Manufacturers pour time and money into recruiting. Job postings, interviews, background checks, training—it adds up fast. But too often, the effort ends when the new hire walks through the door. That’s a mistak...
In manufacturing, it’s easy to fall into the trap of treating hiring like a checklist. Forklift certification? Check. Years of machine operation? Check. Welding experience? Check. On paper, these metrics make s...
Walk into Harris Battery’s Bolivar, Ohio, headquarters today and you’ll feel it: a sense of momentum. There’s an earnest recognition of the past and a bright-eyed excitement for the fast-paced future. It wasn’t...
Walk into a factory and your senses go to work immediately. The scent of machine oil. The hum of CNCs. The crisp order of a 5S-organized line. The clank of metal and low murmur of team chatter. These details do...
You’ve screened the résumé. Scheduled the interview. Slotted in the factory tour. But here’s what most hiring managers forget: by the time your candidate is 15 minutes into the tour, they’ve already made up the...
Walk onto any production floor and you’ll spot them first: the forklift operators weaving through aisles, picking orders, feeding lines, and clearing outbound pallets. Officially, they’re “equipment operators.”...
Manufacturing has a workforce problem. Not because the work isn’t valuable, but because the perception of that work is outdated. Many young workers still imagine manufacturing jobs as monotonous, physical...
In a time of transformation, standing still is the same as falling behind. The manufacturing sector faces pressure on every front: aging talent pipelines, automation-driven job evolution, increasing competition...
Everyone’s talking about Industry 4.0—smart factories, predictive maintenance, machine learning, robotics. The future of manufacturing, we’re told, is already here. But walk into a plant today, and you’ll find ...
Manufacturing didn’t lose workers overnight. It lost them slowly, cycle after cycle—through layoffs, offshoring, and decades of messaging that made other industries look more stable, more flexible, and more for...