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Bonnell Industries, Inc
Trucking equipment parts manufacturer undergoes a lean transformation to streamline processes and eliminate waste, resulting in improved quality, productivity, and cost savings.
Lean Manufacturing Operations
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Chicago Lighthouse Industries
AI enabled smart inventory management and control platform allows for greater organization and usage of data, enhanced ordering, reduced cost, and improved productivity.
AILean Manufacturing OperationsTechnology
Blogs
DRIVE BIG CHANGE: Transforming Leadership and Culture Through Team Coaching
In team coaching, the coach walks alongside leaders, using their language to facilitate the dialogue and help them visualize future success and obstacles.
Coaching & Development Leadership
Success Stories
IFH Group
Leadership development program grooms new leaders to improve collaboration and problem solving, and effectively manage change as the company grows.
Coaching & Development Leadership
Webinar Recordings
SIMPLIFY THE PROCESS: The Power of Configurators for Manufacturers Webinar
Learn how product configuration allows your customers, sales team members, and distributors to accurately configure, price, and quote your products, from anywhere they do business.
Quality ManagementSafety Operations
Blogs
The True Cost of Turnover
How to calculate your company’s true cost of turnover.
Human Resources Workforce
Blogs
BUILD YOUR TEAM: Career Pathways in Manufacturing
The new Career Pathways in Manufacturing program aids companies in recruiting, succession planning, and developing the workforce of the future.
Apprenticeships Workforce
Blogs
The 6 Basics You Need for Successful Marketing
Here are 6 basics that every business needs for successful marketing, plus how we help you succeed with each!
Customer EngagementMarketing & Sales Growth
Blogs
Strategic Planning and Execution: The Guidepost for Business Success
Strategic Planning and Execution in the simplest terms is defined as, “setting overall goals for your business and developing a plan to achieve them.
Strategy
Success Stories
Wagner Machine Co.
Champaign precision machine shop improves quality and processes, and sees an increase in new customers after achieving dual certifications for ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100D.
Quality Management Operations
Blogs
Build Bench Strength: Developing Your Talent Succession Plan
Simply put, Succession Planning is maximizing your workforce potential.
Coaching & DevelopmentSuccession Planning LeadershipStrategy
Blogs
The Gemba Walk: 3 Fundamental Characteristics of the Bones of Gemba
Great Gemba Walks become a focused process whereby leadership engages with various parts of the organization
Lean Manufacturing Operations
Blogs
How to Translate Lean Principles Into Your Office Functions
Let’s look at some examples of how lean concepts can help reduce variability in office functions.
Lean Manufacturing Operations
Blogs
Using Technology to Capture Standardized Work via the TWI-JI Format
This article focused on technology as well as Training Within Industry – Job Instruction (TWI-JI) module to capture standardized work.
Human ResourcesLean Manufacturing OperationsWorkforce
Success Stories
Bourn and Koch, Inc.
Machine tool manufacturer converts tribal knowledge into standard work using industry 4.0 technologies and sees improvement in workforce development, efficiencies, and the bottom line.
Lean ManufacturingSuccession Planning OperationsStrategyTechnology
Success Stories
Quad City Engineering, Co.
East Moline machine shop improves business processes, boosts productivity, and attracts new customers after becoming ISO 9001:2015 certified.
Quality Management Operations
SUPPLY CHAIN CENTER Go to Supply Chain Center
Discover Reliable Suppliers and Strengthen Your Supply Chain
Our cutting-edge supply chain center is designed to connect Illinois manufacturers with suppliers across the United States. Tailored specifically to support the Buy America Initiative, this initiative fosters local sourcing and empowers manufacturers to access a diverse network of reliable suppliers.
Career Pathways in Manufacturing
We created Career Pathways in Manufacturing to strengthen workforce and economic competitiveness, securing a resilient economy for the future.