There is no precedent for the disruption in daily life and organizations driven by the COVID-19 pandemic. Manufacturers are no different: millions of workers and tens of thousands of executives and managers find themselves isolated and worried as they try to protect their health and that of loved ones and colleagues — not to mention...Read More

Early Equipment Management (EEM) is designed to connect the manufacturing and commercial goals in a manner that allows organizations to leverage the foundation that has been established through standardized processes. This methodology brings together all necessary functions at the appropriate time to effectively plan, design, manufacture (purchase) and start-up new equipment at the expected cost...Read More

The ABCs of Change Management in Manufacturing The Greek philosopher Heraclitus said, “The only constant in life is change.” Today we face more changes than our parents ever could have dreamed of. What does change do to a person? When the change is not handled correctly, people tend to do several things. First, people retreat...Read More

There are multiple signs that U.S. economic growth may be slowing from falling US Manufacturing growth to U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) growth declines and now the addition of the Covid 19 pandemic. As of September 2019, we have seen a 10-year low in manufacturing growth driven by drops in both new orders and export...Read More

Every manufacturing organisation feels the pain of losses in their operations: On average, 31% of plants lose 20% of more of their hours and inventory to scrap and rework. 41% of plants reported machine uptime rates of 70% or lower, leading to 30% losses in productivity for those organizations 31% of plants reported complete-and-on-time delivery...Read More

For the past month, Performance Solutions by Milliken has been working alongside our clients, metaphorically, to enable their Operational Excellence journey even as COVID-19 changed and continues to change the way we live and work. Our first concern is the protection of our Practitioners and our Clients’ employees based on latest understanding and guidance of the virus. Our second is continuing operations  so that we and...Read More