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Is It Time for Your Manufacturing Business to Offer an Apprenticeship Program?

Is It Time for Your Manufacturing Business to Offer an Apprenticeship Program?

Within the last few years, registered apprenticeship programs have become a growing part of national, state, and regional workforce planning strategies, making them a strong option for building a talent pipeline with advanced skills to operate new and emerging technologies. As industries like agriculture, health care, cybersecurity, manufacturing and more
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How Small and Medium Manufacturers Can Adopt Innovation 4.0 Without Breaking the Bank

How Small and Medium Manufacturers Can Adopt Innovation 4.0 Without Breaking the Bank

Big manufacturers have the money and resources to embrace the many different technologies and capabilities that make up Innovation 4.0, while small and medium businesses may be challenged to simply keep the day-to-day going in an uncertain economic environment, much less take on the task of investing time and resources
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Why Your Business Needs to Focus on ESG Planning Right Now

Why Your Business Needs to Focus on ESG Planning Right Now

Later this year, new rules are expected to be issued, standardizing what and how large public companies report on ESG (environment, social and governance). Even if your business is not subject to these rules, it will likely feel the impact, so it’s a good idea to get acquainted with ESG
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Section 174 – Let’s Get You Up to Date

Section 174 – Let’s Get You Up to Date

Elected officials, the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA), business leaders, and others were holding their collective breath waiting to see if debt ceiling negotiations would result in the repeal or alleviation of Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 174 changes, but no such luck. So, IRC Section 174 –
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What If We Already Know How to Solve the Labor Crisis?

What If We Already Know How to Solve the Labor Crisis?

Survey after survey is showing the same thing – businesses need to get back to basics to create the type of work environment that attracts and keeps employees. With almost 50% of employees looking for a new job in the first half of 2023 (Solutions, 2022), creating a workplace that attracts
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5G Gaining Traction Among Large Manufacturers; Middle Market Companies Are Next

5G Gaining Traction Among Large Manufacturers; Middle Market Companies Are Next

For years now, there has been a lot of discussion about the transformative powers 5G will have on manufacturing and the world. There have also been numerous discussions questioning whether its capabilities have been overexaggerated. As we enter year five of the discussion and transformation, it looks like 5G is
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Is Manufacturing in a Recession?

Is Manufacturing in a Recession?

For the last several months, numerous reports have tried to answer the same question: “Is manufacturing in a recession?” Just when we think we know the answer, something changes. In January, the National Association of Manufacturers shared the results of its Outlook Survey for the fourth quarter of 2022. Results
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5 Different Ways to Address the Talent Shortage in Manufacturing

5 Different Ways to Address the Talent Shortage in Manufacturing

Good people are hard to find. Keeping them is even harder. With an estimated 2.1 million unfilled manufacturing positions in the U.S. by 2030 according to the National Association of Manufacturing, manufacturing companies of all sizes need to take action now to attract and retain employees needed for business success
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