Gretchen Philyaw Joins The South Carolina Manufacturing Team She’s a CEO, a founder, and writer. She’s a proponent of American industry, a skilled hand, and entrepreneur, and she’s about to show the world the excitement of manufacturing and technology in the USA with her new series. Whether she’s touring a robotics facility in the South […]
Greenville, SC – KTM Solutions is pleased to announce that Edward (Ed) Levert has agreed to join KTM’s engineering team as a structural analyst. Mr. Levert is a graduate of Clemson University (2008) and received his BSME degree from the University of New Orleans (2020). “Ed joined…
SENECA, SC, August 30, 2021 – BASF in Seneca, SC recently donated school supplies to Blue Ridge Elementary School and Grace’s Closet. Items donated include 450 pencils, 275 notebooks, 225 packs of crayons, 100 glue sticks, 100 erasers, 65 pairs of child safety scissors, pencil pouches and…
Join FocalPoint Coaches Jerry Pilewski, John Roney, and Mike Ungar for their next Business Advantage free webinar on September 28 from 12pm to 1pm for: Life Cycle of a Business Businesses and products follow a predictable cycle. It’s current will dominate regardless of market, technology, talent, or…
Too much time on the wrong things, fighting fires. Your team making the wrong decisions. Hiring and training new employees, only to have them quit. Your people are tired and it’s only a matter of time before your reputation suffers. Wednesday, September 29th @ 11:00am EDT We…
It seems improbable that something as rigid as a tree could be turned into a pliable foam that can pad the soles of shoes and cushion seats in cars, but Clemson University researchers have done exactly that. A research team in the Department of Automotive Engineering used…
I was humbled to have an opportunity to speak to the faculty of the Greenville Technical College Center for Manufacturing Innovation on the occasion of the 2021-2022 academic kick-off. Approximately 50 faculty members were in attendance to discuss plans for integrating the program under the new dean…
Within the OpExChange, our companies are all at some point of a continuous improvement journey – striving to improve both their bottom-line and top-line results by reducing waste and increasing value for their customers. Many are now incorporating industry 4.0 technology as a strategic part of this journey….
As manufacturing companies across South Carolina are racing back into normalcy, they are finding that things are not quite the same as prior to the pandemic. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show that the number of job openings has reached a series high point (the term…
One of the common attributes’ employees list for an ideal job is a stress-free work environment. Even if there was such a thing as a stress-free job, the reality is we would still carry our stress from home and other sources. To make matters worse, a study…