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Highlights

Beyond The Cutting Zone

Trends Drive Robust Year for Manufacturing Technology

Dec. 29, 2011
AMT catalogs 2011 strengths, warns of risks for 2012
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Ready to Move On? Consider Selling to Employees

Dec. 22, 2011
Employee Stock Ownership Plans offer advantages for company owners, workers, and managers.
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6 Reasons to Embrace Alternative Financing

Oct. 18, 2011
Manufacturers need to shorten DSO and increase cash flow, without the constraints of traditional financing.
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Will Anything Convince Gen Y to Pursue Manufacturing Careers?

Sept. 15, 2011
One twenty-something offers insights from the younger side of the recruitment dilemma
Beyond The Cutting Zone

Make Innovation Sourcing a Business Strategy

Aug. 18, 2011
Senior level executives need to encourage innovation, and they need to support and engage suppliers to provide innovative solutions
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We Can Make a Difference, and We Are!

Feb. 15, 2010
Individuals working together can initiate changes that help the cause of precision manufacturing.
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The Beginning of a Manufacturing Policy

Feb. 15, 2010
If there is a robust effort to promote the policies described in the Obama framework, the result could bear fruit and help to offset some of the new costs.
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Climate-change politics

Jan. 19, 2010
The Copenhagen global warming summit would seem like just another meaningless United Nationssponsored international forum if its consequences were not so deadly serious to the...
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Forward, thinking

Jan. 19, 2010
Robert Brooks Editor-in-Chief [email protected] This year started out with a surprise for me: a procurement exec with an important OEM called out of the blue to seek my...