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When meeting someone for the first time, I am invariably asked what I do for a living. I proudly respond that I work for Alice Manufacturing Company, a family owned textile company, in Easley. I used that reply with an out-of-state couple at a wedding reception a few years ago. A bit later at the […]
With a favorable business climate, state-sponsored apprentice and employee training programs and growing industry clusters of aerospace, information technology, life sciences, automotive and logistics, South Carolina continues to attract industrial investment and manufacturing expansion from U.S. and foreign enterprises. As these organizations grow and mature, they often seek technology solution upgrades and business improvement projects. […]
Lean methodologies emerged in manufacturing and have now been applied to many business processes including innovation management (1). It is the latest “best practice” in manufacturing for process improvement alongside Six Sigma and Theory of Constraints (TOC). But if you are relying solely on the lean methodologies to provide a silver bullet for long term […]
Selecting the best person to lead a department, function, or company can be very challenging, particularly in a complex manufacturing environment where the game is always changing. Search firms are an excellent resource for identifying new talent but resumes and recruitment interviews provide only surface information about candidates. Psychological assessment plays a critical role in […]
Being a bunch of what some would consider “Quality Dorks”, we’ve been abuzz since the Spring of 2013 with anticipation of the changes to the most widely adopted international management system standard in the world – ISO 9001. If you’ve done business in manufacturing over the past 28 years, you’ve probably had some sort of […]
A Greenville company has just unveiled the first commercially produced computer featuring a handcrafted wooden case made from domestically sourced trees. The Volta V, which is part of Computer Direct Outlet’s Volta line, was designed with the future in mind. Gary Underwood, the company’s owner, said the idea behind the Volta V came from the […]
Selecting the best person to lead a department, function, or company can be very challenging, particularly in a complex manufacturing environment where the game is always changing. Search firms are an excellent resource for identifying new talent but resumes and recruitment interviews provide only surface information about candidates. Psychological assessment plays a critical role in […]
Contributed by Mark Degraffenreid, Greenville Technical College The U.S. is the world’s largest manufacturing economy and in South Carolina, manufacturing helps to drive the economy, with $28.90 billion in manufactured goods exported in 2014. Manufacturing in Greenville County is an economic powerhouse, first in gross regional product, first in total payroll for all industries, and third […]
Ask senior executives at manufacturing firms what their biggest challenge is managing new product innovation and you might hear answers such as lack of creative thinking, development teams need to work harder, or maybe that the organization does not have the right skill sets. The truth might surprise you: consistently year-in and year-out, the single […]
Charleston is internationally-recognized for breath-taking architecture, exceptional cuisine, an awareness of history and an amazing quality of life. Over the past few decades, Charleston has built a vibrant innovation ecosystem: Charleston’s digital economy is the fourth in GDP growth in the Nation (ranking with Austin, Raleigh and San Francisco), Charleston is one of the […]
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