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Scott Ginsberg
Manufacturers face a critical challenge: capturing, standardizing, and scaling workforce knowledge. Skilled workers are retiring, and labor shortages are persisting. Outdated, paper-based documentation can no longer keep up. These methods create bottlenecks that slow productivity and make vital…
Felipe Monteiro
Global risks are rising, and many companies are struggling to adapt. The World Economic Forum’s 2025 Global Risks Report makes it clear that challenges like escalating global tensions and conflicts, climate change, economic instability, and supply chain disruptions are interconnected and build on…
Gleb Tsipursky
One transformative strategy that can revolutionize how organizations embrace generative AI is peer mentoring. By leveraging the power of personal connections and shared expertise, peer mentoring accelerates learning, fosters collaboration, and fuels innovation. When mastering gen AI tools can mean…
Seb Murray
What happens when workplace colleagues land on opposing sides of an external competition? Henning Piezunka, an associate professor of management at Wharton, tackles this question in a recent study, using sports data to shed light on how outside rivalries can shape collaboration within the workplace…
Torsten Schimanski
Workforce development is an essential yet frequently overlooked aspect of supply chain management in manufacturing. Similar to how disruptions in material sourcing or logistics can halt operations, talent shortages and skill gaps create bottlenecks that jeopardize efficiency, quality, and growth. …
Donald J. Wheeler
Outliers are values that don’t “fit in” with the rest of the data. These extreme values are commonly considered a nuisance when we seek to summarize the data with our descriptive statistics. This article will show how to turn these nuisances into useful information.
The earliest statistical tests…
Oliver Franz
Maybe you’re pulling reports from three different platforms, trying to reconcile numbers that don’t quite match. Maybe you’re manually copying and pasting from multiple spreadsheets, hoping you didn’t introduce any errors along the way. Or maybe you’re waiting on IT to clean up, prep data, and…
Matt McFarlane
The medical device industry is growing. Data from KPMG predict that global annual sales will rise by 5% per year to reach just under $800 billion by 2030. New technology, new opportunities, and, as always, the promise of improving patient outcomes around the world are major drivers of growth within…
Kate Zabriskie
It starts innocently enough. You want to ensure everything runs smoothly, so you check in often. You spot a typo in a presentation, so you fix it yourself.
Someone misses a minor detail and you think, “I’ll just handle it next time.” Before long, you’re reviewing every email, sitting in on every…
Mark Hembree
Some people don’t feel like they’re working unless their hair’s on fire. Somehow, they think it’s admirable to be feverish at a frenzied pace, breathless and full of urgency, turning tasks in record time and pushing the team to accelerate. Surely others will take notice and marvel at such hard work…
Angelina Rivera
Manufacturing is a fast-paced, constantly evolving, and dynamic environment, and the supply chain is at its heart. For small and medium-sized manufacturers (SMMs), navigating the complexities of the supply chain often feels like a high-stakes balancing act. From juggling fluctuating material costs…
Mike Figliuolo
A leader’s daily decision checklist is daunting: From hiring or firing to major business changes, every judgment call carries with it some level of risk. A bad choice could result in a toxic hire or a new product launch that crashes and burns. Perhaps more frightening is this: One poor decision…
Maria DiBari
This current job market is plagued by fake job postings that have been misleading American job seekers, wasting their time and distorting employment data. These deceptive listings—often created to collect résumés, inflate company growth metrics, or manipulate job market statistics—erode trust in…
Christine Schaefer
With the right approach, artificial intelligence isn’t “just a tool.” It can be “a real-time decision-making partner”—one that “empowers the workforce, making knowledge more accessible while ensuring that organizations have faster and smarter operations.” So says Ron Norris, retired director of…
Gleb Tsipursky
In the current professional landscape, idea generation is revered as a hallmark of creativity and innovation. Organizations celebrate those who can generate new and groundbreaking concepts, often overlooking the subtler art of idea curation.
However, the rapid advancement of generative AI is…
Mike Figliuolo
Things are awesome at work until that dreadful day your boss (with whom you have an awesome relationship) tells you, “Hey, I’ve hired a new person who will be reporting to me, and you’ll now report to that person.” Just like that, you’ve officially been layered. And we all know getting layered is…
Etienne Nichols
Have you ever wondered what your medtech company looks like from the point of view of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration investigator? Well, this is your chance to find out.
Greenlight Guru invited Vincent Cafiso, a former FDA investigator, to the Global Medical Device Podcast to share his…
Stephanie Ojeda
Quality risk management (QRM) has become a crucial tool for ensuring regulatory compliance worldwide. It plays a central role in ISO management system standards and regulations, as well as the EU Medical Device Regulation (MDR/IVDR), FDA 21 CFR 820, and ICH Q10 in the pharmaceutical and biotech…
Quality Digest
Augie, Augmentir’s industrial generative AI assistant, is designed to enhance manufacturing operations. Unlike standard AI-powered helpers, Augie relies on real-time operational data, workforce insights, and training records to deliver solutions that integrate smoothly into daily workflows. It…
Mike Figliuolo
We all have enemies. Some of us have many. But when we spend our time and energy focused on attacking them and counterattacking their inevitable strikes, we’re the ones losing.
In getting us to attack, our enemy has taken us away from productive pursuits. They’ve hung a dark cloud over our days.…
Creaform
Quality control (QC) teams need reliable results they can trust to make informed decisions and address manufacturing challenges. This is why they rely on the coordinate measuring machines (CMMs). However, a CMM’s speed is often a limitation, making the idea that routine quality control can be…
Gleb Tsipursky
The transformative potential of generative AI in learning and development (L&D) is a topic of growing interest among business leaders. And if you think your workers aren’t using gen AI, you might be seriously off-base.
According to a global study of 14,000 workers by Salesforce in late 2023,…
Nathan Ginty
In recent years, reshoring—the process of bringing manufacturing back to the U.S.—has gained momentum. Companies are reevaluating their offshore supply chains, driven by rising costs, geopolitical risks, and supply chain disruptions. For smaller manufacturers, this shift also presents a unique…
Roy VanGemert Jr.
What if you could meet your new employees a few years before their start date? Imagine a future where skilled workers are readily available in your local market, eager to contribute and connected to your company’s mission.
By investing in a sustainable local talent pipeline, manufacturers improve…
Hannah Fischer-Lauder
In an age where data are among the most valuable assets for any business, the ability to retrieve, process, and utilize information efficiently is critical for success. Yet traditional data-retrieval methods often struggle with the demands of today’s dynamic business environments. Enter retrieval-…
