Health of Manufacturing Industry is Improving Recently the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation (MAPI) released good information about the health of important supply chain sectors such as primary metals,…
Affordable Care Act and its Effect on Employers Small firms face many obstacles to purchasing coverage for their employees in the current health care system. The Affordable Care Act (“ACA”)…
How Telecommuting Can Contribute to Higher Productivity When Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer banned telecommuting for her employees in March, that step initiated extensive comments and heated debates in the InterWebs…
Accurate Data and Real-time Analytics is Critical to Manufacturers For decades, manufacturers have invested in and developed technologies that leverage “just in time” and “Six Sigma” approaches to (a) impose…