Services

Through our partnership with FloridaMakes, SRMA members have access to a full suite of no-cost and low-cost business assessments designed to help you find where the opportunity — and the risk — is hiding in your operation: We strengthen Florida's manufacturing sector by helping manufacturers expand market opportunities, develop customized business strategies, adopt best practices and assess opportunities for new technology and training through the following services.

Enterprise Performance Assessment — a Baldrige-based review of your leadership, strategy, operations, and workforce practices, with a roadmap for improvement
Business Continuity / Disaster Readiness Assessment — a rapid online tool (results in minutes) that gauges how prepared your company is for a hurricane or other disruption, plus a deeper Business Continuity Plan option
Cybersecurity Gap Analysis — benchmarks your company against DFARS, NIST 800-171, and CMMC requirements, with a roadmap to compliance
Capacity Analysis — models your current production capacity and simulates future-state scenarios before you invest in equipment or headcount

Beyond assessments, your FloridaMakes and the Southwest Regional Manufacturers Association advisors can help identify grant funding and cost-share training dollars to help offset the cost of the training and consulting your assessment recommends.

Performance Assessments

This process provides companies with expert evaluation on how well the company’s goals, plans, processes and measures are aligned; strengths and opportunities for improvement for each category; and recommendations for key cross-cutting improvements.

Executive Services

Thinking about everything can be daunting – from championing your strategy, to mitigating risk, to business development – FloridaMakes and the Southwest Regional Manufacturers Association has you covered.

Technology Acceleration & Innovation

FloridaMakes and the Southwest Regional Manufacturers Association can help your company learn about new technologies and their business implications and applications; identify and deploy new technologies to solve problems or gain competitive advantage; increase access to applicable research and technology available at federal labs and universities and help navigate the process; and commercialize new technology.

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity and information security are a constantly increasing challenge for Florida's manufacturers, from threats and requirements imposed by major prime contractors and government contracts to everyday theft and fraud, as well as threats of disruption or data loss from malware and ransomware attacks.

Market Development

FloridaMakes and the Southwest Regional Manufacturers Association can help you identify a growth strategy for your existing products, or for diversifying your corporate strategy to enter new products. From strategy and research to product development and training, we’re here to help.

Continuous Improvement

Reduce your costs, increase your quality, become more agile and competitive. Improve your bottom-line and make yourself ready for top-line gains. FloridaMakes and the Southwest Regional Manufacturers Association can help you with improvements that can be implemented in any part of your company, no matter you size or industry.

Supply Chain Optimization

FloridaMakes and the Southwest Regional Manufacturers Association is connected to a nationwide initiative to support supply chain optimization. For your company, that means we can identify the technology needs and trends of specific supply chains, provide a step-by-step roadmap to help you address risk, increase visibility and create opportunity – as a supplier or in developing your own supply chain for the parts and processing you need.

Talent Development

Finding, training and retaining skilled workers is one of the top issues facing manufacturers across the country. FloridaMakes and the Southwest Regional Manufacturers Association collaborates with local, state and national public and private resources to deliver specialized training, worker certification, hands-on experience, management training and other advanced manufacturing education programs needed for today’s high-skilled jobs.

Standards & Regulatory Compliance

FloridaMakes and the Southwest Regional Manufacturers Association helps manufacturers achieve excellence in in implementation, compliance, and training. We help you match and, in many cases, exceed industry standards, and when something is outside of our expertise, we connect you to the best. This is a sampling of how we assist manufacturers.

Disaster Resources

As the COVID-19 health crisis impacts global supply chains, the FloridaMakes and the Southwest Regional Manufacturers Association Network is here to support Florida's manufacturing industry. We recognize that your company is facing new challenges daily during the crisis and you are being asked to rethink, redesign, and reallocate resources.

Ready to get started? Contact the SRMA now!