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The Inside Dirt On Clean In Place
July 17, 2012 8:14 am | by David McCarthy, President & Chief Executive Officer, TriCore Inc. | CommentsLet’s face it: Time cleaning your process equipment is time spent not making your product.
Being There
July 13, 2012 8:16 am | by Bruce Hamilton, Founder, OldLeanDude.org | CommentsI’m an enthusiastic user of information automation, but it’s not so interwoven into my life that I would think that “going to the floor” could imply such third-order observation as staring at a computer screen.
How Cheap Is This Breakfast?
July 12, 2012 3:21 pm | by Anna Wells, Editor, IMPO | CommentsEven when pointing to the characteristics (or price) of your product, never assume that these “benefits” are a no brainer.
Conflict Is Inevitable With Persistent Resistance To Change
July 11, 2012 8:40 am | by Timothy F. Bednarz, Ph.D., Author & Publisher, Majorium Business Press | CommentsResistance is experienced in most teams as they struggle with the concept of change.
Finding 'The New New Thing'
July 10, 2012 8:58 am | by Mike Schmidt. Associate Editor, Manufacturing Business Technology | Comments“The New New Thing” is out there waiting to be developed, deployed, and utilized. And Microsoft isn’t waiting to stumble upon it.
When Reliability Is Considered A Maintenance Activity
July 10, 2012 8:08 am | by Mark Latino, President of Operations, Reliability Center Inc. | CommentsProduction in general doesn’t know the value of using reliability tools, such as root cause analysis, as a business tool to gain consistent high productivity.
The Holy Grail of Innovation
July 6, 2012 8:37 am | by Mike Rainone, Co-Founder, PCDworks | CommentsWe all know that innovation is messy, unpredictable, full of unknowns, and risky.
Next-Gen ERP
July 3, 2012 9:15 am | by Dylan Persaud, Managing Director, Eval-Source | CommentsNext-gen ERP products allow organizations to quickly create new processes, reconfigure and tweak existing processes, as well as add additional functionality that they may already have but need to configure.
Working Stiffs At Age 15
July 2, 2012 8:33 am | by Chris Fox, Associate Editor, PD&D | CommentsThere has been an emergence of a new type of education, or rather a new format; the concept of Technical Education High Schools.
Wisdom Wanted!
June 29, 2012 8:04 am | by Alan Nicol, Executive Member, AlanNicolSolutions | CommentsBusinesses are beginning to hire experts and mid-level leadership again, but they are cautious in their selections. It is a challenge to dig beyond what a person knows to decipher what a person can do.
A Man & His Glue Gun
June 27, 2012 8:39 am | by David Mantey, Editor, PD&D | CommentsEveryone has a million dollar idea, but only a select few have the gusto to see the project through, to success or failure.
Head Directly To Jail, Do Not Collect $2M
June 26, 2012 8:28 am | by Rachel Leisemann Immel, Associate Editor, IMPO | CommentsQuite a bit more damaging than a few lost plastic houses, fraud in manufacturing companies seems to be becoming more and more common.
Manufacturing As A Career
June 25, 2012 8:44 am | by Mike Collins, Author, Saving American Manufacturing | CommentsYoung people need to know that a career in manufacturing has great future potential.
Trash Your Employee Handbook
June 22, 2012 8:48 am | by Mike Collins, Author, Saving American Manufacturing | CommentsHandbooks have morphed into a bureaucratic tool to control employee behavior, which eventually takes away the autonomy of the supervisor and the worker.
Leading Inefficiency Indicators
June 22, 2012 8:46 am | by Bruce Hamilton, Founder, OldLeanDude.org | CommentsWhy rush to fix the machine when you’ve got a downstream operator with a ball-peen hammer?
