I remember my first breakdown like it was yesterday. It was a Sunday when I responded to a breakdown of the cold mill's left-tilt...

Need an escalation policy being a first time manager? Try this list that includes some of the basics for someone in manufacturing.

Learning through experience is exponentially more valuable with a mentor, as long as you want to be the mentee.

During onboarding activities of new employees, I remind each new hirer that they have a superpower. It is a superpower that the current...

A quote I remember a mentor of mine said years ago was, if you find yourself bored, just wait 5 more minutes, something will blow up. Of...

Like many people, I would have to imagine that most of us get sick of the same stagnant training approach that has been in place for what...

A statistic I came across the other day indicates that 6.3 billion prescriptions were dispensed in the United States in 2020. Combine...

Regardless of the type of manufacturing that we are in, it is safe to assume that we have plenty of standard operating procedures (SOPs)....

Regardless of whether you have production units that are reliable or unreliable, I would like to propose a different type of performance...

Are you interested in starting to measure effectiveness with Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) on a production unit? To start, I...

I have measured and trained Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) for decades, routinely using different concepts to construct its...