Raymond Floyd, Senior VP of Suncor Energy and 2011 Inductee to the IndustryWeek Manufacturing Hall of Fame, presents the theory, practice and examples of creating and leading large autonomous teams of fully engaged people working together toward a shared vision of success for the enterprise that employs them....More
Even though business executives from around the world may be disgruntled with their jobs, most are planning to sit tight in their positions at least for now. Accenture recently conducted an online survey of 3,900 business executives from medium to large ......More
Survey respondents share the positives and negatives about the future of U.S. manufacturing, their jobs, their salaries, the skilled-worker shortage and more....More
U.S. manufacturers like Alcoa, Greatbatch and GE have introduced 'centers of excellence' to improve competitiveness at home and around the globe....More
“Employee engagement” has emerged in the past decade as a viable strategy for dealing with the unavoidable change and upheaval companies face. Gallup Organization’s “Q12” survey has become the foundation for seemingly any firm looking to find out the ......More
Understand that the importance of these efforts in engaging employees isn't simply a "morale raising exercise" or a ploy to appear to be a warm and fuzzy leader....More
'When you embark on lean, you're not just trying to engage the hands of your employees. You want their hands, their hearts and their minds,' Mike Fitzgerald, director of lean and reliability services for Advanced Technology Services Inc. asserts....More
Eric Kulikowski, Director of North American Operations for Philips Respironics presents the employee engagement programs launched and the results achieved at their two western Pennsylvania manufacturing sites over the most recent three years. A people-centric culture has been established and is built on the three pillars of Pride & Passion, Sense of Family and Pursuit of Excellence....More
Dialogue introducing new forecasting study on what the economy might look like in 2025 with a manufacturing resurgence. Video from the Aspen Institute....More
Manufacturing makes America strong. It makes families and communities strong. It provides national security. It gives us energy security. And for the 12 million men and women who work in manufacturing, it gives us pride....More
Christopher Barnatt of ExplainingComputers.com demonstrates how Big Data is transforming the business and industrial worlds and enabling new technologies and new breakthroughs that will help manufacturers work more efficiently than ever before....More
Beyond an initial novelty, 3D Printing could have a game-changing impact on consumer culture, copyright and patent law, and even the very concept of scarcity on which our economy is based....More
Christopher Barnatt of ExplainingTheFuture.com illustrates the inner workings of additive manufacturing machines and provides some real-life examples of how 3-D printing technology could dramatically change the manufacturing and retail industries as we know them today....More
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab break down the engineering and design challenges they faced during the Curiosity rover's complicated landing near the Martian equator on Aug. 5, 2012....More
