Companies may run into challenges when trying to optimize their inventory management. What are some of the best ways to improve inventory management in the manufacturing industry? In a recent chat for USA Manufacturing Hour on Twitter, Host Pavel Stepanov from VirtuDesk in Washington, led a discussion about optimizing inventory management.

Employee Training in Manufacturing

Employee training is an important process manufacturers need to keep in mind to benefit both themselves and their employees. Tuning your employees’ skills while also helping them to feel wanted and appreciated at your company are both results of employee training. People want to feel that they are growing in their position and having an employee training program can aid in this feeling for employees. Along with this, new employees can get the proper introduction into the company and have a clear idea of what is expected from them.

It is important for businesses to welcome feedback from their employees/team. Getting feedback is a great opportunity for growth. Does your company have the proper set up for feedback? In a recent chat for USA Manufacturing Hour on Twitter, Host Kelley Plats from North American Coating Laboratories in Ohio, led a discussion about getting feedback from employees.

Rust out is about employees being dissatisfied with how they are treated at the workplace. Employees are dissatisfied when they feel that their work is not getting recognition. How can rust out being prevented or resolved? In a recent chat for USA Manufacturing Hour on Twitter, Host Valerie Weber from Monofrax in New York, led a discussion about rust out problems and solutions.

Let’s talk about the vast field of fasteners. In a recent chat for USA Manufacturing Hour on Twitter, hosts Jason and Missy Moorefield, coworkers & spouses at Southern Fasteners and Supply – a fastener distributor Headquartered in North Carolina, led a discussion on some of the most commonly used fasteners.

What is empowerment and how does it cultivate a productive culture?

What is an HMI Screen?

Generative AI refers to artificial intelligence algorithms that use existing content to create new content. In other words, it allows computers to abstract the underlying pattern, and then use that to generate similar content to what users input.This can have impact, both positive and negative, in business applications.

The Pump Act is a new law that makes changes to the Break Time for Nursing Mothers law, which required that employers provide reasonable break time and a private, non-bathroom space for lactating employees to pump milk during the workday.

Quiet quitting is basically doing the minimum requirements at a job. In the early 2020s quiet quitting emerged as a much-publicized trend in the US and elsewhere. There were a variety of factors in the workplace that influenced the trend. But some have questioned whether it’s even a new phenomenon. 

In a recent chat for USA Manufacturing Hour on Twitter, host Julie Gardner from Hourly – Insurance & Payroll in California led a discussion about quiet quitting and how to navigate some of the root causes in the workplace.