The Manufacturer
Fall, 2009

In this Issue...

What I've Learned...
Laura Grondin, President & CEO, Hartford Technologies
The recession has in unexpected ways helped us. We used to be primarily a Tier 1 supplier, but as they outsourced more we became a Tier 2 supplier of the same products. In the process, we've discovered more customers and more end users, whom we would have never had access to before. Read on >>

Training
Tom Southworth, CONNSTEP
If you were to do a search of company mission statements you would probably find many, if not a majority, of companies make the claim that their employees are their most important asset or something to that effect. It's a nice statement, but is it really true?  Read on >>

Virtual Pull Systems, Part II
Don Guild, Synchronous Management
This is the first installment of a two-part series - an introduction to the concepts of Virtual Pull - and how to size kanban supermarkets.  Read on >> 

Articles courtesy of allbusiness.com
How Should Smaller Companies Use Competitive Bidding?
How to Manage Your Small Business Out of the Credit Crisis 

Upcoming Training & Networking Events
  WEBCAST:  Single Point Lessons/Sharing Best Practices for Equipment Productivity & Reliability
  Lean Office Workshop
  Value Stream Mapping (VSM) Workshop
  Understanding Internet Marketing & Its Importance to Manufacturing
   WEBCAST:  Helping Organizations OPT for Change
  Effective Steering Committees
  Training Within Industry (TWI) Job Instruction Training
  Structured Root Cause Analysis