 McMinnville Economic Development Partnership and McMinnville Works co-sponsored a half day learning experience for local college students (Interns) on Wednesday July 27th at the Evergreen Aerospace...
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Low Cost Employee Development for Manufacturers
Employee Development Doesn’t Have to be Costly The ability to get the best out of your employees, and unlock their greater potential is sometimes just a matter of opportunity. While many factors can...
How Manufacturers Can Build Profitable Networks on LinkedIn
Last quarter I discussed the value of LinkedIn as a marketing tool for manufacturing companies. This tool is regularly underutilized by manufacturers. Today I’d like to take a deeper dive into...
Jack is Back! An Overview of Total Product Maintenance (TPM)
Jack repairs machines as they break Do you remember Jack from my post on maintenance magic? When we last left Jack, he was trying to repair machines in a firefighting pattern of...
Northwest Food and Beverage Industry Survey
Food Processors: State of the industry Are you a food processor that is struggling to find the right employees to join your company? Has ‘FSMA’ become a 4-letter word in your quality department? If...
How To Build Team-Driven Structured On the Job Training
Last month I talked about the importance of developing your employees. Yet it can be difficult to develop training that sticks for many reasons. In part because training calls upon manufacturers to...
Host a Manufacturing Day Event
Oregon Manufacturing Day is October 7th! What started as a simple salute to manufacturers four years ago has become one of the most influential international events of the year. Across the nation...
Manage Your Products for Profits
New technologies and new competitors are changing markets faster than ever before. Whether your company is in a B2B or B2C environment, it is critical that you have a product strategy, high level...
The Future of Supply Chains 2016
On Thursday May 5th, I attend the Critical Materials Conference in Hillsboro, and while focused narrowly on materials and supply chains semiconductor manufacturing, I found that many topics were...
Are You Capturing The Power of LinkedIn?
According to a report from the Content Marketing Institute, 89% of manufacturers nationwide who have a marketing staff person are using LinkedIn as part of their marketing strategy, yet only 54% say...
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