CMTC Manufacturing Blog

In the last two decades, California has become synonymous with the technology boom. Silicon Valley offers the latest and greatest in electronics, providing headquarters for tech ...

“People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.” – Dr. Allan Fromme In Part 1, Reflections on the Manufacturing Extension Partnership ...

Part 1 – The Opportunity That Lies Beyond the U.S. Borders Your company produces a good product for local or national distributorship. Your profits are acceptable (but never as ...

National Manufacturing Day was established in 2012 to expand the knowledge about and improve the public’s view of manufacturing careers and the industry’s value to the U.S. ...

When considering automation, the first thing that many people will imagine is a robot. As a result, many of us who work in the design of automated systems find that we receive a ...

Remember how much fun it was opening your own lemonade stand? You would go to the supermarket with your parents to buy the ingredients, rush home to the kitchen with your siblings ...

Is cybersecurity something you need to worry about as a small manufacturer? In 2011 50 percent of small businesses thought they were too small to be a hacker target, while the ...

In Part 1 on our series about millennials and manufacturing, we talked about the characteristics of a millennial and how manufacturers might appeal to them to fill manufacturing ...

Millennials. If you Google the term, you get 3,190,000 results! There has been a lot of discussion and analysis about this group, which includes people born roughly between the ...

All good things must come to an end. It is our 7th and final blog entry of our social media for manufacturers blog series! If you would like to read the full series, you can ...

Holy Moly! I can’t believe we are nearing the end of our social media for manufacturers blog series! Our earlier blog entries talked about the “classic” platforms people often ...