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Operations leaders know what a great economy can mean for their business – expansion opportunities, bringing in more orders, engaging new projects, and building a lasting model for unexpected variations in future economic climates...

The latest article from the Dallas Morning News highlights how the labor shortage is slowing the Texas economy. This article...describes how the lack of "skilled” labor in the workforce is preventing...

The issue facing those in charge of operational value creation is how to access the information necessary, from the available set of tools, to drive positive change in the organization....

In warehouse operations, the pickline is key to having efficient and reliable order picking productivity. Without a pickline, picking orders becomes a big consumer of labor hours and profitability....

Even though automation has come a long way, its deployment on the shop floor must be executed within the framework of the entire production process. As The Goal (1) highlighted in 1984...

In a recent conversation with an Operations Director, he was describing how his breakroom has grown quiet over the past few years. The change in...

If your production facility or shop floor is struggling to maintain consistent results or reach productivity targets, then it’s time to step back and consider...

We live in a world where technology is all around us. Chances are, most of us are using advanced technology in our daily lives (i.e. smartphones, wearables, smart TVs, IoT, etc...

The US manufacturing sector is facing a significant challenge to fill 500,000 jobs and handle the constant workforce turnover that local competition for labor generates...

The government is on its 33rd day (and counting) of being shut down. This is the longest shutdown in America’s history, surpassing the 21-day shutdown of 1995...