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 Not because the work isn’t valuable, but because the perception of that work is outdated.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...
Manufacturing is experiencing a paradox: despite a tight labor market, many open positions remain unfilled. Companies struggle to find the right talent, yet many qualified workers are overlooked due to outdated...
For too long, manufacturing jobs have been sold as stable but stagnant—clock in, clock out, retire if you last. But that ceiling? It’s more cultural than structural. And in today’s labor market, it’s costing co...
In manufacturing, where efficiency and precision drive success, employee turnover is more than a minor inconvenience—it’s a costly, disruptive force. While much attention is given to recruitment, the hidden cos...