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March, 2010
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Facebook in the factory
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Some manufactures look to connect via social media
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By: MaryBeth Matzek
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SOCIAL MEDIA APPEARS TO BE everywhere as people tweet about their day, update their Facebook status and get back in touch with old friends. But does social media have a place in manufacturing?
Chuck Rathmann of IFS of North America thinks it does, but not in the way many social media fans may recognize. A manufacturer of enterprise software for medium- and large-sized companies, IFS has embedded tools in its software that allows the easy sharing of ideas and information.
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December, 2009
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Outside the brown box
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Menasha Packaging is rebranding (and repackaging) itself
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By: Nikki Kallio
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Image is everything. That’s why Menasha Packaging Co. in Neenah decided it was time for a new look. Though the company does make brown boxes, it has another side: one that produces high-end graphic packaging and merchandising products. So in an aggressive rebranding effort aimed at reflecting the innovative side of its business, the company changed its logo and tagline and reorganized internal departments.
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September, 2009
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1 - 2 punch
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Lean and Six Sigma gang up on waste and inefficiency
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By: Ellen Zettel
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In their quests to be their industries’ best competitors in today’s unmerciful economy, many New North companies have chosen to invest in either of two initiatives allowing them to improve execution or quality. A few are combining the two.
One initiative – lean manufacturing – attempts to acquire process efficiency by taking direct aim at unnecessary, non-value-added steps that represent waste. The other, Six Sigma, seeks quality gains through the manufacture of a better product or service at greater speed and reduced cost.
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June, 2009
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Keeping score
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Motivate behaviors to get the right things done right
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By: Doug Bengson
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My son Trevor’s coach-pitch baseball league is about to embark on a radical change of policy – one that Trevor has not experienced in his brief career in youth sports. The radical change is (are you sitting down?) they are going to keep score! Wait just a minute. Isn’t the golden rule of early childhood sports about not keeping score and just letting kids have fun? Have our league officials considered what irreversible damage this could do to these fragile young egos? Or have they finally accepted the reality that the kids and parents are already keeping score, so we might as well acknowledge reality.
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