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Blair Haas is CEO at Bud Industries. With over 50 years of experience in the electronics and enclosure industries, Blair has helped lead and been active in multiple industry associations, including EIA, ECIA, and EDIC. Jack Schron is president and CEO of Jergens Inc and has led the tooling component manufacturer for over 30 years. He also founded an educational technology nonprofit called Tooling University, now Tooling U-SME. Blair and Jack recently spoke with Laura Putre, senior editor of IndustryWeek, about how political and economic uncertainty has affected their businesses, and the strategies they’re adopting to survive.

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"Brain drain is a huge, huge problem for the industry. The veterans, the people that have 30 years or more experience inside of the manufacturing facilities, are retiring out. The big silver tsunami, as we've heard before. What's happening, and what really was the challenge during COVID, is that they never had the time to take the tribal knowledge that typically is within all of those veterans that have now retired out and then pass that along over to a new workforce." - Anthony Offredi, Quickbase

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