According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, there are more than 23 million small businesses in America, employing about half of the nation’s private workforce. As the government agency...
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Silver Sponsor: Vigilant
Representative Name: Bryon Bailey Representative Title: Regional Sales Manager Sponsorship Level: Silver What is your favorite part about your job at Vigilant? Connecting business leaders with our...
A Supply Chain Lesson from the Coolest Cooler
Roger Jensen, OMEP's supply chain expert, shares his thoughts on the coolest cooler. If you’d like help to identify, assess, quantify and mitigate your supply chain risks, contact us. What happened...
Key Bank, OMEP Platinum Sponsor
This post is part of OMEP's Interview with our Sponsors Series. We love our sponsors, and we know you will too! Representative Name: Beau Conway Representative Title: Sr. Vice President, Equipment...
Oregon Agriculture Adds Taste and Color to the Holidays
From Christmas trees to candy canes, Oregon agriculture plays a big holiday role This story was originally published in the Oregon Department of Agriculture website. We've listed it here for your...
Made In Oregon Gift Guide
OMEP is back with our annual gift guide. Look no further for unique, quality products made in your own backyard. We could have listed thousands more Oregon companies in this blog, but we’ve narrowed...
PQR Analysis
Identifying a common measurement A major concern for most job shops has been to identify a common unit of measure that everyone can understand and that allows the application of “Takt Time” (a...
Oregon Manufacturing Award Winners
Celebration is in the air! We had the pleasure of kicking off the holiday season at the Portland Business Journal’s Oregon Manufacturing Awards. 2015's awards were held on Thursday, October 30th;...
Sponsor Highlight: AKT
We are featuring our sponsors in a series of posts. You can learn more about each exciting organization below. We are thankful for our partnership with AKT Advisors and their strong understanding of...
21 Hundred Gigawatts of Innovation!
Don your 80s puffer vest, pull out your moon boots and fire up your DeLorean, folks. Today, October 21, 2015 is the date Marty and Doc (of the Back To The Future trilogy) travel to in their DeLorean...