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15 Action Items Factory Owners Can Do to Attract a Younger Workforce

Keeping your manufacturing business in good shape means continually hiring and training new workers as others quit or retire. But with the drop in younger applicants to manufacturing jobs, you and other managers run the risk of retiring your company out of existence. It's imperative that you start attracting younger people to your company so you can continue to have a strong workforce. Here are 15 things you can do to get that process rolling now.

Patrick O’Rahilly
By Patrick O’Rahilly
on Nov 22, 2016 7:00 AM. 13 min read time
 
15 Action Items Factory Owners Can Do to Attract a Younger Workforce

Keeping your manufacturing business in good shape means continually hiring and training new workers as others quit or retire....

Patrick O’Rahilly
By Patrick O’Rahilly
on Nov 22, 2016 7:00 AM
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3 Robot Farmhands Disrupting Rural Life

While food prices continue to rise, there is no denying the need for affordable investments that will keep the costs of food...

Charlotte Shea
By Charlotte Shea
on Oct 24, 2016 7:00 AM
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Increasing Productivity in Manufacturing: Optimizing the Cost of Raw Materials

While raw materials are usually an easy target to cost reduction and optimization, you should look at the other variables...

Karine Simard
By Karine Simard
on Oct 18, 2016 7:00 AM
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Increasing Productivity in Manufacturing: Optimizing Energy Consumption

Another factor that you probably want to look at to improve your productivity is your energy consumption. Of course, some...

Karine Simard
By Karine Simard
on Sep 29, 2016 7:00 AM
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Increasing Productivity in Manufacturing: Optimizing the Production Layout

Another key aspect to increasing productivity is making sure production flows smoothly. One of the many aspects ensuring this...

Karine Simard
By Karine Simard
on Sep 21, 2016 7:00 AM
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Virtual Reality Is Coming to Manufacturing - Are You Ready?

When we think of virtual reality it’s hard to imagine anything besides a big clunky headset and a person looking somewhat...

Charlotte Shea
By Charlotte Shea
on Sep 19, 2016 7:00 AM
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Increasing Productivity in Manufacturing: Maximizing Machine Runtime

Another important factor that you want to look at is your machine runtime. It is important that your machines are running as...

Karine Simard
By Karine Simard
on Sep 15, 2016 7:00 AM
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Increasing Productivity in Manufacturing: Quality Control

Quality control is another factor that you want to look at when analyzing productivity in your plant. I would say that there...

Karine Simard
By Karine Simard
on Sep 05, 2016 7:00 AM
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Increasing Productivity in Manufacturing: Optimizing Labor Costs

Since your goal is to increase production; you are going to try to keep your labor costs as low as possible. There are several...

Karine Simard
By Karine Simard
on Aug 31, 2016 7:00 AM
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