Spring 2020

Featured Articles

Where Art Meets Manufacturing

Blue Rhino is a design fabricator that combines creativity with innovation.

Blending Old Processes with Advanced Technology

Herold Precision Metals thrived by embracing technological change while never forgetting that hard work and human ingenuity are its bread and butter.

Steely Resolve

Once ‘a lumberyard only with metal,’ Bemidji Steel has added precision capabilities that should attract a nationwide base of customers.

Iron University

Alliant Castings’ Tom Renk is using an innovative training program and other concepts to reinvest in his people and lift up his company.

Taking the Elevator to the Top

For Minneapolis entrepreneur Jashan Eison, his business is personal.

Innovations

Four Questions: Mike Seymour

Mike Seymour, president, Alexandria Technical and Community College.

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Off the Radar

Prominent economist tells manufacturers that reforming the state’s pension and civil service systems is critical to future prosperity.

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Purr-sistence

How a St. Paul entrepreneur purr-severes through potential cat-astrophes.

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Garbage In, Garbage Out

The importance of optimization before automation.

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The Differentiator

Liberty Clark finds tremendous value in its ISO certification.

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Learn and Adapt

By watching market trends, Lowell, Inc. has evolved from providing parts for hard drives to making high-precision parts for implantable medical devices.

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Charting the Paper(less) Trail

Jones Metal proudly purges paper from its manufacturing processes.

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Editorial

Holistic Strategy

Manufacturers have learned they can no longer react their way to success.

The Final Word

Below the Surface

The results of our annual State of Manufacturing® survey invariably surprise us by revealing insights from beneath the surface.