Today’s business environment is experiencing an unprecedented siege of outside influences such as the global pandemic, industry consolidation, supply chain interruption, complicated import/export market dynamics, and labor dynamics never before exper...

Currently, there is no sector or business unaffected by COVID-19. In Pennsylvania, there are roughly 14,000 small and medium sized manufacturers facing new and unique sets of problems in their attempt to survive or thrive. Like all types of businesse...

I recently watched a LEAN Enterprise Institute video on Safe, Smart Steps for Restarting Production. The presenters from GE Appliance and Herman Miller Performance provided a range of tactics on employee safety from curtains between assembly persons...

It is quite possible to be a fast-growing, profitable company and still end up insolvent; however, it is rare to find a company that is well-managed with an eye towards cash-flow and working capital to wind up in that position. 

It has been a long-sta...

PITTSBURGH, June 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The United Steelworkers (USW) union, along with other members and leaders of the labor-environmental partnership BlueGreen Alliance (BGA), today launched the group's ambitious agenda to rebuild American manuf...