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Not all markets are good markets for you. Not all customers are good customers for you. And not all orders are good orders for you.How do you recognize the distinctions beforehand? And how do you fire a customer once you’ve already accepted them?A good customer for you is not the

Every one of your employees must clearly see how his actions and decisions impact execution of the business strategy. This is accomplished through a line-of-sight deployment process.It is not enough to describe the strategy at an all-hands meeting, or even add to that the down-one-level strategy. Stopping the formal deployment

No manufacturer can afford to ignore the concept of Digital Transformation. Yes, there continues some small need for manual lathes, but don’t plan your future on that.In the past several editions of this podcast I discussed several business-side categories of digital transformation, from machine health to connected employees to using

We’d love to know of any problems with incoming supplies in time to either fix them, or make them irrelevant to our needs today. But most of us live in the world of surprises and reactions.Think of the airport control tower. They can’t afford to have a plane show up

Prior podcasts have introduced the digital transformation business categories of “machine health” and “connected employees.” In this episode we discuss “smart products.”Some manufacturing products are easy to visualize as electronic sources of volumes of data; others, not so much. Yet a significant portion of the products developed, manufactured, sold and/or

Connected employees is a phrase that can intimate workers and confuse leadership. When clarified, it becomes an integral part of your digital transformation.Connected employees simply means that as employees move around doing their jobs, they have the information they need where they are at that moment. It requires mobile devices

In manufacturing, reliable healthy equipment is a fundamental requirement. Yet so many of us struggle with unplanned downtime due to equipment failures.Digital transformation often has as its first arena in manufacturing machine health.Initial efforts at machine health have revolved around preventive maintenance executed on the schedule recommended by the manufacturer

If you can’t lead change, your company cannot succeed. The rate and types of change that success requires continue to expand.Digital Transformation is a buzzword, but more importantly it is a genuine requirement of any manufacturing business that will succeed over the next several years.Imagine the manufacturer that considered electricity

Why are our supply chains in such a mess? While Covid made it much worse, it merely reflected the weakness in how most companies view their supply chains.There are two primary causes of our current woes, and Covid is not one of them.The first is that leadership failed to comprehend

“Round up the usual suspects” — a line from Casablanca — unfortunately describes the hiring strategy of many manufacturers. Don’t be one of them!If you’re looking for the same people you’ve always hired, and through the same sources you’ve always used, why on earth would you expect better results?How many