When doctors need to deliver precise doses of medicine on a strict schedule, they often administer it intravenously. Intravenous drug delivery methods need to carefully control the flow of medicine into a patient. Knowing the medicine’s flow rate—or the volume of fluid flowing into the patient each second or minute—is crucial to delivering the right amount of medicine at the right time.

Trust is the foundation of business and commerce. Every transaction, partnership, and working relationship depends, to some degree, on confidence that others will deliver on their commitments.

In business, we often focus on customer trust that products and services will meet their needs and expectations. But that’s only part of the picture. Employees need confidence in…

Manufacturing has a people problem, but not in the way we usually talk about it.

We talk about the skilled-labor shortage. We talk about retirements. We talk about doing more with fewer people. Usually those are treated as separate problems.

They aren’t. Rather, they are compounding.

Deloitte and The Manufacturing…