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A Practical Guide to PQR Analysis
What Is PQR? PQR stands for Product, Quantity and Routing. PQR analysis is a way of answering the questions: What do you make? How many do you make? What processes are required to make it? In...
Skills Shortage? What Skills Shortage?
The Skills Shortage Solution to Date: Panic! There has been much publicity and alarm surrounding the impending shortage of skills in manufacturing. Evidence of the skills shortage has been raised...
Start or Grow Your Manufacturing Exports
Helping Oregon's manufacturers to become exporters Did you know that exports of Oregon’s food & beverage products exceeded $687 million in sales? In fact, over 70% of the world’s disposable...
Rain or Shine: Forecasting the Future for Manufacturing Businesses
Forecasting the Future for Manufacturing Businesses Plans are nothing; planning is everything. - Dwight D. Eisenhower According to the Washington Post in 2015, weather forecasters “correctly...
How the Process of Change Can Bring Manufacturers Growth
Results matter Just ask any olympic athlete about the importance of results .025 seconds can mean the difference between a bronze medal or none at all. What do you do as a business when you're not...
8 Ideas Manufacturers Should Consider Before Replacing Equipment
Small Manufacturer Machine Maintenance Challenges As a small- to medium-sized manufacturer, you might not have an engineering staff. Maintenance reliability for a key piece of equipment can...
Considering Human Factors Requirements in ISO 9001 & AS9100
Note: This is a guest blog post by Marcia Buser and Tristan Buser-Molatore In our last blog post, we reported on changes coming to the aerospace quality management standards that we learned about at...
5 Ways Manufacturers Can Increase Employee Engagement
Leading people can be challenging, and following a leader can feel frustrating as well. We’re all just trying to do our best at work, whether we’re owners, managers, or employees. Everyone has...
What’s new with AS9100?
Highlights from the 2016 RMC Aerospace Auditors Conference Every year the Registration Management Committee of the American Aerospace Quality Group holds a workshop to update aerospace auditors of...
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