Tag: manufacturing

Reshaping Pricing

Maximizing Efficiency: How Technology is Reshaping Pricing in Manufacturing

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Pricing in manufacturing has undergone significant transformation over the years, adapting to changes in market dynamics and consumer behavior. In the past, pricing strategies were largely cost-driven, based on the expenses incurred during production. However, manufacturers began recognizing the importance of more nuanced pricing approaches as the competitive landscape intensified. One historical anecdote illustrates this Read More …

Keep Jobs at Home

The Real Story on How to Keep Jobs at Home

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The Dynamic, Collaborative Management Model That Saved a U.S. Manufacturing City SECOND SHIFT: The Inside Story of the Keep GM Movement (McGraw-Hill; August 2016; HC, $30.00;) details the complexities of an automotive industry rapidly transforming due to external economic and market forces; a community reliant upon a local manufacturing facility scheduled to be added to Read More …

What Sales and Marketing can learn from Demand Driven Manufacturing

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“Demand-Driven manufacturing is a manufacturing requires a fundamental shift form the centrality of inventory to the centrality of demand. To be successful, company must be able to sense and adapt to market changes.” – This is from the Orlicky’s Material Requirements Planning 3/E.written by my recent podcast guest Carol Ptak and Chad Smith of the Read More …

Manufacturing to Healthcare, the Tale of a Lean Six Sigma Consultant

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Jason Kilgore is much more than just your typical Lean Six Sigma consultant. I ran across Jason on the web answering a LinkedIn question about internal and external consultants. He spoke highly of each, gave practical common sense answers on when to use them and sold nothing! He caught my attention and I went surfing. Read More …

U.S. manufacturing – Competing in a Value Driven World

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This is a Guest blog Post by Dr. Eric Reidenbach, the Director of the Six Sigma Marketing Institute. I think Dr. Reidenbach’s thoughts are right on target. We keep basing Continuous Improvement efforts in areas that are making little difference to the bottom line. Most manufacturers constraints are in the marketplace and till we address Read More …

Sustaining Lean in Manufacturing

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Lonnie Wilson, the owner and principal of Quality Consultants is an expert in Lean Manufacturing techniques and applications. He not only instructs management professionals in the applications of these lean techniques; he is an on-the-floor-implementation professional. His new book, How To Implement Lean Manufacturing, was released by McGraw Hill, August 2009. Listen to answers like Read More …