Impact Dakota Blog is a blog dedicated to supporting North Dakota’s manufacturing community improve People, Purpose, Processes and Performance. Entries provide information on opportunities, new ideas, quick tips, celebrations of success, and well, frankly, anything to help you become a better manufacturer.
The number of individuals earning degrees in engineering has increased steadily over the past decade, and those numbers will only continue to grow. In particular, one subdiscipline of engineering is looking ever more appealing to students: manufacturing engineering.
Are you wondering how best to apply artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven analytics to your business?
They call it the “Not So Heavy Metal” tour. It’s a lighthearted effort by Minnesota-based Alexandria Industries to introduce middle and high school students — as well the general public — to manufacturing.
Each year, Manufacturing Day gives nearly 300,000 youth and their parents a powerful opportunity to see firsthand how they can create a bright future for themselves and their community through a career in modern manufacturing. Thanks to impactful events held by thousands of manufacturers across the country, those efforts are working.
August 23, 2018 represents a milestone in the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Thirty years ago, on this date in 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act (Public Law 100-418). Section 5121 established the Regional Centers for the Transfer of Manufacturing Technology and the Assistance to State Technology Programs, the precursors to today’s MEP.
This article originally appeared on advancedmanufacturing.org. Guest blog post by Elliot Forsyth, Vice President of Business Operations at the Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center, part of the MEP National NetworkTM.
With only seven weeks to go until October 5 (our target date for this year’s Manufacturing Day), it’s a good time to start developing a plan for how you intend to promote your event to important audiences such as students and parents, local media, and customers.
Seasoned business owners, international sales managers and export professional know that implementing and executing an effective global strategy is key to gaining market share and increasing revenue overseas. But if your strategy is missing relationship development and management, then you are unlikely to succeed.
Demand for technological, social and emotional, and higher cognitive skills will rise by 2030. How will workers and organizations adapt?
On August 23 members of CME Manitoba (Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters, Manitoba Division) will be visiting two of North Dakota's leading manufacturers. With assistance from Impact Dakota, North Dakota’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership, representatives from CME Manitoba had an opportunity to learn about a number of area companies and selected Steffes of Grand Forks, and Cardinal IG of Fargo, for showcasing during their annual tour event.