ODOD

TechSolve is proud to be one of Ohio’s seven Edison Technology Centers. Through these centers, the Ohio Department of Development (ODOD) helps Ohio manufacturers achieve their growth potential in the global marketplace.

TechSolve has extensive experience in the aerospace and automotive industries, both of which have been targeted by the ODOD as drivers of Ohio’s economy over the next decade. Our expertise enables these industries to harness the power of high-impact process improvement and technology to stimulate existing products and create new products.

Strategically located throughout the state, our fellow Edison Technology Centers include technology users and providers who have joined together to define and address the needs of manufacturing and technology-based businesses across Ohio.

1. BioOhio (Columbus)
   BioOhio (founded as Edison BioTechnology Center and formerly Omeris) builds and accelerates bioscience industry, research, and education in Ohio to drive economic growth and quality of life throughout the state.
2. EISC, Inc. / CIFT (Toledo)
   EISC, Inc. is the catalyst for technology-based economic development in northwest Ohio. Activities include deployment of best manufacturing practices, Lean manufacturing and quality systems, environmental systems, eBusiness strategy, product and process development, and comprehensive machining and manufacturing technology training. Through its Center for Innovative Food Technology (CIFT), EISC provides technical solutions and applied research for Ohio’s food processing companies.
3. Edison Materials Technology Center (Dayton)
   EMTEC provides technical coordination, business assistance, and commercialization support to Ohio’s industry, universities, and government labs to strengthen Ohio’s industrial competitiveness in advanced energy, automotive, metals and castings, nanomaterials, polymers, composites, biomaterials, and other advanced materials markets.
4. Edison Welding Institute (Columbus):
   World-renowned EWI meets the materials joining and engineering needs of manufacturers by providing current technology related to all types of welding processes: arc, laser, solid state, resistance, brazing, and micro-joining. EWI also provides engineering assistance focused on mechanical performance, design, fatigue, fracture, fitness for service, numerical and finite element analysis.
5. MAGNET (Cleveland)
   Through expert, hands-on, technical, business and training services, MAGNET helps manufacturers in Northeast Ohio become more competitive through eBusiness, lean manufacturing/manufacturing engineering, product design and development, quality/Six Sigma, workforce and organizational development, automation, and advanced technology and intellectual property management.
6. Ohio’s IT Alliance (Columbus)
   Ohio’s IT Alliance is a statewide network of six regional organizations with one common goal: growing and improving the competitiveness of Ohio’s information technology (IT) industry. These six groups  located in Athens, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, and Toledo  serve as a rallying point for their region’s IT activities and create the structure for defining and developing programming necessary to retain and grow the industry across the state.
7. Polymer Ohio (Columbus)
   Polymer Ohio, Inc. works to enhance the growth and global competitiveness of Ohio’s plastics, rubber, and advanced materials industries through the identification and fulfillment of its needs and by facilitating the awareness, utilization, and development of existing and future resources.