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Post-and-beam company returns to Vermont
A New York company that makes post and beam structures, founded in Vermont more than a decade ago, is returning to the state.
Lean Accounting? What's It All About?
by Brian H. Maskell and Bruce L. Baggaley
This article was featured in the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) newsletter, Target, Volume 22, Number 1.
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Vermont furniture factory comes back after nearly closing
Two years ago, Jon McNeill and Fred Musone bet that Vermont Tubbs, a furniture manufacturer with deep Vermont roots, had a chance. To make it work they had to retool manufacturing and retrain workers, flying in the face of long held industry standards.
The Green Supplier Network
Hoping to instill greener, cleaner practices in the nation's small and medium-sized manufacturers, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has launched the Green Suppliers Network Program.
Safety and Health Management Systems for Small Businesses
Safety & Health Management Systems for Small Businesses is a FREE classroom-quality, self-instructional, online training program designed to assist small- and medium-sized businesses.
Lean Manufacturing: Unexpected Benefits for Accident Prevention
Along with improved efficiency and productivity, lean manufacturing offers companies a path to improved safety. Safety managers need to know how to promote this powerful philosophy in their operations.
Q4'04 VMEC Newsletter
Check out the latest news, articles and other important information designed specifically for Vermont manufacturers.
Protecting Your Company’s Trade Secrets
By Chris Gannon, Sheehey Furlong & Behm P.C.
Q3'04 VMEC Newsletter
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Weak Links in the Defense Supply Chain
Small manufacturing firms key to future domestic defense production
Q2'04 VMEC Newsletter
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Charting the Supply Chain DNA
How do you develop an integrated operating system that can simultaneously improve working capital, enhance revenue and margin, and improve order-to-delivery predictability? One innovative approach is to select and configure a unique blend of capabilities and strategies, or "supply chain DNA," across the dimensions of process, information, cash, and organization. Here's a roadmap to executing that approach--and in the process, achieving all three benefits at once.
Q1'04 VMEC Newsletter
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Supply Chain Management – A Top Priority by Phil Schoepke
Over the last 10 years, “Supply Chain Management” has emerged as a top priority for manufacturing companies. Success stories from Dell, Walmart, and FedEx have pushed supply chain to the forefront of capabilities that best-performing companies must have. What is supply chain management and why is it important to Vermont companies?
Q2'03 VMEC Newsletter
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Q1'03 VMEC Newsletter
In This Issue:
- The Importance of Training
- New Tools for Total Productive Maintenance
- Maple Landmark Woodcraft Success Story
- And more...
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Q4'02 VMEC Newsletter
In This Issue:
- What is Lean Manufacturing?
- Learn About Value Stream Mapping
- Advanced Illumination Success Story
- And more...
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Should You Relocate Manufacturing Operations to Asia?
The Sound of All Hands Clapping
Using Recognition to Build a Better Organization
The Eight Best Practices for Improved Energy Effeciency
Reprinted from the Energy Efficiency Toolkit for Manufacturers, published by the Manufacturing Institute.
Thinking Strategically About Supply Management
Strategic supply management is about much more than negotiating lower prices for office supplies or using state-of-the-art tools like Internet-based auctions or exchanges. Rather, it means finding ways to use supplier capabilities to help drive the top line. Here's how some leading companies have used sourcing in an attempt to add value to their operations...and assure their future business success.
American Family Business Survey
The 1,143 companies responding to the MassMutual Financial Group/Raymond Institute American Family Business Survey lend a number of insights into the critical challenges facing family businesses.
Size Does Matter: Small Manufacturers Are Different Than Large Manufacturers
There is a difference. And size does matter. Small manufacturers perform and operate differently than their large manufacturing counterparts. How different do small and large manufacturing firms perform? And what accounts for the disparity?
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