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Prioritizing Sustainability Topics
Michelle Miller, Senior Sustainability & Product Stewardship Specialist, Appvion Operations, Inc. By Michelle Miller, Senior Sustainability & Product Stewardship Specialist, Appvion Operations, Inc. With so many different topics in sustainability, it’s hard to know where to start sometimes. You have…
Promega’s Corporate Responsibility Journey
Questions by Mark McDermid, Sustainability Consultant, WMEP & WBSC Answers by Corey Meek, Corporate Responsibility Lead, Promega Corporation Why and how did you get started on your sustainability journey? Environmental stewardship has been part of Promega since the early days…
Sustainability Driven Innovation
By Mark McDermid, Sustainability Consultant Mark McDermid, Sustainability Consultant Mark Twain once quipped “The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated”. Similarly, reports of the demise of sustainability are also quite exaggerated. Sustainability-driven innovation may be a key to…
Solutions For Workforce Challenges In Manufacturing
For many years, Wisconsin manufacturers struggled to find qualified workers. Now, they are having difficulty finding merely attracting any employees. George BureauWMEP, Vice President Consulting Services “This issue really started to build in the mid to late 1990s. At that…
Technology Transfer Acceleration by the MEP National Network
By: Brian A. Weiss From my standpoint, technology transfer is not easy, especially when attempting to introduce a new capability or technology into the manufacturing sector. Smaller manufacturers in particular present unique environments and challenges that must be appropriately understood if…
Cybersecurity and Industry 4.0 – What You Need to Know
This blog is part one of a series on cybersecurity and Industry 4.0. Credit: iStock/monsitj This morning my favorite local morning news program had an interesting segment on new slang words and what they mean. While the definitions were probably not…