CMTC Manufacturing Blog

Business planning has been used, reworked and contorted in numerous ways to suit the needs of individual organizations. When writing a paper, you are instructed to formulate an ...

Michael Porter is the founder of the value chain concept, which was developed in 1985 through competitive advantage. Its primary focus is to allow an organization’s resources to ...

Lean manufacturing can be traced back to Taiichi Ohno’s production system at Toyota, and has been gaining traction ever since. The practice of lean manufacturing is well known for ...

Organizations that succeed in optimizing supply chain efficiency have one thing in common, they secure executive champions. Executive champions are executive sponsors that ...

Cost, performance, quality and value are all encased under the supply chain umbrella.

Unless you've been spending the last few years under a rock, you're probably aware that Lean Manufacturing has played a major role in the manufacturing industry, such how Toyota ...

This post is the sixth and final installment in our series about Smart Manufacturing (SM). Our goal for the series was to inform manufacturers of SM’s components, how it affects ...

Technology has progressively improved over the past few decades. According to businessdictionary.com, manufacturing technology can be defined as: "The field of study focused on ...

Lean manufacturing is a type of manufacturing that uses a play-by-play methodology for eliminating waste which occurs naturally in the manufacturing process. While a typical ...

This post is the fifth installment of six regarding the concept of Smart Manufacturing (SM). This series aims to inform manufacturers of SM’s components, how it affects business ...

When people think of California we may be influenced by pop culture and advertisements that portray California as an entertainment hub. This is mainly due to the highly publicized ...