Top performance requires more than hiring good people. It requires a leadership team that believes in helping their employees to be successful in performing their job. Performance feedback and...
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The Road to A Competitive Manufacturing Workforce
Last Thursday over 100 manufacturers from SW Washington and Portland Metro area gathered to discuss the importance of strengthening our manufacturing workforce. Flanked by workforce partners in...
Different people, different perspectives on lean
Originally published in THE FABRICATOR® MAY 2015 By: Charlie Hopewell, Dave Davidson, Gary Conner Employees and managers experience a lean transformation in vastly different ways. Understanding...
Curt’s Cat: Lean Epiphanies Book Excerpt
Gary Conner, one of our Senior Consultants has recently published a book titled "Lean Epiphanies: Catapult the Cow and Other Inspirational Continuous Improvement Stories". You can read more and...
Driving Profits through a Highly Engaged Workforce
This month's guest blog post features Rose Marshall of Innovation Frameworks LLC. She is an OMEP partner and presented most recently at the Oregon Manufacturers' Summit on Employee Engegement....
5 Lessons I learned at the Oregon Manufacturers’ Summit
Oregon’s manufacturing community deserves the best that OMEP has to offer. As our events and marketing manager I poured every ounce of focus and ability into crafting a summit event that...
Building Thriving Companies In Rural Oregon
As a business accelerator, we help manufacturers across the state become more profitable and increase efficiencies. Our intentionally located offices in rural areas of Oregon underline OMEP’s belief...
Manufacturing Week Wrap Up
This was my first year participating in manufacturing day, and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the national spirit of creativity, and appreciation for makers in America. AMERICAN MADE MOVIE OMEP’s...
Opening Doors to Abundance – Manufacturing Opportunities for the Next Generation
Introducing new people to manufacturing When Jesse Aaronson isn't whitewater kayaking he's responsible for overseeing the On-the-Job Training (OJT) program at Work Systems Inc. As a national and...