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NEPIRC

Name: NEPIRC
Address: 75 Young Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 18706, US
Telephone: +15708198966
Price range: $$

NEPIRC works with manufacturing clients on consultative engagements designed to address their unique challenges and maximize their profitability.

NEPIRC is a public-private partnership consultancy specializing in solution services and training programs for small and mid-sized manufacturers in northeastern, northern, and north central PA to help them be competitive, profitable and growth-minded. NEPIRC is a not-for-profit organization that has been providing world-class professional services exclusively to manufacturers throughout northeastern and northern Pennsylvania since 1988. NEPIRC’s staff of professional business advisors and highly-qualified specialists design customized solutions for NEPIRC clients that enable them to adopt industry best practices, implement next generation manufacturing strategies, achieve profitable growth, successfully enter new markets and innovate new products and, ultimately, achieve profitability levels that exceed industry benchmarks.

09/25/2026

A lot of plants know they should walk the floor with a fresh set of eyes on safety. The hard part is finding the time and the extra capacity to do it well.
NEPIRC offers a complimentary EHS safety walk for manufacturers. We walk the facility with your safety team, look at the areas that tend to create risk, and put the observations and suggestions into a written report.

Typical focus areas include:
- Walking and working surfaces
- Exit routes and fire protection
- PPE
- Electrical and lighting
- Chemical hazards
- Emergency action plans
- Machine guarding, material handling, and fall protection

It is an observation walk, not a full audit. You stay responsible for your safety program. What you get is another trained set of eyes and a report you can actually use.
If you want one scheduled, reach out.
[email protected]

09/24/2026

Need extra engineering help on a project, but not another full-time hire?

That’s the problem NEPIRC built Rent an Engineer around.

Our team can step in on:
- Industrial engineering
- Process improvement (Lean and Six Sigma)
- Operational effectiveness
- Layout design and facility expansion

You get experienced capacity for the work in front of you. Your headcount stays the same.

If you’ve got a layout, a bottleneck, or an expansion sitting on the board and need a second set of hands, reach out. We’ll set up a consultation, reach out at [email protected]

www.NEPIRC.com
(570) 819-8966

09/23/2026

NEPIRC is hosting our first Advanced Technology & AI Summit!

Thursday, October 29, 2026
7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Mohegan Pennsylvania, Wilkes-Barre

This is not a lecture series. It’s a half-day built for manufacturers who want to see what AI, robots, cobots, and automation actually look like on a shop floor.

What you’ll get:
- Keynote from Jake Hall, The Manufacturing Millennial: “AI’s Impact on - Manufacturing. What You Should Know.”
- An AI breakout with Jake immediately after
- Panel with Joe Onderko of Path Robotics, Garry Hartman of Cheetah Chassis, and Mike DeRosier of Advent Design
- A technology session from Fred Reck of InnoTek
- Breakfast, networking, and an exhibitor showcase packed with real factory-floor tech

Tickets are FREE for Manufacturers. $50 for Non-Manufacturers.
Breakfast is included. Parking is free.

Seats will go. Register now and show up ready:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nepirc-advanced-technology-ai-summit-tickets-1989918999294

Bring your plant manager. Bring your ops lead. Bring the person who’s been asking “so what do we do with AI?”

October 29. Mohegan Pennsylvania. Let’s put Northeastern PA manufacturers at the front of this shift!

09/22/2026

Strong teams don't happen by accident. They are built intentionally.

Our Team Building Workshop helps organizations strengthen team effectiveness by focusing on the foundations of high-performing teams:
✅ Building trust
✅ Engaging in productive conflict
✅ Creating commitment
✅ Fostering peer accountability
✅ Driving collective results
✅ Developing an intentional team culture

Since it's inception, we've seen incredible success with this workshop. Time and again, team members make meaningful connections, gain a deeper understanding of one another, and break down barriers that might otherwise take years to overcome.
When trust grows and communication improves, teams become more collaborative, engaged, and effective.

If you have a team that could benefit from stronger relationships and improved performance, we'd love to help. Reach out and see the magic happen.

09/21/2026

Why is Leadership Development Essentials our most popular leadership offering?

Because it goes beyond leadership theory and focuses on real people, real challenges, and real growth.

As we prepare for our upcoming sessions, stacks of participant binders are beginning to fill our office. But we don't see binders. We see future conversations, fresh perspectives, new connections, and leaders ready to invest in themselves and their teams.

