Training comes in many shapes and sizes: classroom training, on-the-job training, e-learning, one-on-one sessions. The question is: Which is best for you?
The average base salary breached $100,000 in the 2013 IndustryWeek Salary Survey, and pay raises were the norm, not the exception. This slideshow accompanies "Salaries Remain Upward Bound," IW's March 2013 article on manufacturing management salaries.
It is all about forward momentum when it comes to salaries and pay raises for manufacturing management, according to the 2013 IndustryWeek Salary Survey. Or perhaps the better description is "upward momentum."...More
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Mistake-proofing Required: Wish I could get inside this plant and find out how such an error happened: 6K gallons of scotch accidentally flushed down drain....More
By completely and thoroughly resolving the core issue, we can accomplish two things: stop wasting resources dealing with problems from the same core issue and create sustainable improvement in the organization....More
With India and China pouring money into R&D while simultaneously “adopting mercantilist trade policies that are only enhancing our loss of intellectual property and technical know-how, the US is in serious jeopardy of permanently losing the race for innovation advantage.”...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
