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Manufacturing has a negative reputation, but it doesn’t have to

A recent report from PMMI Business Intelligence found that most consumer-packaged goods (CPG) professionals are still faced with...

Tablets on the manufacturing floor getting a bad rap?

Okay, we can all agree that we live in a smartphone age. Very few of us can live without our smart device right next to us. We use it as...

Dysfunctional leadership and its adverse impact on manufacturing

I was looking back through a paper I wrote for one of my master’s classes in communication and leadership specifically on dysfunctional...

Automation can actually make our jobs better, not get rid of them

In the industrial automation workplace, one of the biggest fears is that the automation being adapted will be used to drive out jobs and...