A Meadville Stimulus

Due to the current economic crisis, the local tool and die industry has been adversely affected. It is our goal to contact firms and learn exactly what is happening across the industry. Professor Steve Onyeiwu, Matt McLamb, and I have been working hard to get this project off the ground. Our study is focused on companies located within Crawford and Erie counties.

So far, we have interviewed 10 firms primarily in the Meadville area. In the coming weeks, we plan to investigate between 30 and 40 additional companies. We will begin to branch outside of Meadville and to firms with different manufacturing processes.

This week we plan on creating a hypothesis for which we can prove at the end of the project. As well, we well continue to visit companies, get plant tours, and talk to company presidents.
In August, Matt and I look forward to publishing a newspaper article in the Meadville Tribune regarding our final findings.