development training, Member-Needs-Help information service, Safety Groups and more.

EMC Ontario is a not-for-profit provincial branch of EMC Canada (please see EMC Canada for organizational overview). EMC was founded in Ontario/Canada by 12 original member manufacturers in Owen Sound, Ontario.The diverse composition of the group and the unique networking/clustering infrastructure developed through EMC has provided a successful model that has been implemented across Ontario and Atlantic Canada. Ontario Consortium Groups/Regions are located across the province in south-Western, south-Central, Eastern, Central, north-Eastern and Northern Ontario.