The Inside Track
For many shops, the best source of new business is existing customers. Is the best source of new talent your existing employees?
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Military Readiness
A small nonprofit is demonstrating just how ready veterans are to transition into skilled manufacturing careers. The organization is helping vets and manufacturers at the same time. How far could this training model go?
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The Automation Incentive
One of the stranger consequences of the health care law might be its effect
on technology investment.
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Run for the School Board
Manufacturing leaders can do a lot of good within this elected office—for their communities, for young people and for their own businesses.
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On Knowledge
Advancing knowledge within manufacturing is key to advancing manufacturing.
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Beyond 500,000
Is there still a direct connection between manufacturing and “manufacturing jobs”? Whatever the answer, manufacturing is still a job creator.
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Labor Is Local
That’s one issue. Two others are “stretch” and cyclicality. Together they explain why manufacturing wages haven’t caught up with the demand for labor. What happens when they do?
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There’s a Place Like This for You, Too
We created a video to give school-age kids an authentic look at the world of a manufacturing engineer. Here is what I hope my kids will see.
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Bullish on U.S. Machining
An investment fund seeks returns by buying shops and equipping them to succeed.
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The Cost of Doing Business
Developing skilled employees internally is expensive, but not doing so might be more expensive still.
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Watch and Learn
These videos share ideas that might be relevant to the challenges your shop is facing.
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Leave the Average Productivity Behind
Official measures of U.S. manufacturing productivity are overstated. Productivity at the extremes is the real story.
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No Lie, Love Will Win
The pitches on behalf of manufacturing careers are often short-sighted.
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Important Versus Urgent
Don’t let the search for manufacturing staff today distract you from the potential for developing employees tomorrow.
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