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Engaged Employees Drive Productivity
on November 28, 2016 | posted by Tamara Wamsley
within Continuous Improvement, General, MPI
Engaged Employees Drive Productivity
Manufacturers are only as good as their least engaged employees.
Why?
Equipment problems are ignored by unskilled workers who don’t have the training to fix them.
Defective products are shipped by disaffected associates who have no incentive to catch errors.
Dissatisfied […]
How to Fill Your Skill Gaps Now
on October 28, 2016 | posted by Tamara Wamsley
within General, Workforce Development
Fill Your Company Skill Gaps
Are you struggling to fill open positions in your company? According to data from the 2014 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, women make up about 47 percent of the total labor force, but only 27 percent […]
How To Make More Money Now
on August 29, 2016 | posted by Tamara Wamsley
within Continuous Improvement, General, MPI
It’s easy to get preoccupied in manufacturing these days with so many technologies emerging at the same time — the Internet of Things, cloud computing, additive manufacturing, robotics, etc. Can these new technologies transform your company? Maybe— but only if […]
FASTLANE: What Would You Say You Do Here?
on October 31, 2015 | posted by Mary Miller
within General
Written by: Mary R. Miller
If you have ever seen the movie Office Space you probably remember the line “What would you say you do here?”
At FASTLANE we get this question a lot and it comes in many shapes and […]