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...
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Lean Foundations: An Interview with States Industries
October 7, 2015 by Jasmine Agnor Recently I had the chance to connect with two students who attended OMEP’s four-part Lean Fundamentals course, led by Kristi Smith and Gary Conner. Students Dani and...
Manufacturing Day 2015, Recap
Manufacturing Day 2015 was a great success, not just for Oregon, but nation wide. We're still waiting for the final numbers, but we know that at least 80 companies participated in events across...
Manufacturing Day 2015: The Largest Event Yet
September 28, 2015 by Jasmine Agnor In three days the world will celebrate National Manufacturing Day. October 2, 2015 promises to be the largest manufacturing day ever, by a wide margin! What...
Oregon Manufacturing Day!
October 3, 2014, or the first Friday in October, marks the third annual National Manufacturing Day (MFG Day). Three years ago this holiday was designed to expand knowledge about and improve public...
Do You Have An Exit Strategy?
Dave Looper, OMEP’s Business Transition Planning Specialist, guides manufacturing executives through the transition process. His September Transition Planning Breakfast is sold out, but you can...
The Most Powerful Leadership Tool: Positive Reinforcement
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...
No Mystery; No Maintenance; No Magic- The story of “Jack”
Have you ever observed a company that works hard at improving productivity, identifying and removing waste from their processes, improving flow, only to have minimal improvement? It’s...
Water Usage in food processing
Linda Wechsler, author of this post, is a Food Processing Industry Consultant at Oregon Manufacturing Extension Partnership (OMEP). Linda collaborates with food industry experts, professional...
Perspectives on Operational Excellence
On June 26th a group of manufacturers gathered to engage in a highly interactive discussion on Operational Excellence. OMEP consultants Paola Castaldo and John Valachovic led this fast-faced...
OMEP Recommends
To jumpstart your continuous learning initiatives, we are creating a curated list of our recommended materials. You will find these listed on our blog page, and we will add to this list in every newsletter.
Here are three recommendations to kick this off!
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