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Kristin McLane

The Structural Walls of Your Shop

This week, a neighbor's landscaping project got me thinking about how important it is to have the...

When an Alarm is not an Alarm

Opening the garage door recently, I heard an alarm. A beeping noise coming from my car. Never a...

Confirmation Bias in Your Shop

It’s not often that we quote ancient Greek playwrights, but this morning I’m thinking about...

Everything is on Target, Until it's not.

You go to the morning meeting and you hear the stats. The team tells you everything’s on track. You...

The Black Hole that is Manufacturing

Last week, we all learned about Sagittarius A-star, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way....

How to Buy a Manufacturing Software Tool - Part 4

Manufacturers today are hurting. There's no doubt. Whether you’re growing or not, you are working...

How to Buy a Manufacturing Software Tool - Part 3

We’re talking about how to buy a Manufacturing Software tool. Deciding you need one may be the easy...

How to Buy a Manufacturing Software Tool - Part 2

If you have scrap, late shipments, overruns, inventory shortages, and operator workflow issues and...

How to Buy a Manufacturing Software Tool

We are halfway through the issues we typically see in manufacturing that we need to solve for our...

Why You Need a Manufacturing Software Tool to Manage Your Inventory - Part 2

Almost every manufacturer has the bulk of their expenses tied up in facilities, people, and...

Why You Need a Manufacturing Software Tool to Manage Your Inventory

Whether you are a large, multinational manufacturer or a job shop with just a dozen people, your...

Why You Need a Manufacturing Software Tool for your Schedule - Part 2

Wasted time is primarily a lack of alignment between your people, the work you need them to do, and...

Why You Need a Manufacturing Software Tool to Manage Scrap

We’ve talked about waste in your manufacturing facility stemming from misconnected or even...

Why You Need a Manufacturing Software Tool for your Schedule

In our previous blog, we talked about your people; this is a resource that is finite, moving, and...

Why You Need a Manufacturing Software Tool for your People

Last time, we talked about how we often we waste our biggest resource – our people. If you find...