Growth
What is Manufacturing Excellence?
Manufacturing Excellence is the continuous improvement of your operations to reduce waste, increase production profitability, and gain a winning edge with quality and safety innovation. Manufacturing Excellence is referred to as many different vocabulary terms including TQM, Lean Manufacturing, World Class Manufacturing and more. One common misconception about Manufacturing Excellence is that its focus is…
Read MoreInformation is the Seed of Growth.
People attend college to gain information or knowledge; people also read books, listen to podcasts, and enroll in programs at prestigious universities to gain certificates of accomplishment. All for what? To seed their minds for growth. The real world (manufacturing) application, has a very similar formula: to gain information in order to turn that into…
Read MoreLaunching Digital Innovation Companywide
First, let’s start with a few questions to get warmed up on this “Digital Innovation” term being tossed around. Here we will describe what it’s all about, why companies are leaning toward technology, why is it needed, and how to take it companywide. What is Digital Innovation? Digital Innovation is a term used in various…
Read MoreIneffective Corrective Actions:
For companies that are able to find the problems within their operations through outside consulting, audits, and internal evaluations, they are only halfway to a solution. After finding problems and concerns within the business itself, now you have to do something about it; and in most cases, things never get done that result in Ineffective…
Read MorePaper-Based Systems
Paper-based systems have been effective years in many types of businesses. Paper is used to track numbers, files for audits, and many more business-critical processes. Paper has been at the cornerstone of all business for the last 100 years. However, many companies are going digital. What does this mean for business in the information age?…
Read MoreThree Steps to Reduce Employee Turnover
Is There Anything You Can Do To Reduce Employee Turnover? When you ask someone about their ideal job the answer you sometimes find is that it’s usually not the current profession they are in. Why? Employees Quit For More Pay The answer relates to more money, better benefits, advancement in job position and more vacation…
Read MoreShift The Manufacturing Mindset
How to shift the manufacturing mindset “We aren’t ready…” Where Do I Go? Making decisions has become a fairly easy process in the manufacturing industry, but making the “right” decisions for manufacturers has become increasingly difficult. We’ve seen the rise and fall of many great manufacturers based on certain leaps of faith they have made,…
Read MoreFour Ways To Start Data Collection
Have a central Team Even if your company has an automated system for data collection, someone still has to manage the data and make sure that it is organized correctly. Data teams are becoming significantly more important because manufacturing companies are realizing the work needed to execute the collection and management processes. Whether your team…
Read MoreGaining Sustainable Growth
Sustainable Growth Gaining Sustainable Growth is a business’s way of funding its growth without leveraging finances or debt. (SGR=Retention Ratio X Return on Equity) Searching for a way to optimize the growth of your business is not easy to find but assessing all the different factors that interfere with your growth will allow you to…
Read MoreData Quality
Data quality is the process that ensures validity and should be the standard for the company. Basically, this means that the quality of data is only defined like this by the company’s context of quality. If the data process is fluid and consistent with the correct inputs, then the outputs of your data analysis system…
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