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Productivity metrics allow management to understand precisely what’s happening throughout a manufacturing operation. What areas need improvement and who should be rewarded for ...

In business, it’s often said that your biggest asset is your people. But how do employees factor into manufacturing? In the manufacturing arena, your employees may very well be ...

A brand is more than just a product, logo, website, or tagline. A brand is all of these taken together to create an intangible effect amongst stakeholders (customers, prospects, ...

For many manufacturing businesses, the default approach in providing customer service is to respond to problems as they arise. While this reactive method may satisfy the customer ...

In good economic times and in bad economic times, your employees are your most valuable resource. You always want to receive 100% from your workers, but it is also important to ...

When you’re the CEO in the manufacturing industry, you’re constantly short on time and have a completely full to-do list. If you’re working on a start-up or pioneering in a new ...

As manufacturers, you’re no doubt always looking for cost saving ideas that can help grow your bottom line so you can grow your business. Rather than making large cuts to one or ...

Recently, I have been the unfortunate witness to an incident where a trusted employee, the Controller, absconded with high six figure amounts of money. This individual arranged ...

It is conventional wisdom that ERP is among the most high-risk projects for businesses with respect to broken budgets and schedules. It has been said that ERP implementations are ...

Every year brings about new and more efficient processes that manufacturers can take advantage of in order to increase and enhance their upcoming projects. For example, a project ...

For manufacturers, changing facility locations can be a long, expensive, and frustrating process. When moving your production facility from one location to another, you naturally ...