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    Recruiting / Retention

    How Are You Finding and Keeping Workers?

    April 19, 2024
    Share your innovative approach with your manufacturing peers in our one-question poll. We'll choose the most insightful answers for a future article.

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    April 15, 2024
    Experts from EBM share insights into the tragedy in Baltimore.
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    Public Policy

    R&D Incentive Changes Are Hurting Manufacturers

    April 18, 2024
    Congress is taking its time on reversing delayed tax deductions for innovation.
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    Energy

    Local Leadership Guides Worldwide Plant Sustainability at ABB

    April 18, 2024
    Centrally-guided sustainability initiatives generate less excitement, deliver results more slowly than employee-led efforts.
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    Continuous Improvement

    Fix Your Just-in-Time Engine

    April 17, 2024
    Our JIT efforts failed because we didn’t know how our MRP system really worked to provide production and inventories based on the batch world.
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    Public Policy

    Clean Manufacturing Could Strengthen DoD's Industrial Strategy

    April 16, 2024
    A smarter sustainability policy would emphasize resilient supply chains, modular architecture and limiting dependence on foreign adversaries.
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    Labor / Employment Policy

    Explainer: How Do Workplaces Join Unions?

    April 16, 2024
    What to know to understand the UAW's campaign, an uptick in union activity and a recent change in the union-election process.
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    Continuous Improvement

    5 Steps for Sustaining a Lean Culture

    April 15, 2024
    Operational efficiency is a lifestyle, not a journey with a destination or finish line.

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    Compensation Strategies

    Are Your Posted Salary Ranges Too Broad? It Could Cost You Talent

    April 4, 2024
    Some companies are playing fast and loose with pay transparency, to their own detriment.

    Supply Chain

    Watching the Wheels (and Other Parts) Put into Motion: What’s Behind the Rise in Real-Time Location Systems

    April 5, 2024
    Auto manufacturers are among the many supply chain leaders who want to diligently track and trace parts, finished goods and even packaging as fulfillment – and financial – burdens...

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    Regulations

    Production Pulse: 2024 Election's Impact on Manufacturing

    March 21, 2024
    Manufacturing experts in the machine tool, food and pharmaceutical industries discuss how Washington is addressing the manufacturing world and what's at stake in the Biden-Trump...
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    Talent

    Five Years, Five Sectors: US Cities with Notable Manufacturing Job Gains Since 2019

    March 15, 2024
    From the COVID-19 pandemic to the CHIPS Act, there have been several drivers of manufacturing job growth in recent years.
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    Talent

    Production Pulse: Women in Engineering and Manufacturing

    March 7, 2024
    Engineers from Subaru and Endress+Hauser discussed how to bring more girls into STEM and offer career opportunities for women in manufacturing.