7 Metrics to Help Your Management Team Make Better Decisions

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

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Employee Initiative Is Most Likely Your Company's Biggest Asset

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 ...

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Brand Equity: How to Add Lasting Value to Your Company

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, ...

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Shift Your Business from Providing Reactive to Proactive Customer Service

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 ...

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Why You Should Worry About Your Employees Work-Life Balance

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 ...

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6 Productivity Tips for Today’s Manufacturing CEO

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 ...

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9 Effective Cost Saving Tips for Manufacturing Companies

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 ...

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Manufacturers – Do You Know Where Your Money Is?

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 ...

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The Challenges of Implementing ERP & Change Management

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 ...

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Managing Projects: A 3 Tier Approach to Achieve Better Results

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 ...

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Moving to a New Facility? Here's A Checklist of Items to Consider

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 ...

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