How to Upskill Workers When You Cannot be Face-to-Face

We all know how much has changed, and the future is still unknown. What we do know is that virtual learning, once an experimental option for high tech offices, has become a new reality.

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Common Themes from Employee Engagement Pulse Surveys to Guide Leaders as Employees Return to Work

As companies transition back to normalcy, it is important for leaders to gain insight from employees to make sure the workplace and company culture return to a place of stability as quickly as possible.

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Leaders: It is Time to Walk the Line –  Listening and Responding to your Customers and Employees

Seemingly, it is OK to explain away poor service and quality “because of COVID”. Understandably, our companies are challenged to perform. As leaders, we have likely taken our eye off the basics while dealing with the onslaught of uncertainty.

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Lean Innovation: What Manufacturers Can Learn From the Tech Sector’s Appropriation of Lean Thinking

The basic idea is this: People who innovate have fantastic ideas, but it’s lean thinking that can turn them into realities.

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10 Points of Concern During a Recession

While it’s impossible to pinpoint the timing of an economic pullback or recession, it is possible to take steps to help protect your business during such an event, as well as create ongoing resilience and prepare for the upswing!

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How to Implement Standard Work in a COVID-19 Environment

In the world of Lean Manufacturing, this definition and adherence to Standard Work has resulted in positive, repeatable results in a variety of industries.

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HVAC Best Practices Post COVID-19

The ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers) formed a task force to provide guidelines on how a building’s HVAC systems can help slow the spread.

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Cover Smart. Do Your Part. Slow the Spread

If you could do one thing to prevent someone from contracting COVID-19, would you? If you could do one thing to help put the economy back on the path to recovery, would you? 

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Restarting Your Facility

It is important to remember that while employees are returning to work, facilities’ support equipment itself also needs to be brought back to work in a safe and thoughtful manner.

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Strengthening your Quality System Post COVID-19

One area that can easily get overlooked as we move through this uncertain time is your Quality Management Systems (QMS).

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COVID-19 Prevention Guidelines in 14 Languages

Our friends at Argo Translation created an infographic that demonstrates the CDC general guidelines to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in 14 languages.

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The Value Adding Associate

Companies where the culture does not fully respect the human potential, especially of those at the frontline are not ready for any meaningful, sustained journey to excellence. 

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Is it Really Still Business as Usual?

Although we are still not out of the woods yet, now may be a good time to think about revising your strategic plan to account for the recent disruption.

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7 Manufacturing Digitization Challenges — and How to Overcome Them

AI-powered robots, 3D printing, IoT…there’s a whole world of advanced manufacturing technology and innovation just waiting for small and medium-sized manufacturers (SMMs) who want to step up their digital game.

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The New Supply Chain: Spring Training 

Part 6 of The New Supply Chain Blog Series. We are starting to see some signs of the economy opening up and supply chains getting some “swings in the cage” before the full season begins

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