MRE is founded by Jimmy Hyatt and his father, Darryl Torrey about 28 years ago. Maple Ridge Engineering (MRE) is a medium-sized firm offering engineering consulting in a number of areas, specializing in the biomedical field. Last year, its revenue exceeded $287 million. It employs about 335 people, their personnel department roughly classifying these as 150 “administrative” employees (e.g., management, clerical staff), about 75 professional employees (e.g., engineers, physicians, analysts), and 110 trades employees (e.g., draftspersons, technicians). MRE maintains four offices. Our home office is in Maple Ridge, Tennessee, with branch offices in Atlanta, Charlotte, and New Orleans. MRE is primarily in a service industry. MRE offers consulting services. They don’t produce materials goods, but they do create plans for things like new buildings and computer information systems. They use project teams predominantly to offer consultation to clients. Because MRE offers services and does not engage in manufacturing, they don’t rely heavily on manufacturing control or inventory control systems. Instead, this suggests that they need information systems to facilitate project management and help top management monitor progress and trends in client needs and opportunities for new consulting services.
The lists of services that MRE offers are architecture, educational engineering, biomedical engineering, training and software. MRE’s Webster design architecture is one of the best and award winning services offer mainly for design of hospitals, hospital wings, clinics, and other medical facilities as well as office buildings, office space and other structures. Secondly, educational engineering division is specializing in the design and implementation of state-of-the-art classrooms and training facilities. Thirdly, biomedical engineering division is specializing in the design and implementation of specialized medical instrumentation and sophisticated medical