Ten years ago, Washington Manufacturing Services started assisting Washington’s manufacturers, but the Manufacturing Extension Partnership has been active in other states since 1988. Before joining WMS in 2000, Rhea Wallace, Senior Project Manager for Aerospace and Electronics, was a client of the Texas MEP. He has a unique perspective of the MEP as a client, board member and for the past seven years, Project Manager.

Small- and medium-sized manufacturing companies in the United States are not doing a very good job of taking advantage of fast-growing overseas markets, according to RSM McGladrey. Companies that have a well-defined global strategy, which includes both sourcing products from overseas and selling there as well, are experiencing revenue growth in their foreign operations. Companies that haven’t adopted such a strategy aren’t doing as well.

A northwest Lean resource for healthcare improvement is seeking to establish tours and hands-on learning opportunities at local Lean operations as part of an educational benchmarking series to develop Lean leaders in healthcare.

You can’t ignore workers’ comp, even if you may want to. As an employer, you have control and responsibilities of the processes – from hiring the right people to prevention, from integrated claims management to getting an injured employee back to work.