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Seeking Host Company for PDCA Workshop
The Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) will be hosting a workshop titled PDCA:Â The Core of Sustained Improvement Efforts. The session will be led by our very own Sheila Cuyler! The purpose of this hands-on workshop is to develop participants Lean thinking...
NW Industrial Energy Efficiency Summit
This year’s NW Industrial Energy Efficiency Summit agenda includes the latest best practices and technical resources for industrial facilities in the Pacific Northwest. In its tenth year, the Summit will provide attendees with information on the latest technology...
Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Survey
As part of the MEP network, the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute is requesting your insight on the state of education/workforce development (EWD) as it pertains to the national manufacturing ecosystem and robotics/automation. We developed a brief...
Creating a Culture of Innovation: Start in Your Sales & Marketing Departments
In the first of this three-part blog series, we introduced the notion of starting with your sales and marketing departments as places where you can innovate new aligned, value-based best practices and processes. In this blog we’ll look at WHY these practices/processes...
Creating a Culture of Innovation
Innovation - the key to American success, prosperity, and global influence. Those of us in the manufacturing sector have heard for years that our country’s economic growth and prosperity is in part due to innovative products produced by manufacturers using innovative...
2018 Trends in Advanced Manufacturing
In the past couple of years, discussion on the future of manufacturing has birthed the concepts of Industry 4.0 and SMART Manufacturing. What do these concepts mean and how do they affect any changes to your business? Industry 4.0 and SMART Manufacturing are...
Top Employment Law Updates for Manufacturers
The end of 2017 brought ups and downs with respect to employment law changes for Oregon manufacturers. On the federal side, the change in administrations brought modifications to federal agencies, such as the National Labor Relations Board, the Equal Employment...
Measuring KPIs with Visual Aids
We as managers often believe that our teams understand our company values, strategic direction, and key measurement of those initiatives merely through association. We may even tell our employees about our strategic direction and goals during our onboarding process,...
Oregon Applied Sustainability Experience Host Companies
The Oregon Applied Sustainability Experience (OASE) wants you to host a 10-week, free intern to conduct Pollution Prevention research at your business Your business may be able to address waste reduction and energy efficiency projects sooner and faster with the help...
4 Sales / Marketing Myths that Trap Manufacturing Companies
Sales and marketing are two of the most important functions in any manufacturing business. Whether you have 4 employees or 400, having a good system in place to let new customers find your product, and an intelligent sales mechanism to help those customers make the...