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Leadership Skills
How to lead from the factory floor
To drive continuous improvement: be visible, communicate your vision, and always keep listening.
Lean Six Sigma
Correct workload imbalances in your maintenance program to leverage Lean principles
Alex Ferrari
To fully leverage Lean, traditional concepts like mura need to be interpreted to fit the maintenance context.
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The secret to Lean transformation success
The Tool Belt
In this episode of The Tool Belt, Kathy Miller and Shannon Karels discuss their journey as women leaders in manufacturing.
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Are reliability woes keeping you up at night?
The Tool Belt
In this episode of The Tool Belt, Peter Christian shares his thoughts on the many shades of maintenance in the post-COVID age.
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How kaizen can guide your post-COVID cleaning protocols
Jill Henry
Optimize your cleaning efficiency to enhance preventive maintenance and keep employees engaged.
Inventory Management
Inventory solutions: A well-organized tools and parts area is key to a productive work environment
Jim Laprade
Organizing tools and parts via a Lean 6S system can help tidy your work space and add to the bottom line.
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What are the operational impacts of social distancing on the Lean shop floor?
Jane Liu
Return to your Lean techniques to critically examine your processes for physical touchpoints.
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The Lighter Side of Manufacturing
3D printers are helping surgeons create custom cranial implants
Industry News
DOE announces initiative to increase manufacturing of rooftop heat pumps
Alexis Gajewski
Industry News
Micron Technology receives $6.1 billion from CHIPS and Science Act to establish new fabs in New York and Idaho
Alexis Gajewski
Workforce Development
Is technology the key manufacturers need to attract Millennial and Gen Z workers?
Thomas Wilk
Industry News
Horsburgh & Scott invests $4.9 million to open gearbox manufacturing and repair facility in Louisiana
Alexis Gajewski
Industry News
Modular home manufacturer fined $272K by OSHA for 27 health and safety violations
Alexis Gajewski
Industrial Training
Training lessons learned from the United States Army
Craig Cotter
Take a precision-based, standards-focused approach to skills development.
Industrial Training
How your plant can train like the military
Craig Cotter
Take a precision-based, standards-focused approach to skills development.
Leadership Skills
How to diagnose your plant's organizational problems
Tom Moriarty
Looking to identify your top opportunities for improvement? Tom Moriarty says take a strategic approach.
Lean Six Sigma
Self-service continuous improvement
Edwin van Dijk
Tap into advanced analytics to fuel improvement efforts across the organization.
IIoT
Lean for digital manufacturing: The human factors critical to IoT success
Bob Argyle
Lean principles can help your people deploy the right IoT technology at the right time.
Changing Workforce
Expand your workforce for free!
Doc Palmer
Doc Palmer says you can finish 50% more work orders per month with your existing staff.
Lean Six Sigma
4 building blocks for lean manufacturing
Bob Argyle
Give people the data they need to support them in making the changes you want.
Lean Six Sigma
Don’t leave home without them: Why assessments are key to reliability success
Catherine Marshall
If you want your continuous improvement journey to be a success, the best place to start is with assessing where you are right now.
Lean Six Sigma
Fighting fakes: The scary truth about counterfeiting in manufacturing
Sheila Kennedy
The specter of counterfeiting’s safety and business threats is growing. Here’s how some companies are fighting back.
Lean Six Sigma
Get your stuff together, Part 2: Achieve storeroom excellence
John Ross
In the conclusion of this two-part series, master efficiency in your storeroom.
Industry News
U.S. Steel partners with CarbonFree to capture carbon emissions from one of North America’s largest steel mills
Alexis Gajewski
Industry News
AFL invests $50 million to expand fiber optic cable manufacturing in South Carolina
Alexis Gajewski
Industry News
EV battery manufacturer fined $77K after workers suffer respiratory damage in lithium battery fire
Alexis Gajewski
Industry News
Samsung to receive $6.4 billion from the CHIPS and Science Act to establish semiconductor ecosystem in Texas
Alexis Gajewski
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Compressed Air Systems
Beyond the compressor room: The business of compressed air
Thomas Wilk
The Lighter Side of Manufacturing
Manufacturing in space, the final frontier
Alexis Gajewski
Industry News
Report: 83% of manufacturers plan to use generative AI in their operations this year
Alexis Gajewski
Industry News
Eastman to use $375 million grant from DOE to build second molecular recycling facility in Texas
Alexis Gajewski
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