Workforce Development
Changing Your Approach To Change-Over
When you make your living cutting parts, maximizing the time spent making chips is a good thing. Tooling a machine up and down and up again is dead time spent away from making your living. This Ohio shop has figured out how to dramatically cut its dead time. They have created cultural change that most shops can and should implement.
Read MorePM News: Marking Tool Manufacturer Takes Training To The Customer
Columbia Marking Tools (Harrison Township, Michigan) has designed and built a complete training and demonstration facility in a 32-foot long by 8 1/2-foot high trailer. The trailer is self contained with the necessary electrical and air supplies required to operate the range of the manufacturer’s peen marking machines.
Read MoreShareholder Agreements In Succession Planning
Shareholder agreements, also known as buy-sell agreements, are contracts drawn by legal counsel that establish a procedure for buying out an ownership interest in a closely held business, triggered by a specific event.
Read MoreKeeping Jobs By Keeping Up
As time goes by, in many manufacturing enterprises, the experience side of the ledger totes up while the education side receives few, if any, entries. Without both, the value of the worker to the company and the ability to compete goes down.
Read MoreOnline Training For Shopfloor Personnel
The real problem is, most of us don’t have the experience, resources or acumen to effectively deliver and administrate an effective training program across an enterprise. Have you visited Tooling U lately (www.toolingu.com)? Tooling U (short for Tooling University) was founded a few short years ago and since that time has grown gradually, methodically and quite effectively into several disciplines and topics of training relevant in today’s manufacturing environment.
Read MoreBusiness Succession: Keeping Ownership In The Family
You’ve worked hard to build a successful business, and you have a great emotional stake in its future. That is why, as you begin to think about retiring, you may want to make sure the business stays in the hands of someone who has the same emotional attachment—in other words, someone in your family. But even if you don’t plan on retiring soon, now may be a good time to start thinking about your succession plan.
Read MoreLeave A True Legacy Through Succession Planning
You have been successful. Careful succession planning should precede the transfer or sale of a family business. Whether you strategize carefully or not at all, the tax effects of your decisions will determine how much or how little your heirs will ultimately receive.
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Training For Now And The Future
Online learning tools are quickly becoming a standard for many shops looking to maintain a high level of continuing education while keeping expenses at a minimum.
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Protecting Capital Equipment
"The Atam," as this shop refers to the device, is designed to perform machine diagnostics and real-time, in-process tool action monitoring. The process analyzer from Atam Systems (New Albany, Ohio) is a relatively simple tool.
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Taking Its Turn
This family-owned job shop is more interested in what its capital investments can do than how much they cost. Keeping its demanding automotive customers happy means paying attention to the details and applying the right technology to the job.
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