The post below was originally on ADXPortland.com. Kelley Roy will be releasing a new book entitled Portland Made: New American Makers of the New Manufacturing Renaissance in Fall of 2015. Read on...
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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...
Reduce Handling Time with Shop Floor Layout Changes
A few months ago OMEP had the opportunity to work with a local fabrication shop that specialized in sheet metal forming and welding. The shop was a “job shop” with random customer orders coming 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...
Jean Back: OMEP Board Member
This post is a part of a series featuring OMEP's board members - shining some light on the dedicated individuals who help OMEP to be successful. Read on for thoughts from Jean Ohman Back, Employment...
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...
2014 Oregon Manufacturing Award Winners
November 6, 2014 by Jasmine Agnor OMEP was honored to attend Portland Business Journal’s Oregon Manufacturing Awards Ceremony on Thursday, October 30. Sitting with clients Miles Fiberglass and...
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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