“May you live in interesting times.” We certainly do. Supply chain shortages like we’ve never seen, an international pandemic that continues to mutate, and strong …
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Overcoming Your Labor Shortage
Organizational Structure is A Choice
Organizational structure is a strategic choice and should not simply default to “what we’ve always done.” Companies are often organized by skill set or primary …
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Cheap Labor is NOT the Goal!
It wasn’t difficult to see this coming. This podcast from 2013 explained how chasing cheap labor was very short sighted and doomed to fail. The …
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Is Additive Disruptive?
I want to discuss with you disruptive technologies and specifically additive manufacturing. I have been a volunteer with the association for manufacturing excellence for about …
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Managing the Delta Effects
Fear can paralyze; risk can be managed. The Delta variant of Covid-19 is spreading primarily among the unvaccinated. We are currently facing supply and demand …
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PreOrder Benefits: Manufacturing Mastery
My book Manufacturing Mastery: The Path to Building Successful and Enduring Manufacturing Businesses will be available September 1, 2021. For pre-orders, I am offering benefits …
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Allocation of Insufficient Supply
With labor, plastics, chips, cans and many other global shortages, demand is far greater than supply for many manufacturers. The question is: How best do …
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Strategic Supply Chain Visibility
It’s one thing to focus on eliminating problems between shipment and delivery, the typical point of supply chain visibility. It’s quite another to discover there …
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Supply Chain Visibility
It’s not shipping on time that matters; it is receiving on time. That is true for you, and for your customers. That means manufacturers can …
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IIoT Programming is Easy
Industrial Internet of Things is the digitization of important variables, with that data converted into information that creates faster and better decision making. Business leaders …
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