by Rob Tracy | Mar 20, 2021 | Leadership, Miscellaneous
The headlines are full of leadership wisdom from our modern industry titans: Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Jobs (even though he passed away nearly 10 years ago). Do you want to be like them? What I can say for certain is that I don’t aspire to be Elon Musk, Steve...
by Gayle Noakes | Mar 20, 2021 | Operations, People
The Supervisor’s job has grown over the years. It used to be mostly about meeting the production schedule and making sure all the machines are running. Now they also need to work on scheduling issues, attend multiple meetings, support Lean and Continuous Improvement...
by Paul Neblock | Mar 20, 2021 | Operations, Strategy
One reason that automation has yet to be widely embraced by many small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) is project failure or the perceived risk of automating. If an investment fails to produce results, who can blame owners and executives for shying away from...
by Mike Braun | Mar 20, 2021 | Sales & Marketing
If you had a manufacturing issue on your line, would you keep running it the same way? Chances are you would halt everything and fix the issue, right? So why aren’t you running your sales department the same way? Measuring Is Key When it comes to your manufacturing...
by Rob Tracy | Mar 20, 2021 | Operations
The Problem Sales and operations have crossed swords since the dawn of manufacturing. Lately, however, I’ve noticed a consistent theme: With unexpectedly strong sales, the manufacturing group has fallen behind, which has led to long lead times and missed deliveries....
