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What Can America Do About Critical Shortages?
How foreign control threatens American innovation and survival.
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Product Development
Serendipity Is No Accident: What the Post-it Teaches Us About "Luck"
When curiosity meets preparation, ordinary mistakes transform into revolutionary innovations
June 26, 2025
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Operations
Solving Manufacturing's Skills Crisis Through Strategic Configuration
Unlock manufacturing's hidden knowledge before experienced workers retire forever.
June 26, 2025
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Why an Obsession with Cost Is Damaging Your Profitability and Handicapping Growth
It's time to confront the demon.
June 16, 2025
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Operations
Training and Lost Skills Need to Be the Manufacturing Industry's Top Priority
We've lost more than 400,000 skilled workers and it takes 8,000 hours to train a new one.
May 30, 2025
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Blogs
The Best Way to Finance New Capital Equipment Purchases for Manufacturers
There are many ways to fund equipment purchases, and each comes with its own advantages and disadvantages.
April 21, 2025
Top Headlines
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IEN Newsletters Return July 7
June 27, 2025
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What Manufacturers Must Do to Survive the New Economy
April 16, 2025
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The Trump Tariff Firestorm
April 7, 2025
Gen Z
Boomers and GenX Business Leaders Are Making a Big Mistake
April 1, 2025
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Improving Stakeholder Coordination in Manufacturing
December 19, 2024
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How Productivism Can Reverse the Unacceptable Erosion of American Manufacturing
December 18, 2024
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HUB Analytics, Increasing Warehouse Efficiency Without Increasing Overhead
November 13, 2024
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Will Artificial Intelligence Live Up to the Hype?
November 4, 2024
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How to Improve Your Chances of Profiting from the CPG Industry
October 28, 2024
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How Manufacturers Can Secure Financing For Automation Upgrades
October 28, 2024
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Are Your Products Competitive?
October 22, 2024
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Why Automotive Manufacturers Should Rethink Over-Reliance on Resellers and Invest in Direct Marketing Strategies
October 15, 2024
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Today in Manufacturing has a new podcast brought to you by the editors of Industrial Media. In each episode, we discuss the five biggest stories in manufacturing, and the implications they have on the industry moving forward.
May 1, 2025
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Blogs
It's Time to Revoke China's Status
After 23 years of cheating, it's obvious that China cannot or will not stop its predatory mercantilism.
September 4, 2024
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Blogs
Money for Access
The evolution of lobbying is one of the most important transformations in business and politics since the Gilded Age.
August 5, 2024
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Blogs
Top Trends in Digital Marketing for the Manufacturing Industry
Today's manufacturers benefit significantly from an advanced, up-to-date understanding of digital marketing trends and a strategy that responds to those trends appropriately.
July 26, 2024
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Blogs
10 Essential Marketing Metrics for Product Manufacturing
There are countless metrics that manufacturers might monitor, and not all of them are equally useful.
July 19, 2024
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Blogs
Product Marketing Managers in the Industrial Space
The product marketing manager is a position that’s increasingly common in the industrial world, working hand-in-hand with the product manager to ensure marketplace success.
May 21, 2024
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Operations
Be Prepared to Brief Your Prototype Aluminum Casting Supplier
A prototype print can be complete with all the detailed specifications for the part yet fail to communicate a very critical piece of information.
February 27, 2023
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Blogs
Is a 40-year Battery Life a Reality?
Lithium thionyl chloride (LiSOCLâ‚‚) batteries can power remote wireless devices for up to 40 years.
November 30, 2022
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Blogs
Preventing Costly Breakdowns: Tips to Increase Efficiency and Extend V-Belt Life
It's vital to select the ideal V-belt for your specific application.
November 10, 2022
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Blogs
6 Challenges Facing Manufacturers When They Go Direct to Consumer
If a DTC channel is not properly managed, the cons could easily outweigh the pros.
May 24, 2022
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Blogs
Bridging the Skills Chasm by Highlighting Stories of Alternate Career Paths
The most effective way to bridge the skills chasm could be to educate teachers, mentors, parents and students on how far the industry has come.
February 17, 2022
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Operations
What the New OSHA-Mandated Vaccine Requirements Really Mean for Large Employers
Fred Mendelsohn explains the details of the mandate for businesses with at least 100 employees and what must be done to ensure compliance.
November 11, 2021
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Automation
Automation Sees a Path as Labor Shortages Persist
Robot sales have increased considerably.
August 23, 2021
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Operations
Silver Linings to Outlast Pandemic
It’s the little things, right?
May 10, 2021
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Advanced Mfg
A New Administration, and a New Era for Manufacturing
Here's how policy changes could evolve manufacturing into a disruption-proof and disruptive-growth industry.
February 3, 2021
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