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Operational Resilience Explained
America was built on manufacturing.And manufacturing was built on resilience.
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Driving Fear Off The Factory Floor
Did you know there are five fears that all human beings share? Below is the official list, according to the widely cited psychological research outlined in Karl Albrecht’s...
Continue ReadingWhat Manufacturing Leaders Need to Know About Workforce Empowerment
Empowered workers require enlightened leaders. Organizations can either act as an incentive (or an obstruction!) to the expression of a frontline worker's sense of ownership.
Continue ReadingFrontline Of The Future, Part 4
According to recent numbers from the Bureau of Labor, there are 12,559,000 manufacturing employees in the country. That’s eight percent of our nation’s employment.
Continue ReadingManufacturing Doesn’t Have A Hiring Problem, It Has A Retention Problem
Consider two pieces of recent industry data: 75% of the workforce will be millennials by 2025. (Forbes) Thousands of experienced workers are retiring daily. The Silver Tsunami
Continue ReadingHow to Deliver People Centric Manufacturing Training
“The supervisor is the customer of the training.” When Vitalii Potapenko of Solar Plastics first shared these words with us, we knew their company was doing something special...
Continue ReadingA New Model For Manufacturing Hiring
Constraint, Currency & Clarity What invention had the most profound impact on manufacturing hiring?
Continue ReadingHow To Accelerate Frontline Learning With TWI
Frontline supervisors are not educated as teachers or coaches. The good news is, they can learn that skill. Most training programs focus on training operators, and we have...
Continue Reading5 Ways to Fix the Skills Gap on the Factory Floor
Properly addressing the skills gap takes time. But before you start forming an internal task force or scheduling strategy meetings, consider what impact you can have on the...
Continue ReadingBest Practices On How To Retain Factory Workers
Manufacturing companies rely on workers to be the frontline of production. And while companies across all sectors struggle to recover from a labor crisis perpetuated in part...
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