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Barbara Jorgensen

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Barbara Jorgensen

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Barbara Jorgensen has been writing about the manufacturing industry for 20 years.

ARTICLES BY Barbara Jorgensen

Channel Partners Help Get Your Product to Market

If you're a manufacturer and you need to get your products to market, you’ll probably want to use secondary channels.

Big manufacturers are hitting a speed bump

According to market researcher iSuppli, the large combined size of the $305 billion Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) and Original Design Manufacturing (ODM) businesses make it difficult to achieve significant percentage growth in revenue

What to do with factory downtime

Do you just turn the lights off and send people home, or do you figure out ways to utilize excess capacity?

Where Manufacturers Can Find Recall Guidelines

If a problem is discovered via government testing, a manufacturer may face a number of consequences.

Manufacturers: How Do You Handle Recalls?

A call or an e-mail about a recall will go a long way toward goodwill and your company's professionalism

How to Add Value and Raise Profits

Manufacturers that see their role as just churning out products may be able to add a service component to their business and actually charge for that service.

Bogus Goods Still Dogging Manufacturers

If it's that easy to counterfeit computer chips, what else is out there?

The fringe benefits of going green

One grocery chain estimated they tossed out $1 of produce per day, per foot of produce case. Energy-savings efforts reduced this by 75%.

There's still demand for "unique"

Rather than stamping out baskets that can be made anywhere in the world, this manufacturer offered a unique product that apparently is distinctive and still in high demand.

The bloom is off the rose

The American Chamber of Commerce reports U.S. manufacturing companies are pulling out of China because of rising labor costs