FBT Inc.: federal grants and contributions: 7 agreements; $5.1M value; 2 departments; 5 programs.
Assay record ASY-CA-08LBG520UK · Cite as: Assay Systems, “FBT Inc.: federal grants and contributions”, https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/r/fbt-inc/
To increase production capabilities of precision tooling components through the adoption of advanced manufacturing equipment.
To increase competitiveness and offset tariff impacts through specialized equipment acquisition.
The project is to implement advanced manufacturing equipment and programming software capabilities, leading to sales growth.
As we have grown, data and organization have become massively important. These projects support this. Daily Shift Report - This custom software will facilitate time entry into our ERP and data analysis. It will help us find out things like how our shifts are performing relative to historical performance, our top reason codes for downtime, and our most productive employees and supervisors. Velocity Scheduling - We are making an electronic version of the scheduling system we did last year. It has controls and metrics to increase our jobs' "velocity", or how fast they move through our shop.
FBT is implementing a machine monitoring system and processes to measure more meaningful production targets. This is an extension of our Kaizen lean manufacturing project from 2016.
The purpose of this CanExport SMEs agreement is to support small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for activities related to export market development that are part of an export business case for a specific target market, particularly where activities are targeting departmental priority markets and sectors.
All grants from Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Source: Government of Canada proactive disclosure of grants and contributions (open.canada.ca, dataset 432527ab-7aac-45b5-81d6-7597107a7013), 1,327,352 rows as published, collapsed to one agreement per agreement number (per reference number where none is given) at its latest amendment, which carries the full agreement value. Years are the agreement start year. Agreements with individuals are counted but not named.