2020 is indeed a year of realities for the United States, not just because of the pandemic. The year has successfully revealed all of the weaknesses of the American economy and the health sector. Due to rising labor costs and the overvaluing of the United States...
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Manufacturing Productivity Declines in the First Quarter
With Covid-19 still ravaging the world larges economy, productivity is currently at it lowest since 2015. The manufacturing sector has witnessed series of job cuts and production hours reduced as a response to the stay at home and shelter in place orders in the United...
Will COVID-19 Accelerate the Adoption of AI and Robotics
COVID-19 is the biggest disruption the manufacturing sector has experienced in the 21st century. Unlike other forms of disasters that affects the infrastructure, the pandemic is targeting the human resources of businesses. This is why the study by Global Data is...
Choosing the Best Supply Chain Fallback Plan
At this point in the history of human race, we all have a lesson to learn about making plans. Manufacturing businesses are not left out of this moral lesson class; their lack of foresight by dealing with only a single supplier through the production chain. Not just a...
Small Business Assistance During Coronavirus Outbreak
Nothing has prepared small business orders of what is to happen to them in the event of a pandemic. In ways more than one, the coronavirus pandemic is affecting the viability, profitability, and continuity of small businesses. This phenomenon is not just peculiar to...
How Companies are Transitioning Manufacturing Plants for PPE
With the spread of Covid-19 at its peak in the United States and other part of the world, there is a need for ample production of Personal Protective Equipment. To meet up with the demands for PPE, companies are shifting the gaze of their manufacturing plants towards...
Is Your Business Essential? Why Manufacturing Is An Essential Business During US Stay In Place Orders
Across the United States and globally, authorities are clamping down on people’s movement as a modus operandi to control the spread of Covid-19. Whether it’s a stay-at-home order, or a shelter in place, the directives differs from cities to cities across the US. This...
US On Lockdown: How Employers Should Handle Safety at The Workplace
More than the modern world has ever experienced, a pandemic has successfully lead to the shutdown of not just the economy but also the mobility. Currently, the rage of Corona Virus has forced numerous countries to declare total lock down. It all started with China but...
Stock Market Crash and It Influence on Manufacturing Sector
What is being referred to as Black Monday in the financial circle did not just happen out of the blue. It’s one of the consequences of the viral spread of COVID-19, which has affected not less than 100 countries with new countries joining the fray. We’ve also seen...
Opinions on Centralizing Purchasing
Switching to centralized purchasing is one of the go-to solutions for companies. This denotes that one region will be in control over all or many most of the purchasing decisions of the firm. The issue with decentralized purchasing is that every region possesses its...