Summer 2020

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ISO: Get Ready to Rumble

Manufacturers look to ISO to prepare for the post-COVID economy.

Maintaining Purpose

Productive Alternatives and state caregivers plan return after coronavirus closures.

EyCatching Growth

Next Innovations hopes to exploit increasing demand for American-made products.

Don’t Get Siloed

A century-old Lake Lillian company succeeds by continually diversifying its range of products to meet the demands of its customers.

Upheaval

An early 2020 State of Manufacturing® survey provides a fascinating look at manufacturers’ attitudes both before and after the COVID national emergency declaration.

Enterprise Minnesota magazine summer 2020

Innovations

A Pandemic Success Story

How Jim Beam bourbon helped change everything—but not in the way you might think.

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Armed with a Plan

Training Within Industry helps Pequot Tool & Manufacturing prepare to anticipate the unknown.

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Show, Don’t Tell

A community museum gives students a hands-on chance to experience manufacturing.

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The Hunt Continues (or Should)

Expert: COVID-19 is no excuse to end your search for quality employees.

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Showing Their Work

Engage Technologies uses ISO certification to show that many of its processes were already in place.

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Kill Shares Survey

Enterprise Minnesota’s CEO shares State of Manufacturing® data before national audience of state legislators.

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Printing Success

O’Hearn instilled an American-style management culture in the Minnesota office of an Italian manufacturer—and sales soared.

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Editorial

Doubling Down on ISO

Manufacturers use the system’s disciplines to prepare for the eventual comeback of a strong and predictable marketplace.

The Final Word

Making Lemonade

Our postponed State of Manufacturing® data will explain much about how manufacturers responded to the COVID economy.