I recently came across this blog post from marketing guru Seth Godin, and felt that it was very pertinent to manufacturers who want to make their workplaces great places to work. Read on for an...
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6 Telltale Signs Your Manufacturing Company has a Learning culture
Learn the 6 steps to building a learning culture at your small manufacturing buiness.
New Year Resolution: A Value Proposition to Grow Sales
Can you believe it? It is nearly time for new year resolutions! It is also that time of year for 2017 strategic planning. Is growing your sales part of your 2017 plan? If so, let’s talk about why...
What OSHA’s New Drug Testing Interpretation Means for Manufacturers
If you’re like most manufacturers, your drug and alcohol policy probably allows you to test an employee following an accident or near miss incident. But when OSHA released new anti-retaliation rules...
Announcing NWB2B!
The Challenge As manufacturers, you depend on your suppliers to provide quality materials  at a great price, so you can turn them into products to sell to your customers. Yet, searching for a...
National Manufacturing Day 2016 Wrap Up
Happy Manufacturing Day, Oregon! 2016 marked Oregon's largest manufacturing day yet! We say that every year, but every year this fantastic series of events continues to increase in participation and...
Building Portland’s Maker Ecosystem
Thanks to Courtney Tait of Portland Made for this guest blog post In May of this year, a group of Portlanders passionate about supporting the city’s Maker Movement began meeting to discuss issues...
New Aerospace Supply Chain Quality Management Requirements
Guest blog post by Marcia Buser and Tristan Buser-Molatore In our last blog post, we reported on the new aerospace quality requirements for preventing counterfeit product as presented at the...
ISO 9001:2015 and Risk-based Thinking (RBT)
Nearly one year into the three-year transition period, we’ve been hearing a lot of conversation about the International Standards Organization’s (ISO) 2015 revised version of standard 9001 on...
Preventing Counterfeit Products in the Aerospace Supply Chain
The new revision of AS9100 / 9110 /8120 clause 8.1.4 Counterfeit Part Prevention states “the organization shall plan, implement and control a process appropriate to the product that prevents the use...
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