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  |   |   |  |  |  |  Planning for downturns is as important as planning for anything else in the business  |  
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  |  |  Giving mental health the same attention as physical safety boosts employee morale and talent retention.  |  
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  |  |  Manufacturing leaders have better things to do than correlate data to find patterns that guide improvement. Let automation do the work.  |  
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  |   |   | From the IndustryWeek Archives  |  |   |  
  |   |  |  |  |  From the IW archives: With lean, understanding what you did is one thing, but understanding why is the important takeaway.  |  
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  |  |  From the IW archives: Your organization is a sub-system of a larger system, and it must align its systems to the external world. Sometimes that external environment demands rapid change that may be uncomfortable for everyone.  |  
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