As part of the MEP network, the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute is requesting your insight on the state of education/workforce development (EWD) as it pertains to the national...
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Creating a Culture of Innovation: Start in Your Sales & Marketing Departments
In the first of this three-part blog series, we introduced the notion of starting with your sales and marketing departments as places where you can innovate new aligned, value-based best practices...
Creating a Culture of Innovation
Innovation - the key to American success, prosperity, and global influence. Those of us in the manufacturing sector have heard for years that our country’s economic growth and prosperity is in part...
2018 Trends in Advanced Manufacturing
In the past couple of years, discussion on the future of manufacturing has birthed the concepts of Industry 4.0 and SMART Manufacturing. What do these concepts mean and how do they affect any...
Top Employment Law Updates for Manufacturers
The end of 2017 brought ups and downs with respect to employment law changes for Oregon manufacturers. On the federal side, the change in administrations brought modifications to federal agencies,...
Measuring KPIs with Visual Aids
We as managers often believe that our teams understand our company values, strategic direction, and key measurement of those initiatives merely through association. We may even tell our employees...
Oregon Applied Sustainability Experience Host Companies
The Oregon Applied Sustainability Experience (OASE) wants you to host a 10-week, free intern to conduct Pollution Prevention research at your business Your business may be able to address waste...
4 Sales / Marketing Myths that Trap Manufacturing Companies
Sales and marketing are two of the most important functions in any manufacturing business. Whether you have 4 employees or 400, having a good system in place to let new customers find your product,...
5 Key Advantages of Modular Manufacturing
As part of my process intensification work for Manufacturing USA's RAPID Institute, I came across “Small Modular Infrastructure” by Dahlgren et al. (The Engineering Economist) that highlights the...
Manufacturers Wanted: New Market Opportunity
RAPID is seeking manufacturers capable of creating stacked and bonded Inconel 625 plates that are .25mm thick with .006mm tolerance. The RAPID Institute’s (1 of 14 federally funded Manufacturing USA...
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