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Manufacturing Innovation Blog

Bringing It All Together

Recently, I had the opportunity to attend a Manufacturers Roundtable organized by the Oregon MEP and held at Welch Allyn, a medical device manufacturer and MEP

15 a Day...

15 a day. That is how many manufacturing establishments have closed every day (including weekends and holidays) over the last 13 years. The journey to getting

Making Good Use of Some Downtime

In September I heard about Making in America – From Innovation to Market, a new book by Suzanne Berger and her colleagues at MIT. I finished the book with some

Have It Your Way

One of the most appealing characteristics of a capitalist society is the emphasis on consumer demand to drive product and service development. Want your burger

MFG Is Who We Are

Toward the end of summer, I was part of an assembled mass of governors and manufacturers at a Walmart-led summit in Florida. My boss, the Secretary of Commerce