Every cohort brings unique experiences that make the program stronger, and we're honored to be part of each participant's leadership journey.

Our next public Leadership Development Essentials session kicks off next Tuesday, September 29 at our Hanover office, and we'd love to have you join us.

🔗 Learn more: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/8-week-leadership-development-essentials-registration-1989838087284?aff=oddtdtcreator
Seats fill quickly, so don't miss your chance to experience the program everyone is talking about!

09/18/2026

We're excited to share that today we are facilitating our first ever Leadership Development Essentials program delivered entirely in Spanish!

As our most popular leadership offering, Leadership Development Essentials has helped countless supervisors, team leads, and emerging leaders build the skills needed to lead with confidence and drive results. We're incredibly proud to make this program more accessible to our Spanish-speaking workforce and clients.

Investing in leadership development strengthens organizations, empowers employees, and creates lasting impact throughout the manufacturing industry. Being able to deliver this experience in Spanish allows us to reach and develop even more leaders who are critical to the success of their organizations.

We are honored to continue our mission of changing the workplace one class at a time for this audience.

09/17/2026

Technical skill gets you in the door. Emotional intelligence is what keeps a team from coming apart once you’re in the room.

NEPIRC is running Emotional Intelligence and Motivation on Thursday, October 8, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Online. Three hours. Interactive.

Explore why emotional intelligence is the foundation of effective leadership and a critical driver of motivation and performance. Participants will examine how self‑awareness, self‑management, social awareness, and relationship management influence leadership impact and team dynamics. The session focuses on how leaders can use these core emotional intelligence skills to better understand what motivates their people, respond productively to challenges, and create conditions where individuals and teams are able to do their best work.

This is the stuff that shows up on the floor and in the office every day: reading the room, keeping people engaged, handling tension before it turns into a problem, and actually motivating a crew instead of just telling them to care.

If you lead people, sit in the middle of a team, or you’re tired of meetings that go nowhere, this one’s for you.

Register here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/emotional-intelligence-and-motivation-tickets-1989110102863

09/16/2026

NEPIRC’s OSHA 10 for General Industry is back this October. Three Wednesday mornings. Real classroom. Real credential.

October 7, 14, and 21
8:00 a.m. to noon
NEPIRC, Wilkes-Barre

Walking surfaces. Electrical. PPE. Hazard communication. Fire and exit routes. Plus the extras that actually show up on a shop floor: machine guarding, material handling, industrial hygiene.

No experience required. Built for people already on the job and people trying to get on the job. Eligible for WedNetPA funding. Miss the hours, you don’t get the card. Show up for all 10 and you walk out with the OSHA credential.

Register here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/osha-10-training-course-for-general-industry-tickets-1993466621327

09/14/2026

Join us in person at NEPIRC on Thursday, September 24 from 9 to 11 a.m. for AI & Machine Learning. Two hours, no jargon. We will walk through the basics, look at applications manufacturers are using today, and talk about how to put AI and machine learning to work in your own operation.

This is for plant leaders, engineers, and anyone who wants practical takeaways they can take back to the floor.

If you could apply AI to one process in your plant this year, what would it be? Tell us in the comments, then reserve your seat.

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ai-machine-learning-tickets-1993466248211

NEPIRC, 75 Young Street, Hanover Township, PA 18706

09/11/2026

Starting a Continuous Improvement effort with a Kaizen event or a plant layout can work. It can also send a team chasing the wrong problem.

The first useful step is usually simpler: know where you actually stand.
NEPIRC offers a no-cost CI assessment so manufacturers can get a clear baseline before they spend time and money on projects. A CI specialist comes on site, observes the work, talks with the people doing it, and maps current state against five areas:

Business performance
People and culture
Flow and standards
CI tools and methods
Business systems

What you walk away with is practical. Gaps between current performance and the goals you care about. A starting roadmap. A baseline you can measure against later. And the “low hanging fruit” that is easy to miss when you live in the process every day.

If your team is talking about Lean, lead time, or efficiency but is not sure where to begin, this is a clean place to start.

Learn more at NEPIRC.com or email [email protected].

Address

75 Young Street
Wilkes-Barre, PA
18706

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	8am - 5pm

Telephone

+15708198966

Website

http://www.NEPIRC.com/

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