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Strategic Planning & Execution

Trade Disruption Ahead: 5 Actions to Take Now

Dec. 13, 2024
Waiting for clarity risks leaving your organization unprepared for rapid changes.

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eBook: Reshoring Manufacturing: Progress & Challenges

Aug. 11, 2024
Experts in the water treatment, pharmaceutical, chemicals and manufacturing world look at how reshoring is changing the rules of the market.
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Technology and IIoT

Immersive AR/VR Technologies in Manufacturing: Case Studies, Benefits

Dec. 12, 2024
This primer on the potential of augmented-, virtual- and mixed-reality technologies for manufacturing offers real-world examples of companies using such systems as well as advice...
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Leadership

Tips for Manufacturers to Prepare for President Trump's Trade Policies

Dec. 12, 2024
Assessing risks and planning early will keep companies agile if and when massive changes to international trade policies go into effect.
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Embrace a One-Word Goal to Provide Focus in the New Year

Dec. 11, 2024
A single focus fosters alignment and removes chaos, but also be open to that goal evolving as time passes.
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Strategic Planning & Execution

Is the Worst Disruption Behind Us?

Dec. 10, 2024
You can build in operational resilience, even if you can't predict what's ahead.
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Four Strategic-Planning Scenarios for 2025

Dec. 9, 2024
Policy changes make agility essential for manufacturers' success in the new year.
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Talent

The Controversy Surrounding DEI Programs in Manufacturing and Beyond

Dec. 6, 2024
Are these manufacturers throwing the baby out with the bathwater?

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Boeing Resumes Production at Seattle Plants After Strike

Dec. 10, 2024
A labor strike by the IAM shut down Puget Sound production for almost three months.

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Supply Chain

Reshaping Global Supply Chains: Impacts of Tariff Hikes and Strategies for Resilience

Nov. 21, 2024
A four-step process – what, where, whom, how – can identify supply chain options that allow manufacturers to diversify away from China sourcing.

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Preparing for Trump to Shift the Manufacturing Trade Environment (Production Pulse)

Nov. 14, 2024
A different trade environment awaits post-Trump's re-election. Caution against overreaction and skepticism of vendor claims will be critical.
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Production Pulse: Halloween Candy, the Untold Story

Oct. 31, 2024
How important is candy on Halloween? How are commodity prices impacting the kinds of sugar rotting the teeth of America's children?
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IndustryWeek Best Plants Awards Winners: Lessons in Operational Excellence

Oct. 21, 2024
Representatives of Raymond Corp, Sandvik Coromant, Intertape Polymer Group and Toyota Material Handling discuss how they achieve and maintain operational excellence in manufacturing...