If you supply to the electronics industry or manufacture electronic products, new legislation will dramatically impact your manufacturing processes, revenues and costs.

Years ago I heard a presentation from someone at Toyota explaining where to begin in implementing the Toyota Production System. “Start by analyzing the work to be done.” This meant listing all the actions required to create the value in a given product and then dividing these actions into three categories:

This is the second article in the Cash is King series. This article deals with some unique sources of business financing – the SBA 7A and SBA 504 loan programs, and some recent changes that greatly benefit manufacturers.

Manufacturers need to make sure their products aren’t being counterfeited illegally by Chinese producers, but that might be difficult because counterfeits can be hard to detect even by companies that made the original product.